Business vs Non-Business Bad Debts: Dagres vs Commissioner Presents New Variations on an Old Theme
Abstract
In Dagres v. Commissioner, decided in March 211, the Tax Court considered the distinction between business bad debts and nonbusiness bad debts. This article discusses the particulars of Dagres, which presented some unusual issues, and it describes more generally why the distinction matters to investors and how we are supposed to tell the two categories of debt apart.
Keywords
Dagres v. Commissioner, Tax Court decision, business bad debt, nonbusiness bad debt, investments
Publication Date
2011
Document Type
Article
Place of Original Publication
Journal of Taxation of Investments
Publication Information
73 Journal of Taxation of Investments 1 (2011)
Repository Citation
Jensen, Erik M., "Business vs Non-Business Bad Debts: Dagres vs Commissioner Presents New Variations on an Old Theme" (2011). Faculty Publications. 484.
https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/484
