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The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing.
payer of gambling winnings. If you do and must make a section 481(a) adjust- day-to-day management or operations of
not have such an EIN, leave line D ment to prevent duplication of income. the activity. Work done as an investor
blank. A net negative section 481 adjust- includes:
• Studying and reviewing financial
Line E ment is generally taken into account in statements or reports on the activity,
the year of change. A net positive sec-
• Preparing or compiling summaries
Enter your business address. Show a tion 481(a) adjustment is generally taken or analyses of the finances or operations
street address instead of a box number. into account over a period of 4 years. In- of the activity for your own use, and
Include the suite or room number, if clude any net positive section 481(a) ad-
• Monitoring the finances or opera-
any. If you conducted the business from justments on line 6. If the net section tions of the activity in a nonmanagerial
your home located at the address shown 481(a) adjustment is negative, report it capacity.
on page 1 of your tax return, you do not in Part V.
have to complete this line. More information. For more informa- Participation by your spouse during
tion about changing your accounting the tax year in an activity you own can
Line F method and the section 481(a) adjust- be counted as your participation in the
ment, see the Instructions for Form activity. This rule applies even if your
Generally, you can use the cash method, 3115. Additional information is also spouse did not own an interest in the ac-
an accrual method, or any other method available in various revenue procedures. tivity and whether or not you and your
permitted by the Internal Revenue Code. See Rev. Proc. 2019-43 (and any subse- spouse file a joint return. However, this
In all cases, the method used must clear- quent revenue procedures modifying rule does not apply for purposes of de-
ly reflect income. Unless you are a small Rev. Proc. 2019-43) for a list of auto- termining whether you and your spouse
business taxpayer (defined later under matic changes, including a description can elect to have your business treated
Part III), you must use an accrual meth- of its effect on prior lists of automatic as a qualified joint venture instead of a
od for sales and purchases of inventory changes. Rev. Proc. 2019-43 is available partnership (see Qualified Joint Venture,
items. Special rules apply to long-term at IRS.gov/irb/ earlier).
contracts (see section 460 for details).
2019-48_IRB#RP-2019-43. For purposes of the passive activity
If you use the cash method, show all rules, you materially participated in the
items of taxable income actually or con- Line G operation of this trade or business activi-
structively received during the year (in If your business activity was not a rental ty during 2022 if you met any of the fol-
cash, property, or services). Income is activity and you met any of the material lowing seven tests.
constructively received when it is credi- participation tests, explained next, or the 1. You participated in the activity
ted to your account or set aside for you exception for oil and gas applies, check for more than 500 hours during the tax
to use. Also, show amounts actually paid the “Yes” box. Otherwise, check the year.
during the year for deductible expenses. “No” box. If you check the “No” box, 2. Your participation in the activity
However, if the payment of an expendi- this activity is passive. If you have a loss for the tax year was substantially all of
ture creates an asset having a useful life from a passive activity, see Limit on los- the participation in the activity of all in-
that extends beyond 12 months or the ses, later. If you have a profit from the dividuals (including individuals who did
end of the next tax year, it may not be rental of property to a nonpassive activi- not own any interest in the activity) for
deductible or may be deductible only in ty, see Recharacterization of Passive In- the tax year.
part for the year of the payment. See come in Pub. 925 to find out how to re-
chapter 1 of Pub. 535. 3. You participated in the activity
port the net income. for more than 100 hours during the tax
For amounts includible in income and year, and you participated at least as
deductible as expense under an accrual Material participation. For purposes much as any other person for the tax
method, see Pub. 538. of the seven material participation tests year. This includes individuals who did
listed later, participation generally in-
To change your accounting method, cludes any work you did in connection not own any interest in the activity.
you must generally file Form 3115. You with an activity if you owned an interest 4. The activity is a significant par-
may also have to make an adjustment to in the activity at the time you did the ticipation activity for the tax year, and
prevent amounts of income or expense work. The capacity in which you did the you participated in all significant partici-
from being duplicated or omitted. This work does not matter. However, work is pation activities for more than 500 hours
is called a section 481(a) adjustment. not treated as participation if it is work during the year. An activity is a “signifi-
Example. You change to the cash that an owner would not customarily do cant participation activity” if it involves
the conduct of a trade or business, you
method of accounting and choose to ac- in the same type of activity and one of participated in the activity for more than
count for inventoriable items in the same your main reasons for doing the work 100 hours during the tax year, and you
manner as non-incidental materials and was to avoid the disallowance of losses did not materially participate under any
supplies for the 2022 tax year. You ac- or credits from the activity under the of the material participation tests (other
crued sales in 2021 for which you re- passive activity rules. than this test 4).
ceived payment in 2022. You must re- Work you did as an investor in an ac-
port those sales in both years as a result tivity is not treated as participation un-
of changing your accounting method less you were directly involved in the

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