Topics covered include: Schedule C and C-EZ; Domestic production activities; Vacation home rules; Home office deduction; Farming activities. Upon completing this course, you should be able to: Complete Schedule C or C-EZ; Apply the deduction for domestic production activities; Utilize the vacation home rules; Figure meal and entertainment deductions, including applicable limitations; Figure the home office deduction; Determine deductible expenses in connection with investments and income-producing activities; Explain property depreciation, first-year expensing, bonus depreciation, and depreciation recapture; Determine how employer-paid expenses are treated; Identify expenses subject to amortization; Figure depletion deductions; Apply the limits on trade or business losses; Figure the amount of casualty and theft losses that can be deducted; Determine net operating losses; Determine whether a debt is a business or nonbusiness bad debt; Determine whether a nonbusiness bad debt is deductible; Apply the statute of limitations on bad debts; List special deductions for farming activities; Apply the passive activity loss rules to businesses and rental activities; Determine when losses from the rental of a home are deductible.