If you've ever wondered what taxes are owed money when a large jackpot in US casino and how you can deduct gambling losses, then this video will explain it to you. Now. Here'S my interview with Jean Scott. You have to pay taxes on everything you win in a casino the IRS likes everything reported every sort of gambling all and outta casinos, whether it's bingo lotteries, raffles I'll, whether you're playing in a casino on a cruise ship out in the ocean, whether you're in a Foreign country casino, whether you're in a Native American casino and the United States, the IRS is also concerned with online gambling, particularly but much to some people. Surprise.
It does not matter whether the gambling online is legal or illegal. The IRS does not make any difference. They want you to report all gambling in all places in the world or in cyberspace or legal or illegal. Do you have to report your gaming action to the IRS? Even if you are a net loser at the end of the year, the IRS wants to know all about your gambling action, and probably one of the biggest myth is. If you lose by the end of the year, you look at the whole year. You say I one sometimes I lost sometimes, but in the long run I'm a net loser people think they don't have to report. This is not true, because the IRS wants you to keep track each incident gambling, whether it's a session in a casino r1 and said that when you wan na the lottery or whatever - and they want you to keep a record - I love all of those separately. So, at the end of the year you will have lots of winning sessions or winning incidents, and then you'll have lots of losing sessions or times that you lost. The IRS specifically says in the instruction manual that you cannot reduce your wins by your losses and give a net total what the end of the year. What are the IRS's record-keeping Requirements this website? Because the IRS wants to know all of your action. The only way that you can fulfill their requirements is by keeping some sort of the gambling record. It might be a diary friends tense. I use a little booklet, that's a calendar and each day I gamble I put down where I gambled. What I played, whether I wan na /url of a the more technical people, might keep one in their smartphone or on their iPad or so forth. I some people have a lab rat computer records, but and that, at the end of the day, if you're ever audited, the IRS wants to know all your winning goals and all year losing days and, and that is how you report them on your income tax form. If you don't keep the gambling diary, can you estimate your wins and losses for the year? People who do not gamble too much light be able to get by with that? If they are %? Ah did particularly they couldn't get go back to the casinos where they gambled and they can get what we call a win-loss statement from each casino. If your gambling is not extensive, sometimes be IRS will accept that and on it, but on the whole, if you have fairly elaborate, a I record are: don't have fairly elaborate records. A the IRS is gonna, say those when lost eight months are very valuable. If they're not backed up by a diary or some other computer record, because their notoriously inaccurate their incomplete and if its machine play that your and doing, if you don't play with your players card in the casino, doesn't can't give you a an Acura when loss statement. Because they don't know how much you won or lost, how does the IRS know what you win, the IRS doesn't know every little gambling transactions have every person, that's gambling and the United States or wherever their camp link, but there are ways that the IRS can find Out and does one is, if you are a table, games player, there's not as much paperwork as if you're a machine player, but they're are rules and regulations that the casino has two keep paperwork when people cachet and by hand or cash and chips love a it Starts at three thousand for sure from ten thousand up that there's gonna be paperwork, but many casinos at it starts a lot earlier than that at three thousand. Now, when you're a machine player that there's a very specific the limit, if you play a machine and you get a jackpot, twelve hundred dollars or more, this is going to be generate at up document called a double A to G. You are going to get that add, there's nothing you can do about it and just as a note here, you better put that amount as part of your income, if not you're gonna get a letter so fast from the IRS and they're going to just assume That you forgot to put it on and they're gonna tax you on it anyway, so you might as well put it on and savon ot. What is the process when you win a taxable amount when you hit a jackpot of 12 hunter or more, the machine is going to lock up now, I I can say that in some casinos it will lock up on smaller jackpots, like a thousand dollars. That will not generated w/ 2gb, but starting at 1200 and above that's gon na generate a debit to GE said the machine locks up the employees. Some employees comes, and you have to show two things. You have to show your ID, and then you have to either show your Social Security card with your number or it depends on the casino you might just be able to give them your social security number verbally and sometimes they give you a piece, a paper to Write it down so that you don't have to say it verbally and maybe somebody around you would hear it % uh right. This presents a question and a lot of people's mind. They sat on what a whole. I don't want to carry my social security card. I, how did they know that the number I'm giving to you is correct? Well, they sometimes will have you they'll bring something called a Debian earning and on that you're right down your social security number you'll sign your name, which is your sway, ring that that is under oath, fierce wearing that bad is your social security number. Then that takes the casino off the hook by having a the a sending unit at false social security number and back to what happens next after they take care of all that, then they come and bring you back your money and that's the happy time. One note here: the IRS expects you to put all your gambling lens and whether you get paperwork or not, so just because you don't get W two g's, all your jackpots are under that 1200 threshold. That doesn't mean that you're not supposed to count those. What? If you don't want to give the casino your social security number, when you, when a taxable jackpot, you do not have to give the casino your social security number when you hit at twelve hundred dollar and above jackpot. However, if they're going to take 28 percent out at that jackpot and send it to the IRS - and you might say, okay well, that'll just be withheld. I there is a problem because they don't know who that jackpot is that 28 percent well just be lost to you and a related question today. Somebody says: well, I don't like to give my ID. Why do they need my ID well her? Why you need your ideas? They will not give you a jackpot and tail. They see ballot ideal at you can't get away with this no way. No, how is there more than one way to report your gambling wins and losses on your federal income tax return? We'Ve talked about what the IRS requires as far as record-keeping. Now, what happens when you go to fill out your income tax form at the end of the year? There are several different ways that you can handle your taxes. First, there's two main categories: there's recreational gamblers and thats most of the people I who gamble and then there are professional gamblers, do it differently. Let'S talk about the recreational first, the logical way and the way the IRS one said, as you would add up all your winning days and and one total and put that under on page one under other income. And then you would market a gambling winnings. Then here's where it divides, if you're a person who doesn't I have my, is then you're kinda stuck because if you itemize, you can put your losses as ms Elaine ES deduction. However, if you don't have a lot of other deductions, then you're gonna lose your automatic deduction, so it really puts up. I a low-income person. I in a bind, because what's going to happen, is let's say, a four thousand dollar Royle. I know dollar machine. You have to put that is income, but you play the rest of the year and you lost all that four thousand on a lot more, but you don't itemize. Well, then, you can't take anything off to deduct your not pay whatever bracket you're in you're gonna pay taxes on that whole four thousand dollars. Now, if somebody has a bigger income, they have allotted deductions. Maybe they have a mortgage that they a deducted a lot of other taxes and so forth. They could put that four thousand dollars is income and then, if they didn't have losses, a four thousand or more, they can deduct 4,000. Now, Nick, I know your next question is all right. Let'S say you, you won four thousand that one time but the rest a year you lost 6,000. Can you put the 6,000 as a deduction know? The IRS has a little rule here that you can't take more losses, then you won't so you can take the four thousand income and four thousand deductions, but that's all you can take that at least saves you from paying taxes on money that you didn't actually weekend In the long term that you lost in the long term, on the other hand, if you're a professional - and let me tell you it's very hard to get the IRS to accept you as a professional. But if you make a lot of money gambling, your kind of all time gambler and and your gambling a lot and high-stakes in fact, you're making your living or a good part if you're living gambling, then you file as a professional as a business. Then you would do a schedule C and your wins and losses would be on the schedule C, others the same rule, even with professionals. You can't take more losses than your weekends, but let's say you were a big gambler and you won 20,000 and your loss 30,000. I you can break you could break even you can't take that 30,000 loss against other I income, but then you don't have to put back twenty thousand. You want over on that page 1 under other income I'll. A lot of people would like to count themselves as professional Inc, a professional gamblers I, but the IRS - has really strict standards for this. Besides federal taxes, are there other kinds of taxes on gambling winnings? Once you had figured out how you should file on your federal return, you might think your troubles are over. No, not true, because if you are a resident of the state, are played in this state that floor now looking for new sources of income, they are now charging state tax and some have them go so far as to take that tax out right. When you hit the jackpot so frances, we worrisome a playing Indiana. We live in Nevada, we're not used to having money taken out of our jackpots in indiana. Every time we hit a jackpot over twelve hundred dollars, they took 3.4 percent out. This is that killer. For many many gamblers, because some states in the annie is 10 - that's where we used to live. That'S one reason why we live in Nevada. Now Indiana takes all your way ends just like the federal as income, but they don't allow you to deduct anything and so everything you we n is not peer winnings. Everybody knows that you had a at two thousand dollar jackpot new. You may have lost that whole thing by the end of the day, if you play long enough for at least by the end of the week in the month, so a lot of Midwest states and it's getting more clear across the United States. But the problem with this is, I like, if you play in indiana you're, not going to get that tax back. It'S gone now Brad and I get that tax back because we're professional gamblers and there's different rules for that. So you may say: well how do I know like another example is mississippi somebody else a I went to Mississippi and they took a tax out. They called it a at gambling's state tax, not a state income tax, and they say I can even get that back. That is true, that's what happens so every state has their own rules and they have sometimes different rules for somebody who lives in the stadium is a resident and for somebody who comes in and plays in that state, it's too long and complicated. I have a whole chapter, and this is it at time that I I guess I should mention my book - I'm not trying just to sell books, I'm trying to give information, but in this case I need to refer you to my book tax help for gamblers, because I have a whole chapter and then a whole list, I'm all the fifty states and how they handle gambling taxes, and everyone's a little bit different. All right. We mentioned federal taxes. We talked about state taxes, now there's a new wrinkle that some cities are going to start taxing gambling winnings. There are some new casinos in Ohio and almost all the cities where these news, casinos, are, are going to take out taxes or at least charge tax for city taxes, as well as state taxes and federal. So I and Yahoo at your gonna be stack and I think in the future you better check on this, because I, I think all the city's and the states are so broke these days. That they're looking for new sources of income and gambling is always a good hit because that's a syntax. If you wanna, learn more about me and my books, including tax help for gamblers, you may go to my website queena comstock com. There there's a summary of all my books and products and also you can order them there. You might want to say: oh well I'll what about things that happen in that tax world and its it's not in your book. It'S something new!
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