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Employee
March 4, 2019
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Profit based loans

  • March 4, 2019
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I have a friend in the large machinery business and he contacted me about expanding inventory. So we struck up a deal where he finds machinery, I wire him the money to purchase it and when it sells, he wires me back my initial money plus 50% of the profit.  Since these wires are in the 20k-70k range, I assume the IRS is getting notified and they're going to want to know what's going on. So my question is, how do I treat the profit from the "loans" for tax purposes?

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    Employee
    March 4, 2019

    You could treat some of it as interest but the rest should be treated as Schedule C income.

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