That’s what the Tax Court said to a taxpayer who loaned his brother $285,000 to start a scrap metal business. The loan went bad and the taxpayer took a business loss on his Schedule C. The loss was disallowed because he wasn’t in this scrap metal business; he merely provided funds to another business.
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