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What Is Farming? Does Reporting Matter?, George Patrick
What Is Farming? Does Reporting Matter?, George Patrick
Rural Tax Education
Many rural families combine a number of economic activities to generate additional family income. Farm production activities may be combined with full-time employment in farming or in the non-farm sector. Part-time employment may involve several seasonal jobs during the year or a part-time job throughout the year.
Generally, an employed individual will receive a Form W-2 reporting the wages received and taxes withheld. In other situations, the individual may be contracted to perform a specified task or provide a service and properly receive a Form 1099-MISC. The individual generally has responsibility for paying the self-employment tax as well as the …
Farm, Farming And Who’S A Farmer For Tax Purposes, Guido Van Der Hoeven
Farm, Farming And Who’S A Farmer For Tax Purposes, Guido Van Der Hoeven
Rural Tax Education
Meeting the qualifications of farming and being a farmer under the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) allows for special benefits; however, not all agricultural producers meet these qualifications even if they are producing agricultural products, which is why it is vitally important for operators of farms and their tax professionals to understand the IRS tax definitions of farm, farming and farmer. One of the benefits of being classified as a farmer is the exclusion of certain receipts from income as in the case of conservation payments as allowed under IRC Section 175.
Operators of farming businesses may associate the term farmer …