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...good news for Ponzi victims is that the IRS will allow the amount of the theft loss to include the investor's unrecovered investment, that is, the principle plus other investments minus withdrawals, but including "fictitious income" as reported in past years, according to Shulman...
...comments come in the wake of numerous Ponzi scheme crimes, most notably Bernard Madoff's $65 billion scam, which Shulman said was tragic but raised a "staggering array of tax and pension implications for the victims," many of whom have lost entire life savings and retirement accounts. (Read "Another Victim of the Ponzi Schemers...
...example, a victim were to receive from SIPC $200,000, that victim's net operating loss would be $750,000, which would be the number used on tax returns to go back five years and forward 20 years from 2008 to recover monies against taxes paid. (Read more about Ponzi schemes...
...York. "It looks like an easy way for the IRS to handle this, but some things will be given up," Goldstein said. Those include, he says, the right to recovery by mitigation ("mitigating" or amending closed returns), claim of rights (a tax credit equal to taxes paid on Ponzi income to original investment), and amending returns based solely on phantom income (removing Ponzi or phantom income going back three years...
...said. There are an estimated 4,800 people and/or funds who invested directly with Madoff and many more thousands who invested through pension and "feeder funds." In addition, there are an estimated tens of thousands invested with R. Allen Stanford's alleged $8 billion Ponzi and in the dozen or so Ponzis that have surfaced in the last three months...