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Enrolled Agent Exam [Part 2] 97, Farm Inventory and Crop Insurance Proceeds
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This podcast is made by Ran Chen, who holds an EA license, Insurance and Securities licenses (Series 6, 63, 65), and the CFP® designation. He is passionate about opening access to high-quality exam preparation resources and helping learners prepare more effectively for professional certification exams.
In this episode you will learn:
- Cash-method farmers are generally not required to maintain or use inventories.
- Cash-basis farmers can elect to defer crop insurance proceeds for one year if they normally would have sold the crop in the following year.
- The one-year deferral election also applies to federal payments received due to natural disasters that damage crops.
- Gain from selling excess livestock of any kind due to weather in a federal disaster area can be postponed for one year under IRC Section 451(g).
- Gain from selling excess draft, breeding, or dairy livestock due to weather can be deferred for a two-to-four-year replacement period under IRC Section 1033(e).
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