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This answer is incorrect. You CAN deduct interest from personal loans in some circumstances. If you're a business owner and take out a personal loan for business expenses, you CAN deduct the interest as a business expense. If you own a rental property and use a credit card to make repairs to the property or take out a personal loan to make improvements, you CAN DEDUCT the interest from your taxes. The IRS has entire chapters devoted to this topic on its web site.

Maybe the confusion is that for tax purposes it is the use of the interest/loan, not if your a Corporation/LLP/Trust/Proprietorship, etc. It is interest for "personal use" that has a problem.

Correcting the above, back to the original: The examples given are NOT personal interest. They are loans made for a business purpose. They are loans taken, or expenses, incurred in the course of making taxable income. (Like interest on the margin account on your stock investments may become deductible).

The only personal interest that may be deductible is on qualifying mortgages for a house.

Interest on a corporate credit card that someone incurred for purchasing say haircuts for their own use, would NOT be deductible.

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