Not if you wrote the bad check....
In business, probably always, as some type of business expense.On personal tax, probably never, unless you could possibly tie it to an investment or...
You can contract a collection agency to recover it, or you can take it to the prosecutor's office and file criminal charges against the person who wrote it.Your best bet it to take it to collections....
A private investment vehicle whose manager receives a significant portion of its compensation from incentive fees tied to the fund's performance -- typically 20% of annual gains over a certain hurdle...