Key legal question
Whether the activity qualified as self-employment rather than hobby/lack of gainful activity, allowing deduction of losses.
Extracted holding
The activity was not shown to be a sustainable, profit-oriented self-employment; the losses were therefore not deductible business expenses.
Extracted reasoning
The taxpayer had incurred losses for seven years, with renewed increases in 2006-2007, and the various activities were not structured as a durable source of income. A later modest profit did not alter the assessment.