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Insolvency
1) Generally, the state of having more debts than assets or being unable to pay debts as they come due. 2) For tax purposes, when a person who has had a debt cancelled still has more debts than assets. Someone who is insolvent even after a debt is cancelled does not have to pay income tax on the amount of the cancelled debt.


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