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Tax Topic 19 - Selling Your Property
In this topic your will become familiar with the rules that apply when you sell your main home. Your main home is the home lived in most of the time. You will learn the amount that you can exclude from income of the gain from the sale of your home. In addition, you will learn what to do when the sale cannot be excluded from income, in which case it becomes fully taxable. You will also learn what to do with a non-deductible loss of the sale of your home. 

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Student Instructions: Complete the following 3 steps:

  1. Read the reading material and answer the questions on this page.

  2. Assignment Pending...Submit the answers to the Assignment online (the questions on this page). Scroll down for all questions on this page. When you are ready to submit click on the Assignment link. (These questions may appear again on the quiz online).

  3. Complete a quiz on the reading material: Quiz Online. You have 60 minutes to complete 40 questions for this quiz. You must study the reading material. You won't have time to look up questions in the reading material. If you don't pass, you can retry only after 24 hours have passed. - Every time you try the questions will be different. You will be disqualified from completing this topic if you do not  allow the proper 24 hours in between tries. If you are disqualified, you will notified through email of the substitute topic to complete.

Important: If you fail a topic you can try again until you pass. However, you cannot try that same quiz or assignment again until 24 hours later. This will give you enough time to study and review the reading material.

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Material needed to complete the sections in this assignment:

Use IRS Publication 523, IRS Publication 544, IRS Publication 537, IRS Publication 551, and Form 1040 Instructions (Form 1040 instructions only up to page 98) to complete this tax topic.

Please note: Form 1040 Instructions (Form 1040 instructions only up to page 98) will be used for the rest of the topics in the initial tax preparer certification course. You will be responsible to answer questions from the Form 1040 instructions booklet (up to page 98) on every topic so read it carefully.

Tax Return Situation 1:

Prepare  Form 1040 and Schedule D.

    Karen (Age 24), a single person, bought her home February 23, 2000. She lived in the home until May 31, 2009, when she moved out of the house and put it up for rent. Karen rented out her home until May 31, 2010. That's when she moved back into the house and lived there until she sold it on January 10, 2011. Karen wants to exclude all of the gain from the sale of her home.

 
Karen's records show the following:  
Original cost $50,000
Legal fees for title search $750
Improvements (deck) $2,000
Selling price $195,000
Commission and expenses of sale $15,000
Depreciation claimed after May 6, 1997 $1,642
   

Karen's W-2 shows her current address information. 

1. Look at the Form 1040 you prepared for Karen Ortega. What is the amount on Form 1040, Line 13?

A. $9,727.
B. $12,157.
C. $1,642. 
D. $0.

2. Look at the Form 1040 you prepared for Karen Ortega. What is the amount on Form 1040, Line 22?

A. $16,727.
B. $18,369.
C. $143,977. 
D. $142,335.  

 

 
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