How do I allocate the gain from the sale of a partnership interest between short-term gain and long-term gain?

[cory4]

How do I allocate the gain from the sale of a partnership interest between short-term gain and long-term gain?  A portion of my investment has a holding period of 6 months and the balance has a holding period of two years.  I entered the proceeds and basis on the K-1 worksheet, and it flowed to form 8949, but it all shows up as short-term gain.  How can i allocate the long-term portion?

[TaxGuyBill]

Are you saying that owned a portion of the Partnership (for two years), then you purchased a greater ownership interest (6 months ago)?

[cory4]

It's more complicated than that.  I contributed stock and cash to a partnership that was liquidated several months later.  The portion of the partnership interest purchased with contributed stocks retained the characteristics of those stocks - the acquisition date and basis.  So when I report the sale of my partnership interest, I have multiple acquisition dates, some of which create a short term gain and others a long term gain.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

I guessing that this is a publicly traded partnership (PTP) bought and sold thru a brokerage.

if so, you have to be careful if your importing data from brokerage 1099-B because the sale will already be there (the basis reported will be wrong)

make sure on k-1 that you check final and partner sold interest in 2018. use quickzoom to get to TT disposition worksheet.  go to part II and enter info use 0 for selling price  and 0 for basis.  then you can go to 1099-B worksheet and enter  sales and basis  - 2 entries needed  1- short term 1 long -term.  delete the brokers info

or you can just change the basis the broker is reporting 

basically the same approach even if not a PTP

be careful if a because often part of the gain is ordinary. A PTP will provide a sales schedule for this.  a non-ptp should/will report as supplemental info any ordinary gain. 

[cory4]

Thank you.  It's not a PTP and not reported on a 1099-B.  It is reported on a K-1.  If I go to part II and enter info use 0 for selling price  and 0 for basis, where do I go to report the actual selling price and basis?