AmyC
Employee Tax Expert

Deductions & credits

Work around:

 

  1. Grab your depreciation schedule from last year and the first year you depreciated the house.
  2. Open up your program for this year.
  3. Go to your rental
  4. Revisit/Update
  5. Rental and Royalty Summary screen
  6. Click Edit next to your property
  7. Look down to Sale of Property/Depreciation, select Update
  8. Do you want to go directly  to your asset summary?
  9. Select yes
  10. Your property assets screen
  11. you may have several things listed here, let's work on the house. Select Edit 
  12. Describe - rental real estate property, continue
  13. Tell us more - residential rental real estate, continue
  14. Tell us about this rental asset:
  15. description - whatever you put
  1. Cost - use first year's amount to depreciate plus land value used
  2. Cost of land -land value used first year 
  1. Date purchased - match from first year
  2. Continue
  3. Tell Us More - always used for business, select yes or no,continue
  4. Confirm prior year depreciation - use total from last year, continue
  5. Asset summary - should be correct for your house.

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