The land sale would have occurred in 2019 and will not affect the 2020return. The primary residence that was sold in 2020 will be reported on the 2020 income tax return.
If you sold your primary personal residence and you lived in and owned the home for at least two years in the five year period on the date of sale, you will be able to exclude the gain if your gain is less then the exclusion amounts of $250,000 if filing Single or $500,000 if filing Married Filing Jointly (and both lived in and owned the home for two years).
A gain greater then the exclusion amounts would result in taxable gain. You may have received a Form 1099-S for the sale either with a gain or a loss, the sale has to be reported. You will need the online TurboTax Premier or Self-Employed edition to report the sale if you are using the online editions.
- Click on Federal Taxes (Personal using Home and Business)
- Click on Wages and Income (Personal Income using Home and Business)
- Click on I'll choose what I work on (if shown)
- Scroll down to Less Common Income
- On Sale of Home (gain or loss), click the start/revisit button
Or enter sale of home in the Search box (upper right) > Press Enter > Click on Jump to link
You can defer gain on only one primary residence in a two year period. If you have more than one home, you can exclude gain only from the sale of your main home. You must pay tax on the gain from selling any other home. If you have two homes and live in both of them, your main home is ordinarily the one you live in most of the time.
The home your bought in 2019 and need to sell in 2021 will have to be reported and the gain may be fully taxable. Use the following link for more information. Sale of Residence
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