AmyC
Expert Alumni

Deductions & credits

No. Your basis is what you paid plus any improvements.

Property tax is maintenance not an improvement. Interest paid is a personal choice - in IRS thinking, no deduction for that.

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Topic No. 703

Publication 544, Sales and other Dispositions of Assets

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