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Deductions & credits
There is a Colorado Source Capital Gains & Losses (see screenshot) that you can take if you qualify. So if you do have a gain, despite the exclusion, it will not be taxed in Colorado if you can take the subtraction.
In Colorado and on your federal return, most of the time, you won’t have to worry about capital gains tax unless you’re an investor. The IRS allows you to exclude up to $250,000 of capital gains on real estate if you’re single or $500,000 if you’re married filing jointly. However, you’ll lose that benefit if the home wasn’t your primary residence, you owned the home for less than two years in the five years before selling it, you didn’t live in the house for at least two of those years, you already claimed the exclusion on another home in the past two years or you swapped the home in a 1031 exchange.
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