JamesG1
Expert Alumni

Investors & landlords

I would use the original costs that you posted as the basis for depreciating property B and property C as the basis for the allocation of the selling price over the assets.

 

So if we go back to the original example and, again, have a selling price of $222,000, we arrive at:

 

 

               Original cost  Sales price

 

Residence   100,000       199,103

Land              10,000          19,910

property B      1,000             1,991

property C         500                996

 

Total             111,500        222,000

 

Whether you use this method or your method, make record of how the selling price was allocated in the event that a tax authority has questions about how the computation was derived.

 

Whether you use one method or the other, the selling price will be the same and all depreciation will be recaptured.

 

There will be differences in the gain or loss treatment of the 1231, 1245 and 1250 property.

 

@DanTz 

 

 

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