Investors & landlords

you have two assets land and the building. both were sold.

thus, the sales price and the selling costs must be allocated between the land and building

in Turbotax this can be done by showing total cost of $280K and then entering the land value on the same worksheet as $40K. Turbotax will use a depreciable basis for the building as $240k. you then would enter the allocated amounts for each item on the worksheet

 

 

 

 

 

one way is based on their original cost, but the proper way is based on their relative fair market value

so combined

sales price         320,000 

cost building     240,000

land                       40,000 

expenses            16,891

depreciation      (16,000)

net                      280,891

gain                      39.019