AmyC
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Investors & landlords

1. Land value is part of the basis. Don't make this hard, keep this part simple. 

You know how much you paid for the property originally. That is $x.

You know how much you spent on improvements to the property $y.

You know how much you paid to sell the property with realtor fees, etc, $z.

You know how much depreciation has been claimed $D

Your adjusted basis is $x +$y + $z minus $D

 

2. Your picture shows: Property given up, date purchased, sold, adjusted basis answer from #1, AMT basis, FMV (sales price), and mortgage info.

3. Sales expenses as part of the exchange- usually you pay a broker an extra fee for handling the 1031 exchange. You can put that $1,000 or whatever into the basis of the sold property to keep things simple. That way the gain prorates to the new properties.

4. Reduce new property  Using 1031 Exchange - Internal Revenue Service 

 

Cost basis of the new property = cost of new property - deferred gain from original property.

 

For example:

  • Buy building A, original cost $250,000, depreciated $150,000, sold $400,000
  • if sold, A would have gain of $300,000 but instead did a 1031 exchange.
  • Buy building B for $500,000.
  • Cost basis for new property B is $500,000 -  prop A gain $300,000 = $200,000

 

The adjusted basis of building A is the exchange basis.

Excess basis = cost basis for new property  - adjusted basis of building A

 

For example:

  • Building A   adjusted basis is $250,000 -dep $150,000 = $100,000 = exchange basis
  • Building B $500,000 purchase price
  • Excess basis = purchase -exchange
  • Excess = $500,000 - $100,000 = $400,000 excess basis

 

The adjusted cost basis is the purchase price minus the deferred gain from the property sold. 

 

From my example above:

Cost basis for new property B is $500,000 -  prop A gain $300,000 = $200,000

 

 

If you have two properties, you will want to allocate the deferred amount based on prices. If building B above plus building C were purchased then:

  • Building B purchase price $500,000
  • Building C purchase price $300,00
  • Then building B is 500/800 =62.5% of replacement to take that portion of the deferred gain.
  • Building C is 300/800 = 37.5% of the deferred 

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