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Investors & landlords
Your gain seems to be about $45,000, and because you lived in the house for about 58% of the time required to qualify for the full exclusion, and you moved out for one of the covered reasons, you qualify for a 58% exclusion. Fortunately, that does not mean you can exclude 58% of your own gain, which would mean you would still pay tax on about $20,000. It means that you can use 58% of the normal exclusion limit. Since the normal exclusion limit is $250,000, you can use an exclusion of about $140,000, and since your total gain is less than your revised exclusion, none of the gain is taxable.
Most state income taxes are “conforming“, this means that they conform to the federal definition of taxable income. Since your gain is not included in your federal taxable income, it will not be included in your state taxable income either. I suppose there might be a non-conforming state that will want to tax your gain, you would have to research your own state income tax laws. I am not aware of any state that will tax your gain, but there might be something in state law that I am not aware of.
Your income does not affect your qualification to use the partial exclusion because you moved out early due to a job change. If some of your gain was taxable, then your income would affect your capital gains tax rate.