You will need to report the sale under the rental asset section (step 16 below).
You will report this sale under the rental section.
Additionally, when you sell a property that was used as a rental, you must pay 25 percent recapture tax (also referred to as Section 1250 recapture) as well as regular state income tax on the depreciation you claimed. (Remember the IRS will assume that you claimed the correct amount of depreciation every year—this is true regardless of whether you actually claimed any depreciation on your tax return).
Click this link for further information about reporting the sale of a capital asset
To enter your rental sale under the rental section in TurboTax Online or Desktop, please follow these steps:
- Once you are in your tax return, click on the “Federal Taxes” tab ("Business" tab in TurboTax Home & Business)
- Next click on “Wages & Income” ("Business Income and Expense" in TurboTax Home & Business)
- Next click on “I’ll choose what I work on” (Jump to full list)
- Scroll down the screen until to come to the section “Rental Properties and Royalties”
- Choose “Rental Properties and Royalties” and select “start’ (or “update” is you have already worked on this section)
- If your rental property is listed, you will need to select "edit" to access this information. Otherwise enter your rental property information. (If you are entering your rental information for the first time, you will need to add the rental house as an asset under step 16)
- Is This a Rental Property or Royalty? - choose rental and put rental information and address
- What Type of Rental is This? - choose rental type (ie: Single family (home or unit where a single family lives))
- Do Any of These Situations Apply to This Property? - select sold
- Was This Property Rented for All of 2016? - answer questions based on your circumstances
- Property Ownership - select your ownership percentage
- Indicate if you Actively Participate - yes or no (If yes, this allows some of the passive losses to be used against passive income)
- Did You Pay Anyone $600 or More for Work Related to This Property? - yes or no
- Is Your Property in Any of These Designated Areas? - Usually "none of the above"
- Review Your Rental Property Rental Summary
- Select Sale of Property/ Depreciation section. Here is some additional information you will need to select under the sale of property section:
- About 3 screens in, if the house is listed under this section, you will select that you want to edit this property
- About 4 screens more, check box that you sold the property under "Tell us about this rental asset"
- For the special handling screen - say "no" (Please note that if you used FMV at the time of conversion to a rental for your depreciation (as opposed to adjusted basis), you will want to answer "yes" here and enter the sale under the sale of business property section (see below).)
- Home Sale - select "yes" if sale of main home.
- Sales Information - enter the sales price information You will need to allocate the net sales proceeds into asset sale and land sale. If your proceeds are not allocated, you can use the same percentage of asset and land from the original purchase for the sales proceeds allocation
