My husband and I have a rental beach property that we are entertaining selling. We have had it for 15 years as rental property the entire time. We have accummulated a large sum of money in our Passive Activity Loss bucket. When I tried to do a what if using our 2019 taxes it did not bring in any of our passive losses from prior years to offset the net gain. What can I do to get an estimate of how this transaction would have affected us in 2019??????? THANKS FOR ANY HELP
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on the worksheet for the rental property, there will be a quickzoom link to the asset entry worksheets that contain the details of the assets. the sale info is entered in the assets entry worksheet - starting with line 20. the sales price and closing costs need to be allocated between the land and building. disposal of the activity changes the treatment from passive to non-passive so all previous unallowed losses will be allowed without limitation - flows to schedule E page 1. the sale of the building will flow to form 4797 page 2. the sale of the land will flow to form 4797 page 1. the redetermined gain on 4797 flows to schedule D line 11. the capital gain portion and the sec 1250 recapture portion flow to the capital gain worksheet where the tax is computed.
First, establish your adjusted cost basis on the property.
Adjusted Cost Basis = What you paid for the property, plus what you paid for any property improvements incurred while you owned the property.
From that total subtract your total depreciation taken on the property for the entire time you owned it.
This gives you your adjusted cost basis.
Now subtract the adjusted cost basis from your sale price. (We're ignoring selling expenses for now, as this can only be a rough estimate.) This gives you your reportable gain.
From your reportable gain subtract your passive activity losses. If you have a positive amount left over, it's your taxable gain and you're done.
If the subtraction of your passive losses gets your taxable gain to zero, any remaining losses can be deducted from "other" ordinary income up to a maximum of $3000 per year, until all those losses are used up.
Note that if you are an active participant in the rental activity, you can also deduct an additional maximum of $25,000 from your "other" ordinary income in the tax year you sell the property, provided the property was classified as rental property during that tax year you sell the property.
Champ Carl, thank you so much for your counsel. I sold another condo 6 years and it automatically populated our "loss" bucket to offset all the gains and left some too.
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on the worksheet for the rental property, there will be a quickzoom link to the asset entry worksheets that contain the details of the assets. the sale info is entered in the assets entry worksheet - starting with line 20. the sales price and closing costs need to be allocated between the land and building. disposal of the activity changes the treatment from passive to non-passive so all previous unallowed losses will be allowed without limitation - flows to schedule E page 1. the sale of the building will flow to form 4797 page 2. the sale of the land will flow to form 4797 page 1. the redetermined gain on 4797 flows to schedule D line 11. the capital gain portion and the sec 1250 recapture portion flow to the capital gain worksheet where the tax is computed.
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This is my mini version of a tutorial that should be in the downloaded program:
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As Hackinoff pointed out, the Passive Loss Carryover does NOT change the gain on Form 4797. It is a direct deduction on Schedule E.
If it is not showing up on Schedule E, go to the introductory part of the rental section and indicate it was sold.
Thank you so much. Very Helpful!
Thank you for this information, good to know!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you. You were the most helpful at guiding to me the right forms. I have been doing taxes a long time and this had stumped me. Very much appreciated.
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