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Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

Hello DoninGA,

 

I do not have "jump to" option when I search for rentals in TT. Screenshot attached below.

How do I go there?

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Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

If I am at the right place shown in my screenshot, then how do I enter the sale?  Do I enter as an Asset?

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

The keywords rentals works on my Windows desktop edition.  Try rental property for the search.

The property must be entered as an Asset before it can be sold.

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

Hello DoninGA,

 

When I come to step 5 of your original instructions, how do I report the sale in the Expenses/Assets (Depreciation) section? Do I add it as an Asset?

 

Can you help me via web call? I can share my screen where you can direct me.

Thank you,

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business


@TaxNewbe wrote:

Hello DoninGA,

 

When I come to step 5 of your original instructions, how do I report the sale in the Expenses/Assets (Depreciation) section? Do I add it as an Asset?

 

Can you help me via web call? I can share my screen where you can direct me.

Thank you,


No I cannot answer you back by web-call or any other means.  I am a volunteer on this forum and am not an employee of TurboTax or Intuit.

 

When you started to enter this property as a rental you were presented with a screen probably labeled Review Your (street address) Rental Summary.  You should have selected Assets/Depreciation to enter the property as an Asset.  On the Describe this Asset screen you should have selected Rental Real Estate Property.

Then continued to add the Rental Property particulars for this asset.

If you have done this then you should be able to go back through and select the option to sell the Asset.

Carl
Level 15

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

Do I add it as an Asset?

Ummmmmm, if you don't have anything in the assets/depreciation section, that's an indication that you haven't been depreciating the property each year as required by law. You need to run (don't walk) to a tax professional for help with this. If you in fact, did not depreciate the property then you have a major issue that is compounded even more if your state also taxes personal income.

Otherwise, here's the guidance on reporting the sale of rental property.

Reporting the Sale of Rental Property

If you qualify for the "lived in 2 of last 5 years" capital gains exclusion, then when prompted you WILL indicate that this sale DOES INCLUDE the sale of your main home. For AD MIL personnel who don't qualify because of PCS orders, select this option anyway, because you "MIGHT" qualify for at last a partial exclusion.

Start working through Rental & Royalty Income (SCH E) "AS IF" you did not sell the property. One of the screens near the start will have a selection on it for "I sold or otherwise disposed of this property in  2021". Select it. After you select the "I sold or otherwise disposed of this property in 2021" you continue working it through "as if" you still own it. When you come to the summary screen you will enter all of your rental income and expenses, even if it's zero. Then you MUST work through the "Sale of Property/Depreciation" section. You must work through each individual asset one at a time to report its disposition (in your case, all your rental assets were sold).

Understand that if more than the property itself is listed in your assets list, then you need to allocate your sales price across all of your assets.  You will only allocate the structure sales price; you will NOT allocate the land sales price, since the land is not a depreciable asset.  Then if you sold this rental at a gain, you must show a gain on all assets, even if that gain is $1 on some assets. Likewise, if you sold at a loss then you must show a loss on all assets, even if that loss is $1 on some assets.

Basically, when working through an asset you select the option for "I stopped using this asset in 2021" and go from there. Note that you MUST do this for EACH AND EVERY asset listed.

When you finish working through everything listed in the assets section, if you ever at any time you owned this rental you claimed vehicle expenses, then you must also work through the vehicle section and show the disposition of the vehicle. Most likely, your vehicle disposition will be "removed for personal use", as I seriously doubt you sold your vehicle as a part of this rental sale.

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

Thank you, Carl.

 

I have multiple assets added for this property. I have a screenshot added in one of the above response.

But this property itself is not added as an asset.

 

When I add this property as an asset, how/where do I enter the passive activity losses for it?

 

Thanks,

Carl
Level 15

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

But this property itself is not added as an asset

Really? Is the first item listed "Rental Condo" not the property itself? With a depreciation amount of $8945 it sure looks to me to be the property itself.

 

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

Ahh.. that's why I need another pair of eyes.

Thank you, Carl.

I will edit that row and enter the selling information there.

 

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

You need to sell off ALL the assets associated with the property that was sold but allocating the sales price & costs of sales appropriately.   If this seems to be more than you feel comfortable with then upgrade to one of the LIVE options this year to get the extra help you need. 

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

I updated sale data in the asset.

It hasn't taken the passive activity losses into account (or do I think so?).

Where can I check that it has?

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Carl
Level 15

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business

It hasn't taken the passive activity losses into account (or do I think so?).

This may happen if you have multiple assets and did/didn't do any one of several things.

- In the Property Profile section (2 screens in I think) if you do not select the option for "I sold this property", then your PAL carry overs will not be released. So make sure you select that option.

- If you sold the property at a gain, then you must show a gain on all assets, even if that gain is $1 on some assets, and $100,000 on other assets. A gain is a gain either way.

- Ditto the opposite of above if you sold at a loss.

- TurboTax folks keep saying you can enter your total sales information on just the property entry, and a sale price of all remaining assets as $0. That's just flat out wrong. When you do that, the depreciation on those assets you entered $0 for is not recaptured. Instead, it's included in the capital gain and you are taxed on it at the higher capital gains tax rate, instead of the lower "ordinary income" tax rate. Don't know it for a fact, but this "may" contribute to losses not being used, even though they are released. Remember, once losses get your taxable income to zero, that's it. Any remaining losses just get carried over to the next year and you may be limited to a $3000 loss allowance each year after, until those losses are used up.

 

Where do I enter sale of rental property in TurboTax Home Home and Business


@Carl wrote:

....once losses get your taxable income to zero, that's it. Any remaining losses just get carried over to the next year and you may be limited to a $3000 loss allowance each year after, until those losses are used up.


The sale of property held for rental use at a loss does not result in a capital loss (where there is a loss limitation).

 

Rather, the loss is treated as an ordinary loss which can be used to offset all other income and may even result in an NOL.

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