If it is your personal primary
home:
Enter your sale of your primary
residence (which may require an upgrade in TurboTax), please follow these
steps:
1. Once you are in your tax return (for TurboTax
Online sign-in, click Here), click on the “Federal Taxes”
tab ("Personal" tab in TurboTax Home & Business)
2. Next click on “Wages & Income” ("Personal
Income" in TurboTax Home & Business)
3. Next click on “I’ll choose what I work on”
4. Scroll down the screen until to come to the section
“Less Common Income”
5. Choose “Sale of Home (gain or loss)” and select
“start’
6. You will want to use the "Easy Guide" to
determine the adjusted basis on this home
Alternatively, to enter this sale
of a second home in TurboTax Online or Desktop, please follow these
steps:
1. Once you are in your tax return, click on the “Federal
Taxes” tab ("Personal" tab in TurboTax Home & Business)
2. Next click on “Wages & Income” ("Personal
Income" in TurboTax Home & Business)
3. Next click on “I’ll choose what I work on” (jump to
full list)
4. Scroll down the screen until to come to the section
“Investment Income”
5. Choose “Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other” and select
“start’ (or “update” is you have already worked on this section)
6. The first screen will ask if you sold any investments
during the current tax year (This includes any sale of real property held as an
investment property so answer “yes” to this question)
7. Since you did not receive a 1099-B, answer “no” to the
1099-B question
8. Choose type of investment you sold - select Second
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