If flipping houses is your business, it would go on Schedule C.
If it is a one time investment, enter it on Schedule D. See What is Schedule D?
To enter this as business income:
- Type "Schedule C" in the search/find
bar and
click search/find.
- Click on Jump to Schedule C.
- Click on start/edit or Add Another
Business.
- At the Your XXX
Business screen:
- To enter your income, scroll
down to Business Income. Click Start/Update. Click Start/Update next
to General Income.
- To enter your business
expenses, scroll down to Business Expenses, Other Common
Business Expenses.
Click Start/Edit.
7. Continue with the onscreen interview.
To enter your flip as investment income:
- Once you are in your tax return, click on the “Federal
Taxes” tab ("Personal" tab in TurboTax Home & Business)
- Next
click on “Wages & Income” ("Personal
Income" 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 “Investment Income”
- Choose
“Stocks, Mutual Funds, Bonds, Other” and select “start’ (or “update” is
you have already worked on this section) (see Screenshot #1)
- 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)
- Since you
did not receive a 1099-B, answer “no” to the 1099-B question
- Select -
everything else
- Some basic information:
- Description – Usually the address of the
property sold
- Sales
Proceeds – Net proceeds from the sale
- Date
Sold – Date you sold the property
- Tell us
how you acquired the property - purchased
- Purchase
information - This is where you will enter your cost plus the capital
improvement costs.
- Enter the
date acquired.
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