I sold my house and used that money to buy another house. Where do I document that on Turbo Tax?

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SALE OF HOUSE

If your gain was more than  $250,000 filing Single, or more than $500,000 filing Married Filing Jointly the sale must be reported on your tax return.  Whether you re-invested the gain in to another house is irrelevant.  If you  have a Form 1099-S go to Federal>Wages and Income>Less Common Income>Sale of Home (gain or loss)

If you owned and lived in the home as your primary residence for at least 2 of the last 5 years on the date of the sale, you do not have to report the home sale if the gain is less than $250K filing Single, or less than $500K filing Married Filing Jointly (and you both owned and lived in the home for at least 2 years).

• If you are using online TT, you need Premium software to report the 1099-S

NOTE:   If you have ever used the home as rental property or claimed a home office, you have more information to enter

[Vanessa A]

If you bought a house and sold a house, you will  enter the Sale of your Home by selecting the following:

• Federal
• Income
• Sale of Home under Less Common Income
• Walk through the steps to enter the sale

The purchase of your new home is not something reported to the IRS.  The sale of your home is.  

It doesn't matter that you used the money to buy a new house, the old sale still is considered one transaction and the new purchase is something else.

Keep all of your sales agreements and records for the new house, because if you sell it again, you will need to know the cost basis of your house so you can deduct what you paid for it, which will reduce your profit. 

Depending on the sales price, how long you lived there and your marital status, the sale may or may not be taxable income as you may qualify for the Home Sale Exclusion.

1. If you owned and lived in the home for 2 out of the last 5 years, then you may qualify for the home sale exclusion which would exclude up to $250k ($500k if married filing jointly) of the sale of your home.  In order to qualify you must not have used the home sale exclusion in the past 2 years. 
2. If you do not qualify, the rest of your income will play a part in the tax rate. This would be a capital gains sale so  your tax rate would be between 0% and 20%. The capital gains rates are as follows based on income
   • Zero percent rate for the following income
     • $44,625 for single or MFS
     • $59,750 for HOH
     • $89,250 for Married Filing Jointly
   • Fifteen percent for income more than above but less than below
     • $276,900 for MFS
     • $492,300 for Single
     • $523,050 for Head of Household
     • $553,850 for Married Filing Jointly
   • Twenty percent for the amount that your taxable income is over the 15% level