I recently bought a house with my brother in CA, for loan purposes, the title was put into just my name. I have been looking at adding my brother to the deed as we are splitting all the payments 50/50.
If I do not add my brother to the deed, would I be responsible for paying income tax on the 50% of the mortgage payment my brother pays? Or is his payment considered a gift? Or are there no tax ramifications to that arrangement?
If I do add my brother to the deed, would this result in a gift tax for 50% of the property? Would this trigger any other immediate tax ramifications?
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This sounds like my story. Both my broker and lender were quick to say that is easy to add a sibling to title... 8 months later I'm still trying to add him and wondering if I made a mistake by not adding him from the get go..
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