Where to include income received from sale of business asset - Section 179 recapture

[liz7171]

I sold office furniture for $500. This item was purchased in 2012 for $990 and I took a Section 179 deduction for the entire cost that year. My understanding is that I need to report a gain of $500 on this sale/recapture because the furniture would have been fully depreciated by 2020. I answered the questions about the sale in the section Dispose of Business Property, but that $500 shows up nowhere, and there were no further questions later on about whether it was an installment sale, etc. Do I need to add a line item for Misc. Income for $500, or is there some other way this income should be reported in TT?

[liz7171]

After more poking around it appears that the gain from the sale of the asset will not show up on the corporate return but will rather flow directly to the schedule K-1's. Is this correct?

[ColeenD3 · Accepted solution]

Yes. 

Code L. Recapture of section 179 deduction.

The corporation will report your share of any recapture of section 179 expense deduction if business use of any property for which the section 179 expense deduction was passed through to shareholders dropped to 50% or less before the end of the recapture period. If this occurs, the corporation must provide the following information.

• Your share of the depreciation allowed or allowable (not including the section 179 expense deduction).
• Your share of the section 179 expense deduction (if any) passed through for the property and the corporation's tax year(s) in which the amount was passed through. Reduce this amount by the portion, if any, of your unused (carryover) section 179 expense deduction for this property.

1. Shareholder's Instructions for Schedule K-1