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How your client can exclude from taxable income some of the gain on the sale of his home

April 17, 2018 | Texas REALTORS® Staff
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My client bought his home a few years ago. Now he wants to sell it and take advantage of the tax exclusion of up to $250,000 on the proceeds. What criteria does he have to meet to qualify for the tax exclusion?

The IRS allows a seller to exclude from his taxable income a gain of up to $250,000 on the sale of his home (or $500,000 if he is married filing jointly) if he:

  1. owned the home and used it as his principal residence during at least two of the last five years before the sale
  2. didn’t acquire the home through a 1031 exchange during the past five years
  3. didn’t exclude a gain on another home sold during the two years before the current sale.

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I am real careful with matters of this kind. I may say something along the lines of “I believe the tax regulations allow… but, I before we proceed on that basis, please confirm with your tax accountant or CPA – let’s not get this wrong.”

Much like REALTORS should not practice law, neither should they practice as a tax expert. Something failed to consider could cause a huge problem. And, even if a REALTOR does know the answer, a second opinion will not hurt!

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Sadly this won’t be very much help for my 96 year old unmarried client that is selling the home that she has lived in since she was 6 years old, inherited in 1969 and it has been free and clear for decades. The property is now worth well over $500k and the proceeds are for her assisted living care. She is going to have to pay a big chunk to Uncle Sam. If her heirs were inheriting it they wouldn’t have to pay any taxes on it. Doesn’t seem fair.

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Deleted. Not relevent

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Does this tax exemption apply to foreign people who own a home in the states and then sale it?

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So no vestiges of the ‘one time’ exist nor the ‘basis’ that’s capable of being increased by the additions of capital improvement documentation?

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