The rule for the sale of your main home (primary residence) has an exclusion amount of the long term capital gain if you meet the 2 out of 5 year rule of living in your main home (primary residence.
Go to the IRS gov web site and use the search box for Topic 701 - Sale of Your Home
If you have a gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude all or part of that gain from your income. Publication 523, Selling Your Home, provides rules and worksheets.
Yes you do if you owe any capital gains tax on the sale of the asset after your income tax return is completed correctly and IF you owe any taxes on gain.
Much of whether there is tax liability of a short sale depends on whether the home was a primary residence or not. In most circumstances you will not pay taxes on a short sale if it was your primary residence. This is because of a law that went into effect called the Mortgage Debt Relief Act. If the property was an investment and not a primary residence you may have to pay taxes.
When you file your income tax return for the year of the sale.
Maybe.. The best way to describe the situation is to think of it as a sale of the property. You don't have to pay taxes on insurance proceeds up to the amount of your tax basis on the property. You will have to pay taxes on any payments above your tax basis. If you receive more than your basis you pay tax on the gain. This is assuming the property is a total loss. If it was repaired, then your basis would transfer to the repaired property, no loss, no gain.
Yes this could be possible.
yes
No unless that is yours and the buyers agreement they might have you pay taxes or they won't move in and if they do pay taxes you won't have to worry about them.
Yes. You will receive a form 1099-C for debt cancellation on a home foreclosure, credit card debt cancellation, auto loan failure to pay, etc. Just because you get a form does not mean you will have to pay taxes on the money. You just have to complete extra forms and possibly pay taxes on any gain you had from the cancellation.
Yes you do if you owe any capital gains tax on the sale of the asset after your income tax return is completed correctly and IF you owe any taxes on gain.
If you had the home as your primary residence within the past 2 years, you will not have the pay the taxes. This is as long as you did not gain more than $250,000 from the sale.Ê
Presumably your speaking of federal income taxes? Getting a loan, secured by property or not, are never a taxable event. (Not paying it off can be). When you sell a home, you MAY be taxable on the gain on sale although there are many exclusions available for this too. (To calculate the gain, the loan itself would NOT be considered part of your basis - that is the amount you have invested and above which you have gain. However, if it was used to pay for improvements to the property, those improvments generally would increase basis).
If you mean do you have to pay taxes on the proceeds from the sale of a house which had a HELOC on it, the HELOC would be have to be paid off upon sale of the subject property. You wouldn't have to pay taxes on it since it is an expense, not income.
not if you are renting free from the home owner the home owner has to pay taxes
You will find a lot of information about taxes regarding the sale of your home on the IRS website. They will be able to guide you in what forms you need to fill out before you sell your home to make sure that you do not get in any trouble with the them.
Much of whether there is tax liability of a short sale depends on whether the home was a primary residence or not. In most circumstances you will not pay taxes on a short sale if it was your primary residence. This is because of a law that went into effect called the Mortgage Debt Relief Act. If the property was an investment and not a primary residence you may have to pay taxes.
if you go to Dubai then you wont have to pay taxes instead you gain more money
No only on parts.