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- From: jdavidso@teknowledge.com (Jim Davidson)
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: Expenses Preparing a House for Sale
- Message-ID: <JDAVIDSO.92Dec26083509@jeeves.teknowledge.com>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 16:35:09 GMT
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- In-reply-to: rand@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM's message of 23 Dec 92 18:45:57 GMT
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- In article <10850011@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM> rand@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Rand Briggs) writes:
-
- > I am selling my home. Do expenses for fixing up the
- > house to sell it such as replacing a broken window
- > receive some sort of favorable tax treatment?
-
- Those are classed as repairs, as opposed to capital improvements. If they
- occur within a certain window around the time you sell the house (I don't have
- the pubs with me right now), they may enable you to *defer* certain taxes that
- would otherwise be due this year. This is only relevant if you are "moving
- down" to a less expensive house.
-
- Note that you don't get out of paying the taxes; you just don't have
- to pay them this year. Capital improvements, on the other hand, are added
- to your basis, and reduce the amount of taxes that you have to pay in the
- long run.
-
- -Jim
-
-