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- From: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: expenses preparing a
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.1302.4078@execnet>
- Date: 26 Dec 92 15:35:12 EST
- Reply-To: "hilary miller" <hilary.miller@execnet.com>
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- Rand Briggs, in a message to All on 12-24-92 at 7:37pm, said:
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- RB>|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?
- |____________________________________________________
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- They may be applied to reduce the amount realized. This has
- two effects: first, the gain on the sale is reduced, so that,
- regardless of whether you pay the capital gain tax currently
- or defer it by making a qualified purchase of a new home,
- your tax will be lower; secondly, by directly offsetting the
- amount realized, the purchase price of the replacement home
- you must buy to defer recognition of the gain is reduced.
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- L A
- I R Hilary B. Miller of Greenwich, Connecticut
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