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- From: ask@cbnews.cb.att.com (Arthur S. Kamlet)
- Subject: Re: 1992 income?
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:03:53 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.000353.22453@cbnews.cb.att.com>
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- In article <UfNOcYW00iQV0uLK4o@andrew.cmu.edu> "William A. Schurman" <ws19+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >I'm hoping for some help concerning the following...
- >
- >I was divorced in 1991. In February of 1992, as part of my divorce settlement,
- >my x-wife purchased my half of our house deed for an amount well less than half
- >of its purchase price.
- >
- >I've been told that I cannot declare this as a capital gains loss even though
- >I essentially did lose in the home investment. Must I then report this
- >settlement amount as income for 1992?
- >
- >I'd appreciate any responses to this.
-
- Two separate issues here.
-
- First, if you incur a loss on the sale of your personal residence
- you cannot declare that a capital loss. If you incurred a gain,
- that's income (possibly deferable income.) That's just the rules.
-
- Second, your divorce settlement may or may not specify whether the
- house settlement is income to her and deductible payment from you.
- Check with your lawyer or read the settlement finely. This is
- independent of whether selling houses at a loss.
- --
- Art Kamlet a_s_kamlet@att.com AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus
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