If i have equity in my property, can i use its equity to purchase additional property without paying tax?
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Equity in one property, can make it easier for you to buy your next property using a lease with option to buy.  The seller will see you have a track record and you may appear as a more substantial buyer.\n\nThe lease payments allow you to control or live in the property until you can save up a downpayment to use towards taking complete ownership.  You do not pay tax on rent.  Your equity on your first property stays intact. \n\nYou can also borrow against your equity, and not pay tax on borrowed money.  An equity line of credit is sometimes more convenient, less expensive to originate, and at a better interest rate than a 2nd mortgage. \n\nSome creditors will look at your equity and issue a line of unsecured credit. A line of credit like this leaves your equity intact, and gives you money to spend towards your new property.  You would not pay tax as you use your line of credit because you are again borrowing money. \n\nIt is correct that you can sell your first property and cash in your equity, but then you would not be purchasing additional property, you would be replacing one property with another.  It is possible you may be able to sell just your equity.  That would mean you now have a partner or co-owner on your first property, and money to spend towards towards additional property.
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We did something similar but transferred it to a Family Trust.\n\nHowever, transferring the deed to you is entirely possible.  The only thing is that when you sell this property, your capital gains will be based on your initial cost of $0.  Therefore, you will pay higher Capital Gains tax later on. \n\nThis should of course be offset by you getting this property for free, and really depends on your tax bracket.\n\nIs there a mortgage on this property?  If so, you can still transfer the deed to you.
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Unfortunately, you can only roll it over into another investment property (Like-kind exchange)  Applying it to your residence will not work.  You have sixty days (before or after the closing) to identify another property and 180 days to close on it.  If you held the property for investment (say yes) and held if for over 12 months, you will pay tax on it at the lower capital gains rates. If you held it for less than 12 months, it is considered ordinary income and is taxed at your regular rate.  If it is less than a year, see if the buyer will wait until the year is up.  Give them soem money back at closing to compensate them for waiting.  It could be worth your while.  To see what the tax might be, use your tax software to estimate what your tax would be.  Sorry to hear about the medical problem, I hope everything works out.  Also, ANY profit is a good profit!!!!!
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Not sure exactly what you are asking, but some banks will extend a sort of 'line of credit' for buying realestate. Thes notes are good for a limited amount of time before the real estate must be moved to permanent financing. Selling the property frees up dome of the 'line of credit'
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A home equity loan or home equity line of credit is really your best bet.  Interest payments can usually be used as a tax write-off.  Check with RegionalMortgages.com
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Is this a liquidating or nonliquidating distribution?  Was the land purchased inside the partnership? Or purchased by one of the partners ten years ago and contibuted to the partnership in the ten years since purchase?\n\nSorry but we really need more information to give relevant tax issues advice.\n\nEdit:\n\nOK - so a nonliquidating (or operating) distribution - Partnership continues to exist with exact same owners and percentages after distribution as before the distribution.  \n\nYou absolutely do not want a disproportionate contribution because things can get a little ugly under IRC section 751 with that so my recommendation would be distribute based on partnership percentages.  This can be done in two ways - distribute land in 50, 40, 10 amount and have 40% partner buy 10% partners share or distribute cash and land to even up percentages. \n\nLet's start with the all land distribution - You will show land removed from books (credit land) for $100,000 the opposite side will be debits to A (50%, B (40%) and C's(10%) capital accounts for $50,000, $40,000 and $10,000.  Each of the partners will reduce their outside basis by that amount (50k, 40k or 10k) and that will be their basis in the parcel of land they own.  (CAUTION: If any of these partners has an outside basis less than the land distributed they will, as someone said earlier, have a taxable event and will need to pay capital gains on the excess distribution!!) Now C sells his land to B for the 10k basis and has no taxable event and B's basis in the land becomes $50k (the same as A's) - (Another CAUTION: If B has intentions to sell the land shortly the portion purchased from C is now SHORT-TERM and will result in ordinary income!).  You say that the land is valued at $200k so the "deferred" tax will be picked up when each of these partner's sells their land and has to pick-up capital gain.\n\nNow the second option: you will make the total distribution to the three partner's 120k.  A's distribution will be 60% of the land - book value $60k, 50% of distributions; B's distribution will be 40% of land and $8k cash - book value $48k, 40% of distributions; C's distribution will be $12k cash - book value $12k, 10% of distributions.  Once again everyone will reduce their outside basis by the distribution amount and once again there will be no taxable event as long as the distributions DO NOT exceed outside basis.  Your journal entry will be a credit to land for $100k; a credit to cash for $12k; a debit to A's partner capital account for $60k; a debit to B's partner capital account for $48k and a debit to C's partner capital account for $12k. A and B will have deferred gain on the land that will become a taxable event when they sell the land for a gain.\n\nHopefully this covers it - if you have more questions - add details and I'm sure I (or one of the other tax professionals here) can clarify. (Also if you are set on keeping the land a 50/50 split just say that and I can give you the journal entry)
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Because the tax is on the sales activity, not the item.  Therefore, each additional sale is another opportunity to tax the activity.
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I would contact a tax professional.\n\nYou might have to pay capital gains tax if it is not your primary residence, but I DO NOT KNOW. I would contact a tax professional.
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I'm no tax attorney, but you should be able to.  My mother-in-law owns rental property - she just did some work to it and plans on writing it all off this year.
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you can offer anything you like.   And no you cant use your VA loan to purchase rental property. Its for your primary residence only.  Just keep that in mind Big dog.  Now  as for the offer. If I asked for 477K and you offered me  417,  I would assume you arent serious.   And move on to my next offer.   But thats just me :D
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No.  But you can add the sales tax to the purchase price of the item for purposes of determining the gain or loss if you ever sell the item.
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did you use the interest and taxes as deductions in the past (you should not have technically)\n\non non personal property (you did not live there) that is not (has not) generated income the interest and taxes are added to the base cost of the property (this will help reduce your gain; it is not a capital gain though)\n\na property that is purchased to be sold and not rented is treated the same way as inventory would be treated (you pay income tax, it is not a capital gain)\n\nif you have a loss it is applied against your income to reduce your taxable income\n\n\n\nTaxation – Lesson 7\nCMA Canada - July 2004 Page 31\nBusiness income versus capital gain\nIn most cases, a business is readily identifiable by the nature of its activities. For example, the manufacture and development of computer chips for resale would constitute\na business. Sometimes, however, it is difficult to distinguish whether income from a transaction is business in nature or capital gain. The sale of land can be either a capital transaction or a business income transaction depending on the facts of the circumstances.\nThe distinction is important because, as you will see, business income is fully taxed whereas only one-half of capital gains are taxed. Moreover, business losses can be\napplied against all other sources of income (e.g. capital gains or employment income), whereas capital losses are only available for offset against capital gains. Business income\nis taxed less favorably while business losses are treated more preferentially. The full amount of business income is taxed in the year that it is earned while only one half of\ncapital gains are taxable, in the year in which the gain is realized. Business losses, unlike that of capital losses, can be used to offset income from all other sources.\nThe chief factor in distinguishing a business activity from a capital gain transaction is the intended use of the property on acquisition. The principal reason for the purchase and the subsequent use of the property will determine the type of income of the profit (loss)\ngenerated upon sale. If the property was acquired for the purpose of resale, then its disposition is likely business income. i.e. if the property purchased is considered\ninventory, then all profits triggered upon sale would be considered business income.\nConversely, property acquired for the purpose of providing the owner a long-term benefit is likely capital property; its disposition creates a capital gain or loss, i.e. any gains generated upon the sale of capital assets used in the course of running a business are deemed to be capital gains.
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yes you can. you just have to make sure that you can show the equity and the fact that you can make the payments on both of the loans.
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no there is no sales tax\nnot even when buying if it is not a new house
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I'm just going off the top of my head here without looking anything up, so just use my answer as a guide and not fact.  (Because staring at the code is factual, but sometimes doesn't get you very far in thought.)\n\nThe rental property.  Chop this up into three components - land, building and personal property.\n\nLand, as you know, is not depreciable.  But it should be listed as a separate component of the sale.  \nThe building is depreciable, but will also be under an additional code section, 1250.\n\nThe general rule starts with section 1231 property.  Then, depending on what it is, it might ALSO be 1245 property or 1250 property.  But just to keep things simple, think 1245 = equipment and 1250=buildings.\n\nBoth 1245 and 1250 pretty much say this: When you sell the asset, the amount over adjusted basis, up to the extent of depreciation taken, is ordinary gain.\n\nFor example.  I bought a piece of equipment a few years back for 10,000.  Tuesday, when I sold it, it had a tax adjusted basis of 1,000 (10,000 historical value less 9,000 of accumulated tax depreciation taken).  I collected 5,000.  In this case, ALL of my 4,000 gain (5,000 sales price less 1,000 adjusted basis) will be ordinary income.  \nLet's say I sold it for 12,000.  9,000 of my gain would be ordinary and 3,000 capital gains.  \nNow I'm babbling.  But in a nutshell, you are recapturing the depreciation expense at ordinary, just like you took the expense (over time).\n1250 for buildings has something similar, but not many have that issue anymore (unless they were purchased over a decade ago or so).  There is some special additional tax on the gain or special rate.\nBut the losses are ordinary, thankfully.\nAnd I feel like I'm getting off track here, but I'm trying.  :)\n\nBut onto the land.  It depends.  And perhaps this is where saying more info is needed might help.\nIf this is a separate piece of land accounted for seperately and Mary can prove that she wasn't going to improve anything, then there might be support for the claim that it is a capital asset and the gains are capital.\nHowever, that would be really agressive to me considering it saysing "holding for future development" and if there has been anything substantial done to the property.\nIn short, you will want to check out code section 1237 for reference too although it doesn't exactly fit your problem.\n\nAnd last but not least, I'll clog this answer with an Explanation nabbed from my own stuff.  Good luck on your research and forgive me for such a lengthy answer.  Usually I hate stuffed answers.  Cheers!\n\nReal property produces capital gain or loss on its sale or exchange if it's a capital asset. The main reasons for the exclusion of real property from the capital asset category are (1) that it's property held by the taxpayer primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of his business, and (2) that it's real property used in his business. Code Sec. 1221(a)(1) , Code Sec. 1221(a)(2) . However, the sale or exchange of real property used in a business (including rental realty), or the involuntary conversion of such property or real property that is a capital asset, can produce a Code Sec. 1231 gain or loss. \n\nThe fact that real property is held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of a taxpayer's business precludes it from being either a capital asset or a Code Sec. 1231 asset (business-use property). Code Sec. 1221(a)(1) ; Code Sec. 1231(b)(1)(B) . The factual question of whether real property was so held gave rise to intensive litigation. Cases decided under Code Sec. 1231 are covered as part of the question of what property is used in a business. Decisions delineating property that is a capital asset are covered in this subdivision. The special rules of Code Sec. 1237 , allow taxpayers other than C corporations to obtain limited capital gain as to property subdivided for sale under certain circumstance
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The following is copied from an IRS FAQ.  I believe it is sufficiently close to you question to serve as an answer.\n\nIs interest on a home equity line of credit deductible as a second mortgage?\n\nYou may deduct home equity debt interest, as an itemized deduction, if you are legally liable to pay the interest, pay the interest in the tax year, secure the debt with your home, and do not exceed certain limitations. For more information, refer to Publication 936, Home Mortgage Interest Deduction; and Tax Topic 505, Interest Expense.
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Real estate taxes are reassessed when a transaction for consideratio occurs. In this case, is money changing hands? If no, then the transfer is "without consideration" and taxes remain the same.