Partial 1031 Exchange of Business Property and 1250 Designation

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July 8, 2020
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Client sold arena and storage units (all business real property) on 12/31/19, purchased replacement property on 2/28/20. Issue is with calculations of the gain since the replacement property wasn't as much value as the sold property. All other 1031 requirements were met. I am either misunderstanding how the calculations work OR I've entered something incorrectly into the worksheets because I believe the gain is being calculated too high. Any help is appreciated; amounts to follow below.

Sold property value: $1,089,906

Received property value: $284,600

Basis of Sold property: $669,352

Shouldn't taxpayer only have to pay capital gains on sold property value minus sold property basis minus received property value? System is currently calculating capital gains on sold property value minus basis. Thinking I might have mucked something up in keying in the amounts. Also, total amount of gain would qualify as 1250 property since everything sold was real estate...right?? 😞

Thanks all!

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Best answer by TaxGuyBill

@midwesttaxinc wrote:
Seems like if the value of the received property qualifies as a partial 1031, the $284,600 shouldn't be taxed

That is where you are mistaken. Because the taxpayer received non-like-kind property (money), that is taxed first. And because the non-like-kind property (money) is over $284,600, all of the $284,600 is taxed.

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TaxGuyBill

Are you saying that he received $800,000-ish in cash?

If so, the first $800,000-ish of the gain is taxable. Only any gain after that is deferred. When the taxpayer receives any non-like-kind property (such as cash), that part of the gain is taxed first.

Does that solve it for you?

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So, shouldn't he get to recover the basis tax free? I think that's where I'm getting hung up. Seems like if the value of the received property qualifies as a partial 1031, the $284,600 shouldn't be taxed and the remaining basis of the original property shouldn't be taxed, leaving a total of about $129k capital gains taxed. The system is showing me $413,601 as capital gains taxable (sold property value minus sold property basis).

Thanks for the help!

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TaxGuyBillAnswer

@midwesttaxinc wrote:
Seems like if the value of the received property qualifies as a partial 1031, the $284,600 shouldn't be taxed

That is where you are mistaken. Because the taxpayer received non-like-kind property (money), that is taxed first. And because the non-like-kind property (money) is over $284,600, all of the $284,600 is taxed.

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