When you purchased a new investment property, any repair before the "placed-in-service" date are counted as cost basis/acquisition cost, deductible against future capital gain, instead of expense deductible in the year it is spent. This is the difference between capital expense and operating expense.
In your case, D is part of acquisition cost, it can be lumped with C, because both are acquisition cost and only usesable when the property is sold.
So yes, you have to have a book keeping track of these capital costs throughout the life of your property so that you can deduct them when you sell.
这个牵涉好像有点多。
卖一房最终得 A,有一些小开销a.
买房成交价B,额外花销加另外投入共b.(B=A+b,1031)
买房时得到现金Credit返回C。
买下房以后维修费D(D<C)。D估计到年底还会增加,这个D是应该跟C联系起来还是分开?
卖的一房是否还得找回当初的买价+维修部分(是否一定要找到那一两年的报税表)?
将为我报税的CPA是今年新换的,我已告诉他我不懂报税,一直是CPA替我报,他似乎觉得我什么都懂,告诉我把做好的收支表给他即可。我这刚开始整理账目,就发现这个我肯定扯不清。是否我该把这一整个系列全留给CPA处理?
多谢!
也就是说你的买房成本是:A+b-C
D得看情况:
1. 如果D是发生在in service 之前, 那它也是Basis, 或者说是买房成本的一部分。
2. 如果D是发生在in service 之后,分两种情况:1) 如果是improvement, 需要单独depreciation 2)如果是repair, 可以直接deduct掉。
你需要你卖掉哪个房从买房哪一年开始每年的报税记录, 卖掉时的adjusted basis 需要你的买房记录, 每年的improvement和depreciaiton记录。
千万找一个懂地产的会计师。
建议你读一读我推荐的这本书:
Every Landlord's Tax Deduction Guide,by Stephen Fishman
CPA能不能查到我历年的报税记录?
是否需要我自己提供?那房十年了,用过两任CPA,我电脑里只保留了三年报税记录。
我是自去年才亲自整理出租资料报税,该补的课真多啊。
但你自己可以从IRS request, 不过好像只可以7年:
Form 4506 (Rev. 11-2020) (irs.gov)
所以建议你先从你以前的CPA那里要, 他们应该有你以前的报税记录。
每个房子在卖掉之前每一年的improvement 都需要有记录的, 包括invoice,算一个房子卖掉后的利润需要:
1. selling closing statment, and selling repair costs
2. buying closing statement
3. every year's improvements
4. eveny year's deprecations ( from tax return)
5. loss carryover (from tax return, if any)
所以的确有很多功课需要补。 新地主们都容易忽视非常重要的bookkeeping, 包括我自己, 卖房子时才发现以前的record 都需要, 哈哈。
买了三年后才觉得需要换个懂行的CPA。
你有没有建议现在我该怎么做来弥补这个过失?那两年的报税对我偏生太重要了。
刚卖的那个房子买的时候投入了不少,当初可能报税的人也不太懂,一年买几个退税也不太多,
换了CPA以后,再买房子,退税才多起来。关键的关键是,我当时对报税完全没上心,我甚至不知道那会计师在哪里。
When you purchased a new investment property, any repair before the "placed-in-service" date are counted as cost basis/acquisition cost, deductible against future capital gain, instead of expense deductible in the year it is spent. This is the difference between capital expense and operating expense.
In your case, D is part of acquisition cost, it can be lumped with C, because both are acquisition cost and only usesable when the property is sold.
So yes, you have to have a book keeping track of these capital costs throughout the life of your property so that you can deduct them when you sell.
佣金回扣一般发给你1099misc, 税务局是知道的,以后卖房子的时候佣金算在acquisition cost 里面,回扣要减掉。
两者都没有,从后来的推算比较难。