Capital Gains and Losses

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Rates are set by fiscal year, effective October 1 each year. Find current rates in the continental United States ("CONUS Rates").

Personal-Use Property


Personal use property includes items that you don't use for business purposes and did not acquire for investment purposes. For example, your car, home, coin and stamp collection, television, and jewelry.

Although personal use assets are technically capital assets, they receive special tax treatment. A loss on the sale of personal use property is not deductible while a gain on the sale of personal use property is taxable.

Limitation on personal casualty and theft losses. 

Personal casualty and theft losses of an individual, sustained in a tax year beginning after 2017, are deductible only to the extent that the losses are attributable to a federally declared disaster.

Personal casualty and theft losses attributable to a federally declared disaster are subject to the $100 per casualty and 10% of your adjusted gross income (AGI) limitations unless they are attributable to a qualified disaster loss.

Personal casualty and theft losses attributable to a qualified disaster loss are not subject to the 10% of the AGI limit and the $100 limit is increased to $500. An exception to the rule above, limiting the personal casualty and theft loss deduction to losses attributable to a federally declared disaster, applies if you have personal casualty gains for the tax year.

Avoid costly penalties!

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