Farmer owned 80 acre farm but the real estate tax records divide his farm into two adjacent parcels. Parcel one is 40 acres on which his home was located and parcel two is 40 acres of vacant land also used for his farm operation. Both parcel were used for farming. The farmer sold off a small portion of parcel two. How would the capital gain be handled. Would it qualify for the homeowner capital gain exclusion? ($250,000 for single).
"wjsafe" wrote
He didn't sell any of his house, so no gain exclusion. Some portion of his basis in the farm land is allocable to the property sold and from there you compute the gain on the sale.
I would say 4562 as a business / investment gain. There shouldn't be any depreciation of the land, although there could have been some farm structures (fencing, gates, etc) that have been expensed over the years.
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