For the last seven years, I rented a portion of my house out (40%) and reported rental income and expenses including depreciation on Schedule E. I also lived in the house. This year (2016) I sold the house and am now struggling to understand how to report the sale. The profit on the sale of the house was only about $75,000 (below the exclusion amount), but I understand I have to pay tax on the depreciation I claimed over the years I was filing Schedule E.
Here is the question. During the years I was filing Schedule E, I always divided the mortgage and property taxes using the ratio that 40% of the expenses would go on Schedule E and 60% would go on Schedule A. Do I have to do the same thing now in reporting the house sale? In other words, do I have to treat it as two sales - one for 60% with no tax implications and one for 40% which would have the information for the depreciation recapture? Or should I just report it as one sale and record the correct amount of the total depreciation there?