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Challenge #362: Capital Gains Tax when Selling a Home

mattbov92
8 - Asteroid

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Louie-Horn
7 - Meteor
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Erin
11 - Bolide

I admit, I had to get help from the posted solution for this. Taxes are hard.

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mkeiffer
10 - Fireball
10 - Fireball

Here is my solution! 

Alesson_Oliveira
8 - Asteroid

my solution

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Salum0405
8 - Asteroid

Here's my solution

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Will_Condon
8 - Asteroid

I'm not paying the solution amounts because they do not subtract the exclusion of Gains ($250k or $500k) from the taxable figure.  My accountant came up with a way to save on taxes.  I have Janet and Jerry White paying $136,000. Tell me where I went wrong.

 

If ever there is a reason to use a spreadsheet for this calculation, this is it.

 

Workflow:

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Nicholas_14
7 - Meteor


This is what I came up with; there's definitely a more efficient way to do this.

 

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