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Old 07-27-2024, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by manaboutown View Post
People buy new and flip after a year elapses, some many times.

Of course if a couple resides in a home for two years or more capital gain of up to $500K on the sale of the home usually can be excluded from income tax.
I think that applies only to a person's "principal residence". If you've got a home elsewhere that you still claim as your principal residence, then any profit on the sale of your TV home is fully taxable in the year of the sale.