FORM 8824 AND THE HUD-1

First, let’s discuss where you will get the information that will be required to complete the form.

When you close on your properties, sale of the Relinquished Property and purchase of the Replacement Property, you will receive a HUD-1 Settlement Statement to inspect and approve, and then you will be asked to sign it.

You will take a copy of it with you when you leave the Closing.

Take care of your copy.  This document is protected by the federal and state laws of confidentiality and will not be given to anyone else.

Some of the items on your HUD-1 Settlement Statement might be marked with the symbol “POC” and that means “Paid outside Closing.”

For instance, the Surveyor might have required payment before releasing the survey, and you might have paid for that.

If so, the amount that you paid will be shown, probably on line 1301 of page 2, and will be marked “Survey POC” and show the amount that was paid.

Otherwise, all of the important information related to your transaction, and most of what you need to complete IRS Form 8824, will be identified and reported on the HUD-1.

• Name of Buyer,
• Name of Seller,
• Property location,
• Settlement date,
• Contract sales price,
• Value assigned to personal property,
• Loan payment amount,
• Deposit of earnest money,
• Amount of new loan,
• Existing loan assumed,
• Amount of real estate commission,
• Amount of property taxes,
• Reserves deposited with the lender,
• Charges for the closing and title insurance, and
• Recording fees for documents.

FORM 8824, THE 1031 EXCHANGE FORM

The combination of the HUD-1 and the information on our Capital Gains Tax page will be all that you need for the completion of the form.

For review, we are dealing with the following scenario.

FORM 8824 EXAMPLE

• Alan Adams bought a Duplex ten years ago for $200,000 cash.
• He assigned a value of $20,000 to the land.
• The furniture and furnishings had negligible value, none assigned.
• He began claiming depreciation allowance on the $180,000 building.
• He spent $30,000 cash in capital improvements on two garages and began claiming depreciation.
• He borrowed $30,000 from the bank, putting a lien on the property.
• The balance on the note is now $18,000.
• He spent $20,000 cash on furniture and furnishings and began claiming depreciation.
• He has claimed $65,400 in straight-line depreciation on the Duplex.
• He has claimed $7,644 in straight-line depreciation on the two garages.
• His total straight-line depreciation claimed is $73,044.
• He has claimed $15,200 in accelerated depreciation on the furniture and furnishings.
• His total overall depreciation claimed is $88,244.
• His basis in the property is $161,756 (200,000 plus 30,000 plus 20,000 minus 88,244).
• Bob Baker has offered him $400,000 for the Duplex.
• His total costs of the sale will be $10,000.
• His net sales proceeds will be $372,000 (400,000 minus 10,000 minus 18,000)
• His Capital Gains will be $228,244 (400,000 sales price minus 161,756 depreciation basis minus 10,000 closing costs).
• $15,200 of the $228,244 will be Accelerated Depreciation Recapture, taxed at 39.6%, resulting in $6,019 tax.
• $73,044 of the $228,244 will be Straight-line Depreciation Recapture taxed at 25%, resulting in $18,261 tax.
• $140,000 of the $228,244 will be regular Capital Gains (400,000 minus 10,000 minus 200,000 minus 30,000 minus 20,000) and will be taxed at 20%, resulting in $28,000 tax.
• His total tax liability will be $52,280 (6,019 plus 18,261 plus 28,000) on the $228,244 Capital Gains.
• He will purchase a Fourplex as his Replacement Property at a price of $700,000.
• His closing costs will be $5,000.

FORM 8824 WORKSHEET

Part I of Form 8824 is called “Information on the Like-Kind Exchange” and contains seven lines requesting information about your Exchange.

*Line 1.  Description of like-kind property given up.

Insert a brief description such as “Duplex located at 123 Anywhere Street, City, State, Zip.”

If the transaction involved personal property, add something like “Furniture, furnishings, and appliances for six bedrooms, two living rooms, two laundry rooms, two kitchens, and four bathrooms.”

Don’t worry about whether you are providing enough information.

If you are not, and the IRS wants more, they will just ask you.  You will not suffer any consequences.

Just make sure that the information you do provide is accurate.

*Line 2.  Description of like-kind property received.

Enter information similar to the above for the Replacement Property.

*Line 3.  Date like-kind property given up was originally acquired.

This is asking for the date you originally acquired the property that you sold, the Relinquished Property.  This will prove that your Capital Gains is actually long-term.

*Line 4.  Date you actually transferred your property to the other party.

This will be a date more than 12 months from the date on the line above.

*Line 5.  Date like-kind property you received was identified by written note to another party.

This is the date you notified your QI under the 45-day period.

If you received your Replacement Property prior to the 45-day period and did no notification, enter the date that you received the Replacement Property.

*Line 6.  Date you actually received the like-kind property from other party.

This is the date that you closed on your Replacement Property, and will show that you satisfied the 180-day period requirement.

*Line 7.  Was the exchange of the property that was given up or that was received made with a related party, either directly or indirectly.  If “Yes,” complete Part II.  If “No,” got to Part III.

We are assuming that you have not done an Exchange with a Related Party, so you will mark this “No” and go on to Part III.

FORM 8824 CALCULATIONS

This Part III is called “Realized Gain or (Loss), Recognized Gain, and Basis of Like-Kind Property Received.”

It contains lines 12 through 25.

Lines 12 through 14 are used to report any part of your Relinquished Property transaction which was not like kind property.

On Line 12 you report the fair market value of that property and on line 13 you report your basis in the property, then subtract line 13 from line 12, and put the results on line 14.

Skip lines 12 through 14 if all of the Relinquished Property was like kind, which we are assuming in our Examples.

*Line 15.  Cash received, FMV of other property received, plus net liabilities assumed by other party, reduced (but not below zero) by any exchange expenses you incurred.

This is the way the IRS asks if you received any boot.

For Adams this number is zero.

*************************************

I hope you are enjoying this free content.

The remainder of this content, plus additional content, is available in my book “How To Do A Section 1031 Like Kind Exchange: Simultaneous, Delayed, Reverse, Construction” available at Amazon.com/dp/B01MY433L6.

And if you are dealing with a Triple Net Lease, Delaware Statutory Trust, or a Tenancy-In-Common property, you need the OMNIBUS EDITION at Amazon.com/dp/B07BJLZNZN.

Or you can see all ten of my books on Real Estate Investing at Amazon.com/author/michaellantrip.

And I am re-writing all of this content for use on my Blog at MichaelLantrip.com, where it has already started appearing.