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June 3, 2019
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I traded in my car 2018 and bought a new one. I use the car for 80% business. I received 7k for the car and that went to the new one. How do I enter the sales price.

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What do I need to enter for the business portion of the sales price if all the money I received for the old vehicle went towards the new one so there was no income?

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enter the full sales price  and then check the gain

say original cost $25,000 business depreciation was $13000.

your business basis is $25,000* 80% = or $20,000 less business depreciation of $13,000   net business basis $7,000


80% of $7,000 sales price $5,600 allocated to business so   loss of $1,400 

20%  personal = $1400

personal portion $5,000 less depreciation computed based on IRS tables for persona mileage gives you net value personal portion  if net value greater than $1400 the loss is not deductible 


what's bass is that TT probably can't handle this 

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June 3, 2019

enter the full sales price  and then check the gain

say original cost $25,000 business depreciation was $13000.

your business basis is $25,000* 80% = or $20,000 less business depreciation of $13,000   net business basis $7,000


80% of $7,000 sales price $5,600 allocated to business so   loss of $1,400 

20%  personal = $1400

personal portion $5,000 less depreciation computed based on IRS tables for persona mileage gives you net value personal portion  if net value greater than $1400 the loss is not deductible 


what's bass is that TT probably can't handle this 

david20Author
June 3, 2019
purchase price was 23,755, I received 7k and used 80% for business. so my sales price was 5600
I didn't take any depreciation

what is my
Basis for gain/loss
Basis for ATM
Critter
Employee
June 3, 2019

You can no longer roll a traded in car into the new car basis ... it is a straight sale of the old and purchase of the new asset.