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We had to pay our tenants $4500 for relocation assistance when we sold our rental property in Portland. Can this be listed as an expense?

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
June 6, 2019
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Best answer by Hal_Al

Yes. it will go on schedule E as other expenses.

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Yes. it will go on schedule E as other expenses.

Can you provide more details on why this County requirement should be treated as "other expenses"? I was required to pay the same fees ($4,500) for relocation expenses. These are government required fees (by law) and would seem to be closer to a County tax than "other expenses". These are hardly incidental expenses. Lumping these into "other expenses" seems rather general, rather than correctly categorizing them as government required fees or a tax.

You can enter this as other expenses and you do have the opportunity to give the expense a name, which show the IRS what the expense is. In fact, this is more specific that merely listing this as a tax. Here is how to enter.

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