I have a client who has a 1st and 2nd loan on their rental home. She may foreclose before 2008 is over. Her 1st loan currently has a balance of 300,000 and is a non-recourse loan. The 2nd loan has a 150,000 balance and is a recourse loan. For the recourse loan she is insolvent and their is no cancellation of debt per IRS instructions. But for the non-recourse loan the loan balance immediately before foreclosure is the selling price. I wasn't sure how to calculate the gain or loss. I used the 300,000 as the selling price and to get the cost basis I used the original cost of the rental minus depreciation plus improvements and multipled by the percentage of the loan that is non-recourse. To get that percentage I took the original non-recourse loan and divided by the total of the two loans to get the non-recourse percentage. The difference was about 41,000 which is taxable gain. The amount of depreciation taken over the years was 40,574. Would all of the gain be ordinary tax rate or some or all capital gain for the depreciation recapture?
Thanks!
GTS1101
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GTS1101
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