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When you sell your home, federal tax law requires lenders or real estate agents to file a Form 1099-S, Proceeds from Real Estate Transactions, with the IRS and send you a copy if you do not meet IRS requirements for excluding the taxable gain from the sale on your income tax return.

Maine does not have a special capital gains tax rate and, due to the state's federal conformity tie-in provision, generally follows federal law concerning the following: the partial exclusion for sale of small business stock (IRC Sec. 1202);

Note: Federally taxable gains on the sale of Maine real property are taxable by Maine, even if the total consideration is less than $100,000.

Reporting the Sale Use Schedule D (Form 1040), Capital Gains and Losses and Form 8949, Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets when required to report the home sale.

On the state level, California's Franchise Tax Board (FTB) taxes all capital gains as regular income. Depending on your tax bracket, the tax can be anywhere from 1% to 13.3%. On the federal level, gains can either be considered short-term or long-term.

Form 1099-S is used to report the sale or exchange of present or future interests in real estate. It is generally filed by the person responsible for closing the transaction, but depending on the circumstances it might also be filed by the mortgage lender or a broker for one side or other in the transaction.

Both the seller and purchaser of a group of assets that makes up a trade or business must use Form 8594 to report such a sale if: goodwill or going concern value attaches, or could attach, to such assets and. the purchaser's basis in the assets is determined only by the amount paid for the assets.

Typically, when a taxpayer sells a house (or any other piece of real property), the title company handling the closing generates a Form 1099 setting forth the sales price received for the house. The 1099 is transmitted to the IRS.