You also use Form 6252 during each year you receive income from your contract for deed. Attach Form 6252 to your Form 1040 and Schedule D, “Capital Gains and Losses.” First-year installment sales are reported on Form 6252 on lines 1 through 4, Parts I and II; and lines 1 through 4, Part II in later years.
How do you report Section 1031 Like-Kind Exchanges to the IRS? You must report an exchange to the IRS on Form 8824, Like-Kind Exchanges and file it with your tax return for the year in which the exchange occurred.
A Qualified Intermediary, or QI, is an independent third party to the transaction whose function is to prepare the documents necessary to create the exchange, as well as to act as the independent escrow agent for the exchange funds.