Selling your home can have tax consequences if its value has gone up. The IRS offers an exemption that lets you exclude some of the profit from capital gains tax when selling your primary residence, ...

When you sell your primary home, the IRS allows you to exclude a significant portion of the profit from your taxes. This exclusion – $250,000 for single filers and $500,000 for married, joint filers – ...

Dear Liz: I thought I understood about taxes and house sales, but I am now confused. It seems like the previous rules were that home sale profits could be rolled from one house to the next and one ...

Moody’s Analytics says outdated capital gains limits keep millions of owners from selling. Changing the rules could add supply, but in the long run, it might also push prices higher. If there’s one ...

Investors who sell an investment at a profit in a taxable account incur a capital gain that they must report on their tax returns. For investments held longer than one year, the long-term capital ...