What is Needed for Taxes When Selling a Home?
What documents do I need for taxes if I sold a house? Know the exact forms and records you must prepare to accurately report your home sale.
You sold your home last year and moved on with your life — literally. Congratulations! But now it’s tax time, and you want to get organized. You wonder then, “What documents do I need for taxes if I sold a house?”
For this post, we’ve consulted experienced professionals to compile a starting checklist of all the home sale-related documents you’ll need at tax time.
We spoke to top Missouri real estate agent Chris Skinner, who’s also an attorney at law and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with over 20 years of experience, and Nathan Rigney, lead tax research analyst at H&R Block, to find out what home sellers need to know when filing taxes.
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