Property that is a \u201cstock in trade.\u201d cannot be exchanged. So if you are a dealer in real estate or you are buying and selling at a\u00a0\u00a0frequency that IRS regard those transactions as business and properties as stock-in-trade dealers, then also you may not claim 1031 same kind exchange benefit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nHouses built by a developer and offered for sale are stock in trade. If an investor buys \u201cfixer-uppers\u201d and sells them as soon as they are improved, the properties may be considered as stock in trade and cannot be exchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
1031 exchange rule gets a heavy change vide the recently passed law-The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act. So, one of the major provision of law that was used by a taxpayer to save on capital gains tax requires fresh look and understanding. Fact is that heavy lobbying by various NGOs for preventing any change to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[208,207,209,211,212,210,144,145],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irstaxapp.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}