What Form 4797 Analyst 2022-2023

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Hi I'm Jeff Louisville a staff accountant with AAA accounting and today I want to talk about some of the tax considerations for selling business assets if you own a corporation you have the option of either you're selling your stock or selling the businesses assets it's generally better as the seller to sell your stock rather than selling the assets this is because you usually qualify for special beneficial tax rules on the sale of qualified small business stock if you sell the assets you don't get this beneficial treatment and instead you might be subject to depreciation recapture which I'll discuss later if you decide that you will sell your stock check out our video on disposing a small business stock if you decide to sell the assets your gain or loss will be calculated as follows the gain or loss is equal to the amount you realize minus your investment in the business the amount you realize is equal to the total of all the cash property and debt relief you receive minus any selling expenses your investment is what you paid for the business assets minus any depreciation that you were allowed for example after many years of operating a restaurant you decide to sell it at a loss to a competitor for 150 thousand dollars he also agrees to take over your bank loan of 30,000 and you have expenses on the sale of 5,000 at the time you have assets you paid 450 thousand dollars for on which you've taken 150 thousand dollars a depreciation your loss is calculated as follows the amount you realize is equal to the 150,000 dollar selling price plus the 30 thousand dollars of debt relief minus the five thousand dollars of selling expenses or 175,000 your investment is...