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Enjoy Tax Benefits If You Own a Vacation Home

July 27, 2022 by dmcjoe

Vacation Homes

Are you planning to use your vacation home soon? If you’re not going to use it, have you considered renting it? Or are you thinking of buying a vacation home? Vacation homes, with proper tax planning, can help create tax benefits.

Some types of qualifying vacation or “second homes” which might have escaped your notice are boats, motor homes, timeshares, and trailers. Three simple tests must be met to have a second home: each must have sleeping, cooking, and toilet facilities. If your camper has these facilities, you have a second home for tax purposes.

Owners of vacation homes face a set of tricky tax rules. How these apply to you depends on your personal and rental use of the home during the year. Here are the general rules:

  • 100 percent personal use. If you never rent out your vacation home, you can generally deduct mortgage interest and property taxes. Or, if you rent it out for 14 days or less, the rental use is disregarded. The rental income is tax-free and any expenses related to the rental period are nondeductible.
  • 100 percent rental use. If the home is rented without personal use, it’s treated as rental property. (Personal use means use by your family or anyone who doesn’t pay full market rent.) With rental property, you can deduct interest, taxes, operating expenses (utilities, maintenance, etc.), and depreciation. However, your current loss deduction may be limited by the passive loss rules.
  • Mixed personal and rental use. If there are more than 14 rental days and personal use doesn’t exceed the greater of (1) 14 days, or (2) 10 percent of rental days, you have a rental property. This can be bad news. Interest and taxes must be allocated between rental and personal use. If there is a rental loss, it may not be currently deductible because of the passive loss rules, and the interest allocable to the personal use part of the year is not deductible. If personal use exceeds the greater of 14 days or 10 percent of rental days, special vacation home rules apply. You can generally deduct interest and taxes. The rental income is reduced by allocable interest and taxes. Remaining rental income can be offset but not exceeded by operating expenses and depreciation. Disallowed rental expenses are carried forward to future years.
  • Optimize your tax benefits. Although they’re complicated, the vacation home rules present a place where you can easily make adjustments to optimize your tax benefits. Sometimes it’s better to use the home more often, sometimes less often.

Unfortunately, there are few rules of thumb in this complex area. You need to review the rules as they apply to your specific situation.

Questions on any of these tax tips for owning your vacation home, reach out to our team of experts. Schedule a time with us at https://bas-pc.com/appointment-center/ to discover more!

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