LD 920
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LR 1225
Item 1

 
1.__Basis of land sold or exchanged.__The provisions of the
Code determine the basis of land sold or exchanged.

 
2.__Consideration.__The amount realized from the sale or
exchange is the full actual consideration paid or to be paid,
including the amount of any liens or encumbrances on the land
not removed by the sale or exchange.__The amount realized from
the sale or exchange is the gross amount reduced by any
expenses of sale and commissions.__If a sale includes land and
buildings or other structures, the amount realized must be
allocated between the land and the buildings or other
structures on the basis of fair market value.

 
3.__Gain subject to penalty.__The gain subject to penalty
from the sale or exchange of land for timber harvesting is the
amount realized from the sale or exchange of land, including
the amount realized from the sale of timber or timber rights,
minus the basis of the land as determined under subsection 1.

 
The penalty on the gain under this subchapter from the sale or
exchange of land for timber harvesting may not be reduced by
any losses incurred in other transactions.

 
4.__Holding period.__The land for timber harvesting sold or
exchanged is deemed to have been held as determined under the
Code.__If a person's holding period is claimed by the seller
or exchanger, the holding period may not exceed the time that
that person had actual and recorded title to the land in that
person's name and includes the time the land was held prior to
the effective date of this subchapter.__If a husband and wife
are tenants by the entirety there may be added to the holding
period the amount of time the land was held by one spouse
alone before that spouse created the tenancy by the entirety.__
Notwithstanding any other provision to the contrary under the
Code, if a tenancy by the entirety is dissolved by reason of
death or divorce, the holding period during the tenancy by the
entirety is added to the holding period of the spouse
subsequently owning the property in the spouse's own name.__
For the purposes of this subsection, land devised to or
inherited by a surviving spouse or land awarded to a spouse
upon dissolution of marriage is treated as though it was held
by husband and wife as tenants by the entirety.__If the land
is a gift, the holding period of the donee must include the
time that actual and recorded title was held by the donor.

 
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this subsection, land
acquired from a decedent or an estate or sold by an estate has
a holding period commencing as of the date of death of the
decedent and its basis is the fair market value of the
property as of the


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