Home Sale Tax Calculator
Calculate capital gains tax on selling your primary home, including the $250k/$500k exclusion.
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Requires owning and living in the home as your primary residence for at least 2 of the last 5 years to qualify for the exclusion.
Worth Knowing
Selling your primary home comes with one of the tax code's most generous breaks: you can exclude up to $250,000 of gain ($500,000 for a married couple) from capital-gains tax, provided you owned and lived in the home for at least two of the last five years. Only gain above the exclusion is taxed. Many sellers owe nothing at all, which is why this exclusion is one of the most valuable provisions for ordinary homeowners.
How to Use
- Enter Filing status into the first field of the Home Sale Tax Calculator.
- Fill in the rest: Sale price, Cost basis (purchase price + improvements), Other taxable income.
- Your result appears instantly as you type — there's no submit button or page reload.
- Requires owning and living in the home as your primary residence for at least 2 of the last 5 years to qualify for the exclusion.