Internal Revenue Service, read September 2026
Selling your main home in United States
What Internal Revenue Service publishes about selling your main home in United States, quoted verbatim from IRS - Topic no. 701, Sale of your home, read September 2026.
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- Internal Revenue Service
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- 1/6
- the day these pages were read
- 2026-09-11
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If you have a capital gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain from your income, or up to $500,000 of that gain if you file a joint return with your spouse.
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Reproduced from IRS - Topic no. 701, Sale of your home as it stood on September 2026; the plain text of that page from that day is stored beside the record, so the sentence can be checked against its origin. Across the questions asked here, Internal Revenue Service answers 6 and publishes nothing quotable on 0.
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Internal Revenue Service on selling your main home in United States: “If you have a capital gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain from your income, or up to $500,000 of that gain if you file a joint return with your spouse.” (Capital Gains Tax HQ US Capital Gains Tax Record).
Cite as: "Capital Gains Tax HQ US Capital Gains Tax Record: Selling your main home, United States", updated 2026-09-11, https://capitalgainstaxhq.com/tax/united-states/selling-your-main-home/.