Normally, if you purchase a piece of real estate to fix up and sell it at later date, the profit is taxed under the capital gains rules. There are even more favorable rules if the property qualifies as your principal residence. If you live in it more than two years during the five-year period preceding the sale, you can often exclude the gain from taxation altogether under special rules for homeowners.
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CELLPHONE TAXES
Wireless and other telecommunications are one of the few services that are consistently subject to sales and use taxes by states with both narrow and broad sales tax bases.
2018 tax plan, in 2 charts
Tax reform is making progress, but there’s still a long way to go. AP/Alex Brandon
Income-tax brackets could change in 2018 if tax legislation is enacted under President Donald Trump.
The Senate’s bill proposes keeping seven tax brackets but changing the income ranges, while the House’s version of the bill would reduce the number of tax brackets to four.