Federal Tax Form 4797 - Sales of Business Property

Tax Form 4797 is used to report the following:

  • The sale or exchange of:
    1. Property used in your trade or business;
    2. Depreciable and amortizable property;
    3. Oil, gas, geothermal, or other mineral properties; and
    4. Section 126 property
  • The involuntary conversion (from other than casualty or theft) of property used in your trade or business and capital assets held in connection with a trade or business or a transaction entered into for profit
  • The disposition of noncapital assets (other than inventory or property held primarily for sale to customers in the ordinary course of your trade or business)
  • The disposition of capital assets not reported on Schedule D
  • The gain or loss (including any related recapture) for partners and S corporation shareholders from certain section 179 property dispositions by partnerships (other than electing large partnerships) and S corporations
  • The computation of recapture amounts under sections 179 and 280F(b)(2) when the business use of section 179 or listed property decreases to 50% or less

 

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2007 Federal Tax Form 4797 - Sales of Business Property
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