An example of that, unrelated to business, is the list of home improvements is on Page 12 of IRS
Publication 523, Selling Your Home.
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Publication 523, Selling Your Home.
It is included on Worksheet 2 in IRS
publication 523, entitled "Selling Your Home," and is reported on Schedule D, line 19.
The instructions to the form, in combination with Publication 523, are generally complete and, with some minor exceptions, comprehensible.
Line 4 instructs taxpayers not to include "personal property items that you sold with your home." Neither the instructions nor Publication 523, however, define "personal property." Examples of includible items (such as fixtures) and excludable items (such as lawn implements) should be included in the instructions.
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Publication 523, Selling Your Home, offers the following examples of such costs: abstract fees; charges for installing utility lines; legal fees (including fees for the title search and preparing the sale contract and deed); recording fees; survey fees; transfer taxes; owner's title insurance; and any amounts the seller owes that the buyers agree to pay, such as certain real estate taxes, back interest, recording or mortgage fees, charges for improvements or repairs, or sales commissions.