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Transcribed Image Text:To qualify for exclusion treatment on the sale of a principal residence, the residence must have been owned and used by the taxpayer for at
least two years during the five-year period ending on the date of the sale. Are there any exceptions to this provision?
✔. Under this code section, the exclusion amount for a taxpayer filing single is $
There is an exception under § 121
which is multiplied
✓by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of qualifying months and the denominator of which is
months. The result is the maximum amount of excluded ✓gain. The relief provision applies when the failure to
meet the two-year ownership and occupancy requirement results
from employment, health, or other unforeseen circumstances as defined in the Regulations
✓.
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