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HOMETAX NOTES RESEARCHFEDERALINTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986

Sec. 1211 Limitation on capital losses

  • Internal Revenue Code of 1986
  • SUBTITLE A -- INCOME TAXES
  • Chapter 1 -- Normal Taxes and Surtaxes
  • Subchapter P -- Capital Gains and Losses
  • Part II -- Treatment of capital losses

(a) Corporations. In the case of a corporation, losses from sales or exchanges of capital assets shall be allowed only to the extent of gains from such sales or exchanges.

(b) Other taxpayers. In the case of a taxpayer other than a corporation, losses from sales or exchanges of capital assets shall be allowed only to the extent of the gains from such sales or exchanges, plus (if such losses exceed such gains) the lower of--

(1) $3,000 ($1,500 in the case of a married individual filing a separate return), or

(2) the excess of such losses over such gains.

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