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The full amount isn't income because you had to pay something to buy the house. Just like when you buy and sell shares of stock, you only have to pay taxes on the gain or profit that you make on the sale. That is called a capital gain and is the difference between what you sold it for and what you originally paid (to simplify somewhat). Depending on what country you are in, there might be a special consideration for your primary residence that doesn't require you to pay any tax on a certain amount of capital gains if you meet certain qualifications. The example for the U.S. is pasted below:http://www.irs.gov/taxtopics/tc701.htmlTopic 701 - Sale of Your HomeA home is often a person’s most valuable capital asset. If you have a gain from the sale of your main home, you may qualify to exclude up to $250,000 of that gain from your income. You may qualify to exclude up to $500,000 of that gain if you file a joint return with your spouse. Publication 523, Selling Your Home, provides rules and worksheets. Topic 409 covers general capital gain and loss information.In general, to qualify for the exclusion, you must meet both the ownership test and the use test. You are eligible for the exclusion if you have owned and used your home as your main home for a period aggregating at least two years out of the five years prior to its date of sale. You can meet the ownership and use tests during different 2-year periods. However, you must meet both tests during the 5-year period ending on the date of the sale. Generally, you are not eligible for the exclusion if you excluded the gain from the sale of another home during the two-year period prior to the sale of your home. Refer to Publication 523 for the complete eligibility requirements, limitations on the exclusion amount, and exceptions to the two-year rule.If you receive an informational income-reporting document such as Form 1099-S(PDF), Proceeds From Real Estate Transactions, you must report the sale of the home, even if the gain from the sale is excludable. Additionally, you must report the sale of the home if you cannot exclude all of your capital gain from income. Use Form 1040, Schedule D (PDF), Capital Gains and Losses, and Form 8949(PDF), Sales and Other Dispositions of Capital Assets, when required to report the home sale. Refer to Publication 523 for the rules on reporting your sale on your income tax return.If you, or your spouse, is on qualified official extended duty in the Uniformed Services, the Foreign Service, or the intelligence community, you may elect to suspend the five-year test period for up to 10 years. You are on qualified official extended duty if, for more than 90 days or for an indefinite period, you are:At a duty station that is at least 50 miles from your main home, orResiding under government orders in government housing.Refer to Publication 523 for more information about this special rule to suspend the 5-year test.If you sold your home under a contract that provides for all or part of the selling price to be paid in a later year, you made an "installment sale." If you have an installment sale, report the sale under the installment method unless you elect out. Refer to Topic 705, Installment Sales, for more information.More Tax Topic CategoriesPage Last Reviewed or Updated: August 11, 2014

Will the amount I have in my investments affect my FAFSA?For most applicants, yes. Applicants are required to report the net worth of their investments on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as of the date they file the FAFSA.This is the definition of investments from the FAFSA instructions for the PDF version of the FAFSA:Investments include real estate (do not include the home in which you live), rental property (includes a unit within a family home that has its own entrance, kitchen, and bath rented to someone other than a family member), trust funds, UGMA and UTMA accounts, money market funds, mutual funds, certificates of deposit, stocks, stock options, bonds, other securities, installment and land sale contracts (including mortgages held), commodities, etc.Investments also include qualified educational benefits or education savings accounts (e.g., Coverdell savings accounts, 529 college savings plans and the refund value of 529 prepaid tuition plans). For a student who does not report parental information, the accounts owned by the student (and/or the student’s spouse) are reported as student investments in question 42. For a student who must report parental information, the accounts are reported as parental investments in question 91, including all accounts owned by the student and all accounts owned by the parents for any member of the household.Investments do not include the home you live in, the value of life insurance, retirement plans (401[k] plans, pension funds, annuities, noneducation IRAs, Keogh plans, etc.) or cash, savings and checking accounts already reported in questions 41 and 90. Investments also do not include UGMA and UTMA accounts for which you are the custodian, but not the owner.If a small business (less than 100 full-time or full-time equivalent employees) is owned and controlled by the family (51% or more), it is not reported as an asset on the FAFSA due to the small business exclusion.If the family qualifies for the Simplified Needs Test, all assets are disregarded. To qualify for the simplified needs test, parent income must be less than $50,000 and they must satisfy either the tax return test (eligible to file a 1040A or 1040EZ), either parent must be a dislocated worker, or someone in the household must have received certain means-tested federal benefits within the last two years.

A disclaimer: I have no actual inside knowledge of Solar City operations, only information from their public reports and other readily available sources.In a sentence, Solar City is a finance company, specialized in vertically integrated solar equipment leasing and leverages their credit exposure using the tax equity, bond, asset securitization, and public markets.UPDATED March 25: The gigafactory announcement confirms that Solar City and Tesla is moving forward on mass production residential size "utility in a box" lithium battery systems utility scale batteries.Gigafactory Teaser: ts.pngGigafactory Info: ts2.pdfThis fact, told to us a full 3 years before scale is planned to be achieved, ensures that Solar City will be the dominant distributed utility, at least in the US residential sector, by far the most profitable because electricity rates are highest at the residential level. They currently do not hold a dominant share the commercial solar installation market, but this may change over the next 3 years as businesses combien their Solar Systems with leased batteries in order to lower demand charges, which consist of a large portion of a commercial scale utility agreement.In fact, they already offer a battery lease system for large commercial entities. It was introduced in January. Watch the required size shrink to 1kw modules for average joe.DemandLogic: SolarCity DemandLogicThey are unique in the industry. Many other firms participate in the same type of value generation, but they are not pure plays on the business model Solar City specializes in. Let me explain my single sentence answer piece by piece.Solar City uses debt and equity financing to purchase finished Solar Modules. They have a starting portion of equity capital directly from investors, originally seeded by Elon Musk. I will explore the different capital markets they tap for funding in later sections.Best of all, the stock has recently pulled back. For those interested in participating in the future. Solar City has a 100B global market to break into (residential electricity), just like Tesla. And it's just as likely. But they'll definitely raise more money in the short-medium term. At a much higher price then 60/share.Solar City specializes in consumer electricity sales, solar project development, solar equipment installation, maintenance, monitoring and customer relations.The actual product supplied to customers by Solar City is electricity. They enter into long (several options, but 10-20 year duration) agreements in which Solar City provides electricity to the customer at a negotiated price, generally lower than local utility offerings, and the customer allows the installation of solar panels on their roof. No immediate payment is made, the solar assets are not sold, so they remain on Solar Cities balance sheet as a leased asset. And boy, Solar city has a lot of leased solar assets on its balance sheet compared to its physical assets and is adding more at an increasing rate.Their core assets, value of agreements, customers, scale of investment operation operationsNote that they invest x10 more than their entire net property and equipment in Solar Energy systems every quarter.Most of these investments are entirely financed, either with tax equity (selling ITC credits) or borrowing directly from investors. (The graph is refusing to come out symmetrical). Their rate of contract growth is also increasing rapidly. In Millions, USD.A sense of important customer metrics and recognized revenue. This graph best explains why the classic Price/Sales metric is absolutely worthless when valuing Solar City in its early (>20) years.This shows that the average total payment volume per customer contract has stayed fairly steady around 25,000. Over 20 years, ignoring the discounted value of future payments, this would be a utility bill of only 9$/month. (this is an extreme lower bond estimate, the average contract life is likely closer to 10yrs, plus some contracts have linked to inflation price increases) Obviously, most Solar City customers do not agree to replace their entire utility consumption, but they may choose to in the future. This became a real option, although it is expensive as it is in the earliest of stages, for anyone, anyone, regardless of net metering policy, as of just today. See the announcement Below.SolarCity to Use Batteries From Tesla for Energy StorageSolar City remains liable for the electricity generation of these assets, which means they must maintain the installed Solar Panels through the life of the contract. No generation, no customer payments. The contract does obligate the customer to buy generation, they cannot just 'back out' when they don't use electricity. No customer payments, solar city can shut the juice off, just like an electric utility. Solar City also retains ownership at the end of the contract or if the owner moves, so any maintenance work done over the life of the contract will benefit the company's future assets as well. However, many contracts have built in extension options in later years to increase the length of the original agreement.This may seem crazy to some, possibly most. Outwardly, buying and leasing a new technology is a risky move. It definitely would not have worked with plasma TVs or Cellphones in the 1980s. After all, if the Solar Industry is truly successful, won't any panels that Solar City installs today be essentially worthless in 20 years? No, they will still be producing power in a location that uses power, in the required quanities. Maybe they won't be worth much in the resale market, but the saying goes location location location. You can think of this in 2 ways.First, a Solar City does not just own a panel on a customer's roof, it has a contractual arrangement to sell power to the customer based on the CUSTOMERS demand, not the possible max output. So even if Panel efficiencies went to 30% (near physical max), older solar city systems would still be producing the correct amount of power for its host (place whose roof its on) location. At competitor who approached customers offering to install higher efficiency systems at a lower cost would be turned away simply because they already have systems that suit the houses needs.Second, since Solar City is not locked into any single panel manufacturer, they could adapt quickly to any improvements in PV technology. The benefits gained on all new installations, maintenance upgrades on old installations, and growth in demand work would far outweigh the impairment to the value of Solar Cities existing asset base, especially considering their asset base is currently leased on a long term basis.What most people realize, but don't really appreciate, is that the price of finished PV panels has fallen dramatically.Let's start with a graph of Solar City's reported cost per watt of a full installation. This comes from the California open data installation program. Covers the entire lifetime of Solar City up to November 2013. Although this is only for California installations, It is safe to say that they have similar costs elsewhere.But this graph cover's the reduced price of INSTALLED finished solar. The price of raw panels has fallen even further, mainly due surplus Chinese production capacity.Recently, Solar City has been sourcing their Panels mainly from two Asian manufacturers. Here is the last 12 months of Solar City's leased Panel installation assistance, in California, by PV manufacturer, the top 5.As you can see, at least in California, over 80% of Solar Cities panels were supplied by just two firms in the last 11 out of 12 months. This is the only very significant risk, in my opinion.Last 12 month market share for leased panels, investment vs installed, % of SCTY installations retained as an investment.Reported Costs compared to competitorsOn a Grand Scale. It's incredible that humanity has achieved this as quickly as we have. Although the graph does not scale logarithmically, like Intel's stats did through the 1970s to present, it is damn impressive. We did this in less than 50 years, much less than a human lifetime.We may still have a chance at becoming a sustainable civilization, at least on a geological timescale. (Musk's other company, SpaceX, is working on the cosmigical timescale front)To put the most recent years in kW scale and Entire System Costs (Solar Module)Sorry this Data only goes to the end of 2011. Prices have fallen significantly more in the last 2 ensuing years. I have found data for polysilicion, the main raw ingredient for commercial solar cells.If the only cost of generating electricity from the panels was the manufactured cost, Solar would be producing unsubsidized at significantly under .10/kWh, closer to .05. However, the cost of installation, financing, marketing and maintenance now make up a MAJORITY of a fully functional price of a residential PV system.These business activities are what Solar Cities operations are leveraged to. They have fully integrated the supply chain EXCEPT for panel production. This has given them, by far, the lowest fully installed cost per kW. Solar City still sells electricity at the local utility rate, even though it is now cheaper than the utility rate to produce.To be clear, they Financials show they have the lowest costs per kW (2.37/kW as new systems in Q3 2013, .87 on OpEX, an unknown amount allocated to system cost, although $1.50/full cost of the system seems very likely. It's nice when #s just come out like that, makes one think that they reached the actual contracted price), their prices remain on par with competitor installers because they charge at just below the local utilities price. Everyone does. Because they can, and will be able to until every fossil fuel station is shut down. Solar City has some time before they face price competition on that front.As for the rest of the solar industry, the more price competition the better, because it inevitably lowers the cost of panels for Solar City. With long contract lock ins and the media personality of Elon Musk, Solar City will gain from their already large 26% share of US residential PV installations.The ITC 2 year Goldrush:What most people do not realize is that the ITC, the 30% investment subsidy that all Solar Panel OWNERS receive, is not calculated off of the cost of the solar installation, rather, the fair market price of the solar installation. Until very recently, Solar City calculated the fair market value as the cost (considering the panel and installation labor) of PV systems, now, since their costs have fallen so significantly, fair market value is calculated as the discounted present value of electricity sales made possible from the PV system generation. Essentially, even though Solar City is barely profitable now, every project done before the ITC expires in 2016 will be massively profitable [minimum 30% margin] for the lifetime of the contract (20 years). And as they gain the benefits of scale during the next 2 ITC years, they will likely go from barely competitively profitable with utility rates to extremely profitable.Everyone is doing this. 2 years of guaranteed profits attract a lot of institutions. US Solar PV Pipeline Grows To 43 GWThe Bond Market:For each solar energy system installed, leased, and monitored, Solar Cities holds a customer contract promising a stream of payments in the future.These contracts are very long term lease of a physical asset producing something needed by EVERYONE CONSTANTLY. Historically, electricity bills are paid before auto, credit, cell phone, and even mortgage loans. This makes the contracted customer payments considered 'safe'.Recently, Solar City has started to tap the bond market by selling these future payments, with the systems acting as collateral, as asset-backed securities. In their first security issuance, they managed to secure a 4.8% interest rate, half of what they previously were paying in the tax equity market. They plan to issue up to 250 million per quarter using asset backed securities in 2014.The Tax Equity Mark:Solar City historically tapped the tax equity market to raise additional equity capital. Because Solar City invests their capital in assets which benefited from the accelerated depreciation recognition, it receives tax benefits. While a company that buys its own solar system might be able to use tax incentives efficiently, Solar City has no other business which could directly apply the benefits.Many businesses that invest in solar systems do not have a significant tax liability. While an individual company that buys its own solar system might be able to use tax incentives efficiently, no business we know of that specializes in installation or financing of solar systems for others has enough tax liability to be able to use all the federal tax benefits themselves.As a result, these businesses often seek tax-equity investors—investors who can use the tax benefits—as partners. The arrangements used are complex and the number of parties that have been willing to invest in tax equity has been limited, however, so both the administrative costs (in terms of legal and accounting fees) and financing cost (in terms of rate of return required by tax equity investors) are high. As of this writing tax equity investors require 9-9.5% for unleveraged projects. This is the after-tax return to the tax equity investor, net of its tax benefits. The cash return to the tax investor and the cost of capital as seen by the developer are lower.Solar City has Tax Equity arrangements with Goldman Sachs, Google, and Bank of America, plus many more.I can't resist adding these last two charts, even though they do not DIRECTLY relate to the question being asked, but are actually either being driven directly by solar city or demonstrate solar cities international potential.The U.S PV markets:(Solar City: 26% market share in residential and rising, unsure for other segments. But residential driving the overall growth anyway.)Global PV.Solar City is literally about to start their international expansion. The US is a tiny tiny portion of the market. We are the tiny little purple sliver, slightly more now that it is 2013, but the EU is still dominating in terms of installed capacity. Electricity is quite cheap in the US. The Sun shines everywhere, everyday, in a predictable amount.I expect big things from Solar City over the next 2 years, surpassing the scale of many utilities and primarily installing completely off the grid systems for ALL new customers.No one is really talking about this, because no one really believes it is possible. But physically, it is possible, in terms of sunshine, raw materials availability, technology, and current proven scale. Economically, it has just become possible. Barely breakeven, possible losses due to excess maintenance requirements, but still reasonably competitive with fossil fuels.People do not believe this. MANY compare the price of solar to the price of natural gas burned in the plant, ignoring the inherent expensive of building, maintaining and operating a large central utility grid. A significant amount of the price of RETAIL electricity is due to distribution costs and transmission loses, not just generation fuel input costs. Solar is point of the source energy generator. In principal, no central grid needed. In practice, a much smaller central grid will be needed. I cannot understand why this is almost always overlooked.Solar City literally just went from a negative retained value without subsidies to positive retained value regardless of subsidies LAST QUARTER.5g retained value / contract. Growing at 10k+ contracts / quarter.A fact which, when one does the calculations, is surprisingly systematical. I cannot explain this past confidence, or maybe specifically negotiated prices by Solar City. I've confirmed this is correct.Because the ITC lasts 2 years, they will make BOATLOADS over the next 8 quarters. My high estimate is 5 Billion Investment, 3,500mW, end 2016 (end of 30% ITC, reverts to 10%). Retained value of 7 Billion, plus the equity value of their unsubsidized business, which will be huge, as long as it is remains at least break even on new installations.And finally, although not strictly relevant to the question, my technical chart for those who actually want to buy the stock. It just hit the 78.13 target this morning and promptly pulled back. Should retest trend line now.