You will have to file one or more of the following forms to report your gains or losses from involuntary conversions.

Form 4684. Use this form to report your gains and losses from casualties and thefts.

Form 4797. Use this form to report involuntary conversions (other than from 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.

Schedule A (Form 1040). Use this form to deduct your losses from casualties and thefts of personal-use property that you reported on Form 4684.

Schedule D (Form 1040). Use this form to report gain from an involuntary conversion (other than from casualty or theft) of personal-use property. Also, carry over from Form 4797 any net gain from an involuntary conversion of business property held for more than 1 year.

Schedule F (Form 1040). Use this form to deduct your losses from casualty or theft of livestock or produce bought for sale under Other expenses in Part II, line 34, if you use the cash method of accounting and have not otherwise deducted these losses.

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