If you claim status as a tax-law-defined real-estate professional, you’ll be able to deduct your rental-property losses. But “claiming” that you’re a tax-law-defined real-estate professional is very different from proving that you are. And the IRS wants proof that you… Spend more than one-half of your personal service time in real-property trades or businesses in which … [Read more...]
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New IRS Regs: Does Your Rental Qualify for a 199A Deduction?
You may know that new Section 199A of the tax code gives you up to a 20-percent tax deduction for your pass-through business income. But what about your rental activities? Do they qualify you as an individual for this potential 20-percent deduction? These are important questions that we’ll answer fully when you read my new article titled Tax Tips: New IRS Regs: Does Your … [Read more...]
How cost segregation can turn your rental into a cash cow
Thanks to the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, conducting a cost-segregation study on your rental property can put a lot of money in your pocket. What exactly is cost segregation? How can a cost-segregation study on your real property save you big money? It’s really not that hard, but you have to know the IRS’s rules and follow them carefully. To find out how to put this … [Read more...]
How to deal with the qualified improvement property snafu
As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress created the qualified improvement property category. It was intended to let you fully expense qualified property with bonus depreciation. Unfortunately, Congress made a drafting error in the law which means you can’t use bonus depreciation for qualified improvement property. But don’t let that get you down. We’ll explain how … [Read more...]
Tax tips. How to safeguard your home-sale exclusion
Yes. The times they are a-changin.’ Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. Here’s an example of a change in the tax law that could cost you big money if you’re not paying attention… The days when you could convert your rental property or vacation home to a principal residence, and then use the full $250,000/$500,000 home-sale exclusion to avoid taxes, are … [Read more...]