Looking for new ways to save money on your tax bill? Consider this… If you’re thinking of converting your primary residence into a rental property, you could be stuck with your old cost basis and have to pay a lot of tax. However, if you sell your home to your S corporation, you’ll have a new, stepped-up basis for depreciation when you rent to a third party through your … [Read more...]
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How to get a fat tax deduction for building repairs
Do you own rental property or your business’s building? If you do, you need to understand the IRS’s new regulations that can have a big impact on your tax bill. You see, these regulations define what’s a tax-deductible “repair” to a building, and what’s an “improvement” that you must capitalize and depreciate. We’ll explain why repair deductions are best and how the new … [Read more...]
How the IRS uses the Tax Assessor against you
The Web is a fabulous invention, but the IRS has figured out how to use it against you. Here’s the story… For your rental properties, you need proof of your cost-allocation to land and depreciable building. If you don’t have proof of that allocation, the IRS has started using the Web to grab the tax assessor’s allocation and use that number to compute your depreciation … [Read more...]
Advantages of a Single-Member LLC
Should you operate your business as a corporation, proprietorship, or single-member LLC? In my new article, the second in a series, I’ll explain the advantages and disadvantages of the single-member LLC. This form of business organization provides corporate-level liability protection for the business owner plus taxation as a sole proprietorship. Want to find out more? Check … [Read more...]
Use passive-loss rules to maximize rental profits
Do you own rental property? Then my new article makes “must” reading. Why? Because it will show you how to put the passive-loss tax rules to work. And these rules are powerful! They can help increase your tax deductions and boost after-tax profits on your house rentals. Don’t miss all the money-making information I’ve got waiting for you in my new article titled Tax … [Read more...]