The “secret sauce” that will provide you with big tax savings. After the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, cost segregation has become more valuable than ever in helping real estate investors accomplish their goals in a tax-efficient manner. Using cost segregation can help you shelter boot from federal taxes in an exchange, reduce your overall tax bill, and increase after-tax yields.
Investors are often shocked that they haven’t learned of a powerful tax savings tool call trade-up basis. One cannot complete an efficient exchange that achieves their goals in a tax-efficient manner without first understanding terms such as “carryover basis” and “trade-up basis” and how these concepts work in an exchange.
DSTs are an efficient way to reinvest your 1031 proceeds. A Delaware Statutory Trust, or DST, has become a very effective tool for helping real estate investors accomplish their goals in 1031 exchanges. In fact, it is so effective that I feel my web page would be incomplete without a brief explanation of what a DST is. That being said, almost all the goals that can be accomplished with a DST can also be accomplished with other types of real estate.
This article will help you how these terms are used when planning to save taxes. When you are planning a tax-efficient exchange that will accomplish your goals, debt is often a critical piece of the puzzle. The terms “leverage” and “LTV” are used to describe amounts of debts on properties you sell or properties you buy in an exchange.
