Understanding Real Estate Cost Segregation
Reading Time: 2 minutes If you want to save while making more money in real estate, you have to be knowledgeable in cost segregation. Learn it here. In today’s article, we are talking about real estate cost segregation: what it is and how it will benefit you. Defining Cost Segregation Cost segregation is a generally utilized…
If you want to save while making more money in real estate, you have to be knowledgeable in cost segregation. Learn it here. In today’s article, we are talking about real estate cost segregation: what it is and how it will benefit you.
Defining Cost Segregation
Cost segregation is a generally utilized tax planning tool. It permits organizations and individuals who have developed, bought, extended, or rebuilt any sort of real estate to increase income by speeding up depreciation deductions. Through cost segregation, they can also defer paying government and state taxes.
Every investment property has a flat line, a depreciation of 27 ½ years for an investment residential property, at least. 100% of the building value over the course of those 27 ½ years gets fully depreciated, usually about 3.63%. 27 ½ x 3.63 = 100%
However, cost segregation allows outside firms to use the IRS tax codes to expedite the depreciation process. So instead of having a flat line, you are going to have a huge bump and appreciation for the first 5 or 10 years and then it tapers off.
How Cost Segregation Helps You Save More Money
At the end of that same 27 ½ years, you depreciate the same 100%. But at the beginning, perhaps when your property isn’t making as much money, you would have paid the mortgages and everything else. You will need that depreciation to offset and help you save more money.
Perhaps at this time of year, think about it 27 ½ years from now. You might be retired, making less money, or in a lower tax bracket: you need the tax savings now.
Firms out there charge anywhere between $1,000-$1,500 per property. But it saves potentially $10,000 to $20,000 depending on how much your property is worth. At the end of the day, cost segregation is fantastic to expedite some of that depreciation to the earlier years of when you own a property rather than just allowing you to flat line it.
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