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Cost Segregation – How it works and when to use

Cost Segregation is one of the big words use by tax gurus and tax strategists to potentially make you pay less taxes. Cost segregation is simply accelerating depreciation on real estate assets that are usually subject to 27.5 residential and 39 commercial to some items (parts of the building) at 5, 7 or 15 years

By |2024-11-18T01:23:46+00:00January 13th, 2025|Categories: Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Consider tax loss harvesting to reduce your tax liability

First, what is this harvesting? – no, you do not need to live in a farm. Tax loss harvesting is selling investment with a loss (take that capital loss) and apply against the capital gain of profitable investments. Example 1: Sold share of X Inc with a $5k loss (purchased at $7k and sold at

By |2025-01-07T08:21:42+00:00December 14th, 2024|Categories: Individuals|Tags: , , , , , , , , |

Philadelphia extends Net Operating Loss to 20 years

If you are a business in Philadelphia and have a loss, you can use that loss against the future profit in the next twenty year and offset that income. This change was approved by the City of Philadelphia in 2018, but required Pennsylvania approval which was granted recently. The New Jersey Small Business Development Center

By |2025-01-13T16:44:06+00:00November 9th, 2022|Categories: Business|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Hobby activities versus business – Profit purpose?

The IRS as part of their Tax Tip 2021-94 provided more clarification on the hobby activity and how to report hobbies (Schedule 1, Form 1040, line 8). Note that the IRS might disregard expenses on a business if they consider that it is a hobby or just for the purpose of offset other income and

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