Under default IRS rules, rental real estate activities are considered passive, regardless of how much time the taxpayer spends managing properties. Passive losses generally can only offset passive income, and unused losses must be carried forward. However, taxpayers who qualify as real estate professionals may treat rental activities as nonpassive, which allows: ✔ The ability
From a tax point of view, Real Estate investments can have significant tax advantages if you meet the real estate professional requirement as you might be able to offset active or earned income from one spouse against the active or earned losses of the other spouse. For high earning couples, one can be a high
If you read our blog, you might be already familiar the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCen) and some of the tools such as the FBAR (Report Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts when you have an aggregate of $10,000 in foreign accounts), the CTR (Currency Transaction Reports where financial institutions report currency (cash or coin) transactions
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
