“It’s not how much you make that counts,” my father told me many years ago, “but how much you keep of what you make.” I did not really understand that old adage at the time, but he was passing on some wisdom that his father had given him. It’s just common sense, but it is … Read more
Taxes are your major expense in your lifetime, so choose your source of income as you wish. Real estate has some of the best tax breaks of any investment in United States and some other countries. The more you earn through your profession, the more you get taxed, and the system is setup that way … Read more
While we are immersed in the joys of holiday celebration, tax time stealthily approaches. And although it is said that “time and tide wait for no one”, there are things we can do to prepare ourselves for the tax deadline. Most homeowners operate on a conventional tax schedule, so that regardless of whether they pay … Read more
Inthe summer of 1990, the Internal Revenue Service announced the long awaited rules on Tax Deferred Exchanges. Section 1.1031 of the IRS Code laid out in detail the procedure for turning a sale and purchase type transaction into an Exchange. The revised rules allow owners of certain types of “like kind” real estate to sell … Read more
One of the most essential concepts in the 1031 exchange process is that a property investor must not receive any cash benefit from the proceeds of the sale of his or her relinquished property; any kind of cash benefit from the sale is considered to be boot, and this means, in fact, subject to capital … Read more