The New Year is here and yes it is time to look at your assets and see what you can do to exploit the favourable taxation of capital assets. There is little time to plan and to execute tax planning strategies before the 5th April so review your assets and act now. Planning: I … Read more
Do you have an investment property that you would like to sell, but defer the capital gains taxes? If so, then you need to consider a 1031 exchange: A 1031 exchange, otherwise known as a “tax deferred exchange” is a strategy and method for selling one investment property and then proceeding with an acquisition … Read more
As a common cliché would have put it, taxes are inevitable. However, we break tradition in this article as we discuss a method to avoid paying taxes. Exchange 1031 is a provision that allows the homeowner to keep the entire proceeds for the sale of a real estate property by exemption of payment of capital … 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
As a real estate investor, you are aware that each and every dollar that you have invested is compounding your wealth, and, in contrast, that every dollar not working for you represents a lost chance to increase your funds. So, when the time comes to put your property up for sale, you have two choices. … Read more