Thursday, November 6, 2014

Some Facts About Cost Segregation

By Christa Jarvis


When it comes to identifying costs, it is of course very important to take note of the laws and rules that are provided by the tax laws of a certain country. One of the most important of these concepts would of course be cost segregation. This is a very important concept that is used to separate personal assets with property assets.

Now basically, this concept is all about using the concept of separating real property assets from personal assets in order to lower taxes. Now this is done by an expert in order to report taxes when the filing day would come. Experts who are good at handling taxes with regard to properties would do this.

So knowing this, many would still ask what the process of this practice. Of course as mentioned earlier, the main goal is to lower taxes by accelerating the depreciation of the property costs. By doing this, one can actually lower the taxes he has to pay.

Now property costs would mean the improvements that are done on to the land, the costs of construction, and of course the additional decorations and such. Now the thing that the experts would do would be to first determine the costs. When they have done this, then they will recording this in the books of the owner.

Just to give one an idea of what can be depreciated, basically building costs can be depreciated over a 27.5 or a 39 year period. Now other costs like exterior improvements and adding of utilities and decorations can be depreciated over five, seven, or fifteen years. These are just some costs that can have accelerated depreciation but there are still more that one can be able to identify if he is an expert.

Now one of the things that the expert would be doing would be to work together with the engineer of the building. Now the first step that he would have to do would be to go over the overall blueprints of the building to get a clearer picture of how the building was built. Now first, the expert will be going over things that can possibly be depreciated over a year and will be bundling together all of these costs.

Of course in order to do this, he will have to have at least the basic knowledge of building engineering so that he will know exactly what he is doing. Now some of the things that he would have to do would be to handle the walls, ceilings, and the floors. Of course he may also take care of the utilities just like the water, the electricity, and of course the telecommunications lines.

Now the last thing to do would be to analyze all the data that was collected in this building and create a tax report. Now if one would do this, then his taxes will definitely be lessened because of depreciation. Now one of the benefits that he will derive from this aside from lower taxes would be the opportunity for him to discover more real estate liabilities.




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