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Knowing More About Cost Segregation

By Christa Jarvis


Now the laws of taxation are very strict when it comes to people paying their taxes because this is where the government would be deriving income. However, one should take note that there are certain ways one can avoid paying really high taxes. Now a very important thing that one should take note of is that there is a concept known as cost segregation to help those who have property.

Now for those who do not know what this is, this is basically the separation of real property assets from personal assets. Now from there, the property assets are evaluated for certain costs that can be depreciated. From there the accountant will put these costs in the reports.

Now if one would go through this process, most people would ask exactly what he will do. Well the main goal of this process is to simply decrease the depreciation time for the property assets. This in turn would actually help lessen the taxes of the property owner.

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 it is from this analysis that the experts will then be able to create the report wherein the taxes will be lessened. Now it is because of accelerated depreciation wherein the taxes were actually lessened. Now one great thing that would come out from this practice would be that one will be having the opportunity to be able to see what his real estate liabilities are and then he can actually be able to lessen those liabilities.




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