Blog - The Real Estate CPA

What Real Estate Business Expenses Are Tax Deductible?

By Brandon Hall

August 30, 2019

Taxes

How to Save Money With a New Real Estate Tax Strategy

By Brandon Hall

August 01, 2019

taxes and rental real estate

Self-Directing Your Retirement Plan? Watch Out For Prohibited Transactions and Disqualified Parties

Many of our clients use Self-Directed IRAs and Solo 401(k)s to invest in real estate. They self-direct the retirement account's assets into private real estate deals consisting of rental property and syndicates. This type of investing is a great...

Landlords and buy and hold real estate investors are often faced with dealing with passive losses generated from their rental real estate activity. Though there are ways to get around the Passive Activity Loss regulations, this article walks you...

Real estate investors and landlords stand to save plenty of tax dollars by knowing how and when to use the following three safe harbors. Once you understand the "how" and "when" you may find yourself better structuring repair and maintenance...

Determining whether expenses qualify as repairs or improvements can mean the difference between a couple hundred dollars of tax savings and a couple thousand. Knowing these rules will help you navigate rehab projects and structure your tax...

Business owners make a profit by actively managing their business. Passive investors make money when their assets increase in value as they don’t actively manage their holdings.

A taxpayer can overcome the presumption that all rental activities are passive if the taxpayer qualifies as a real estate professional by satisfying the two quantitative tests of Sec. 469(c)(7)(B):

In this article, I will cover what it means to be accredited and why you want to be an accredited investor, especially in the real estate space.

Real estate investors have heard a lot about the new 20% pass-through deduction, technically called Section 199A. But will your rentals qualify? In releasing the final regulations on Section 199A, the IRS did clarify that rentals must rise to the...