Some Facts 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.

Of course included in the costs incurring with regard to property assets, there are the land improvements cost, constructions, and external additions done to the building. Of course the experts must first determine what the costs there. It is from there that they will work their magic in the reports to decrease taxes.

Now so that one will be able to have an idea of how this is done, the building costs can actually be depreciated up to over a 39 year period. There are other costs such as utilities as well as the other land improvements that can be depreciated up to over five and even fifteen years. Of course there are still more costs that can be considered in here although it is up to the expert to determine what these are.

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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