How savvy investors use 1031s to defer capital gains and build wealth Robert Wood Tax is an attorney at WoodLLP. He is also the author of more than 30 books and numerous articles. David Kindness is a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. During my time working with and for real estate investors, I heard about ...

First, let's cover some of the basic rules that govern 1031 exchanges. A 1031 exchange is a tax-deferred exchange where a taxpayer sells one or more assets held for productive use in a trade or ...

Like-kind real estate exchanges, or 1031 exchanges, have been an integral part of real estate investment for many years, dating back to the Revenue Act of 1921. While these rules have evolved over ...

What Section 1031 does. Section 1031 lets you defer tax when you swap one investment or business real estate for another, as long as both are real property held for investment or productive use. Since ...

At its core, a 1031 exchange is designed to accomplish one simple goal: to avoid taxes. But owners turn to 1031 exchanges to carry out a variety of business strategies. A retail owner might use an ...

With a 20-year career working in cost segregation, fixed assets and depreciation laws, I’ve seen quite a bit. My team and I have helped clients large and small navigate tax cuts, tax increases, new ...

Here’s the good news: The real estate your about-to-retire client owns has increased in value significantly since they bought it. The not-as-good news: If they were to sell that property, they’d ...

One proposal in President Joe Biden’s $1.8 trillion American Families Plan has been drawing close attention from concerned commercial real estate investors. It would place a $500,000 limit on 1031 ...

The enactment of the law known as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), P.L. 115-97, amended Sec. 1031 to apply only to exchanges of real property. Because of this change, the exchange of personal ...

It has been a while since we did a post on Section 1031 exchanges. Tax Reform eliminated the ability for using a tax-deferred exchange on personal property. For farmers in states without an income tax ...