The $300,000 Log Book
Tuesday, November 14
My previous two blog posts were about Tax Court cases that ended unhappily for the tax payers. Before everyone starts thinking Tax Court is just a place where tax payers go to get bad news let me present a case with a happy ending. Sometimes tax payers get good news at Tax Court. Such was the cas...
Landing in a Tax Mess
Thursday, November 09
Depreciation tends to be one of the more vexing tax concepts for buy and hold real estate investors. It became particularly vexing for Sharon and Steve N. earlier this year when they lost their Tax Court case regarding the depreciation expense they claimed in 2012 on their 3 California rental pro...
Keeping Down with the Joneses
Tuesday, October 31
Is our general inability to delay gratification part of a larger societal issue, or are real estate investors just naturally impatient? Either way, nothing seems to get a rental property owner hopping mad faster than having suspended passive losses. Never mind that the only exception in the tax c...