The Rehabilitation Tax Credit: What Historic Building Owners Should Know
The Historic Tax Credit (HTC) program, also known as the Rehabilitation Tax Credit, encourages individuals and business to invest in the rehabilitation of historic buildings. The tax reform legislation passed in December of 2017 allows these building owners to claim 20 percent of eligible improvement expenses against their federal tax liability. It is an incentive … Read More
Press Release: Women in Leadership – Los Angeles CPA Firm KROST Names So Sum Lee, CPA Principal
Los Angeles, California – February 7, 2019 – Los Angeles-based tax, accounting, and consulting firm, KROST, recently promoted So Sum Lee, CPA to Principal. So Sum, an industry veteran, who has 20 years of experience in tax and accounting, specializes in matters relating to real estate, restaurants, technology, entertainment and wholesale. So Sum joins seven … Read More
The Impact of TCJA on Cost Segregation & Like-Kind Exchange
Below is a preview of one of the articles in the new KROST QUARTERLY Real Estate Issue, titled “The Impact of TCJA on Cost Segregation & Like-Kind Exchange” by So Sum Lee, CPA: Like-kind exchange has been a popular tax deferral tool for decades. Under IRC 1031, a taxpayer can defer tax on gain from … Read More
How to Co-ordinate Cost Segregation with Like-kind Exchange
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) was signed by the President on December 22, 2017. The TCJA is the most significant overhaul of Internal Revenue Tax code since the 1986 Tax Act under President Reagan. The Committee Report has over a thousand pages of modifications to many areas of the tax code. One piece … Read More
Tax Benefit Rule – Recovery of Previous Deduction Could Be Non-Taxable
Most people are familiar with Benjamin Franklin’s famous phrase “nothing is certain except death and taxes”. We are paying all sort of taxes on a daily basis such as sales tax, income tax, property tax, etc. Even after we die, there may be death taxes to be paid. Can anything escape from being taxed? In … Read More
De Minimis Capitalization Election
The IRS has implemented the tangible property regulations (TPRs) (T.D. 9689) effective for taxable years ending on or after January 1, 2014. This new guidance determines whether certain expenditures are required to be capitalized or expensed. The TPRs provide de minimis safe harbor for taxpayer to deduct up to $2,500 of expenditures (or $5,000 if … Read More
