As a successful business, you’ve always counted on Small Business Resources to help you grow your business. In fact, you recently parlayed some earnings into a small rental and discovered that the IRS came out with a new ruling that’s favorable to a mom-and-pop rental owner like yourself.
Before the IRS gave us their 1986 ruling limiting passive losses, many rental investors questioned the viability of owning a rental if they couldn’t use it to reduce their taxes.
But, the IRS seemingly gave a nod to the small rental investor with its January 1, 2014 ruling. It can save landlords up to $3,500 in yearly taxes by allowing immediate expense of improvements, repairs and maintenance expenses.
The old way: IRC Section 263(a)…
The old laws required property owners to capitalize a bunch of expenses that were considered property improvements. In other words, filers had to apply a ‘useful life’ to the item and amortize the expense over the duration.
The old way: IRC section 162(a)…
Ideally, landlords can take a full expense deduction for the year it was incurred, as long as it was considered to be necessary for conducting business: ordinary an necessary expenses, it’s called.
Today, investors can opt for what’s called the Repair Allowance method, which reflects a ratified simplification of the IRS ruling.
Consequently, all improvement, repair and maintenance expenses can be taken; this, versus being forced to capitalize an expense up to 30 years.
“And the limit is…”
It’s one of those lesser-than calculations, where it’s the lesser of ten-grand…or 2% of the un-adjusted cost of your property. Check out the Federal Register posting on this topic.
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