Real Estate Taxation
How To Factor In Taxes When Considering Special Needs Trusts / (ABLE) Accounts
Cameron L. Hess was recently interviewed by Financial Advisor Magazine on the topic of the financial vehicles used ...
Proposition 19 Brings Substantial Changes to California’s Property Tax Assessment Rules
On November 3, 2020, California voters approved Proposition 19 which brings substantial changes to California’s property tax assessment ...
California Revises Form 593 – Real Estate Withholding Statement
For California real estate sales not otherwise exempt, there is a mandatory 3 1/3% withholding requirement from the ...
PROPERTY TAX REDUCTIONS & COVID-19 FOR 2020
Property Tax Reductions Does COVID-19 provide an opportunity for a California property tax reduction? Possibly and sometimes, but ...
Robin Klomparens receives the 2019 Joanne M. Garvey Award
Robin L. Klomparens received the Joanne M. Garvey Award to recognize her lifetime achievement and outstanding contribution in ...
Qualified Opportunity Zone Investments: Distribution Waterfalls
The Qualified Opportunity Zone program was enacted through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. The Department of ...
Eversheds Sheds Light on Swart Decision
In what is likely to be ultimately released as a precedential decision, the Office of Tax Appeals in ...
Should You or Shouldn’t You Dissolve an LLC When the Business Is Over?
Originally published in the California Business Law Reporter - March 2019 - Volume 40 - Number 5. ...
Musings on Implications of the Repeal of the Technical Termination Provisions Under IRC 708 for 1031 Exchanges
The real estate industry customarily uses limited liability companies or limited partnerships(herein “partnerships”) to hold real estate assets ...
Breaking Up is Hard to Do | Comstock’s Magazine Article
Before big-time Sacramento developer Mort Friedman passed away in 2012, he handed the keys of the family business ...
Community property and spousal transfers
The 2014 decision by the California Supreme Court in In re Marriage of Valli, 58 Cal.4th 1396 (Valli) ...
New Tax Law and How It Affects the Real Estate Industry
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (ACT) has produced probably the greatest tax law changes in 30-years. In ...
Section 199A: To Be or Not to Be a Trade or Business
The fickle Section 199 domestic production deduction, which benefitted the real estate construction industry, has left us like ...
Capitalize, Amortize or Deduct Adjusting for a New Recipe (263(a))
In an imaginary, taxpayer-friendly world, everything that is bought, acquired or paid for could be deducted at the ...
Issues With Joint Ownership
When two or more persons decide to acquire property, a number of questions arise with respect to joint ...
Real Estate Problems and Solutions
For an offline PowerPoint copy of this presentation on co-tenancy versus partnership, click here to download. Real Estate: ...
Real Estate in Corporations: Don’t Do It!
To view this presentation on corporate ownership of real estate, click here to download a PowerPoint copy. Real ...
Capitalize, Amortize or Deduct – Adjusting for a New Recipe (263(a))
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Capitalization Regulations – To Infinity and Beyond!
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Honey, I Forgot About the Income Tax!
For an offline copy of this presentation on income tax considerations in estate planning, click here to download ...
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