Category Archives: Real Estate
NY Times Story On Trump Taxes: The Internal Revenue Code Favors Real Estate Professionals but….
September 28, 2020
by Monte A. Jackel
I wrote a post yesterday evening on LinkedIn. Here is the link. https://www.linkedin.com/in/monte-jackel-18921024/detail/recent-activity/shares/. The text is reproduced below. I am not offering a view, one way or the other, on the merits of the matters discussed. Who could competently do that without adequate facts and requisite knowledge? But I can say that the tax law […]
Read MoreProposed Section 1031 Real Property Regulations Contain A Glitch
June 12, 2020
by Monte A. Jackel
The IRS recently proposed regulations relating to the definition of real property for purposes of section 1031. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/06/12/2020-11530/statutory-limitations-on-like-kind-exchanges. These proposed regulations state that a number of regulations under section 1031 will no longer apply unless the exchange involves a qualifying exchange of real property. Among those listed final regulations are reg. sec. 1.1031(d)-2, dealing with […]
Read MoreGrantor Trust Ownership Again
June 5, 2020
by Monte A. Jackel
The IRS very recently expressed its view that changes in the ownership percentages of investors in a multiple owner grantor trust were sales and purchases for federal tax purposes. In Rev. Proc. 2020-34 https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/rp-20-34.pdf, the IRS provided safe harbors for an entity titled a statutory trust under Delaware law from being treated as having the […]
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