For CPAs and others who prepare federal income tax reports - we offer a federal income tax saving opportunity for your clients who own investment real estate. Walker Bryce & Associates regularly partners with the accounting profession in order to open various avenues of tax savings to its clients. Our core service, and the foundation for many such opportunities, is the cost segregation approach to depreciating improved commercial real estate. In order to assist property owners, we routinely request CPA involvement even before our services are engaged, and continue those lines of communication throughout our technical analysis and report issuance. At your suggestion, your clients may benefit greatly from Walker Bryce's  modestly priced cost segregation reports. In fact, there is often a 50% to 100% increase in annual depreciation as a result of precisely measuring the 5, 7 and 15-year property. Cost segregation affects both tax reduction and deferred payment of federal income taxes. Some real estate investors initially believe cost segregation only defers payment of income taxes. However, by converting the character of income from ordinary income to capital gains income, it also sharply reduces the tax rate. The character of the income changes since the additional depreciation shields ordinary income from taxes. When the purchase price is allocated upon sale, most of the gain is typically allocated to land and long life property (instead of short-life property) Rev Proc 2002-9, in combination with a change of accounting method, allows owners a spectacular additional amount of depreciation the first year. This makes cost segregation extremely attractive for owners of commercial real estate who pay substantial federal income taxes. It is possible to catch up all the depreciation in the first year without filing an amended return (481a adjustment rule), so there is little additional time or cost involved for your client. Walker Bryce & Associates is proud to partner with accounting and tax consulting firms across the United States.  We act as an extension of our partner firms to provide a valuable service to their clients that they do not have the internal resources to provide.  Our partner firms find that partnering with us and providing Cost Segregation services gives them an advantage in a competitive market. *We are not a CPA firm.  This is important to consider when   choosing a Cost Segregation firm.  It is to our benefit to help you maintain a strong relationship with your clients without the fear of introducing another CPA firm.   Click here to request a free, no-obligation analysis for your client(s)

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