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Fixed Asset Consulting

Unlock tax savings, improve cash flow, and ensure compliance with IRS regulations for your clients 

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Fixed Asset Consulting aims to look through your client’s tax depreciation schedule to identify tax optimization opportunities. It helps ensure your clients capitalize only what is necessary and expense what is allowable, unlocking immediate tax savings, improving cash flow, and ensures compliance with IRS regulations.

This consulting can include Cost Segregation, Tangible Property Regulations (TPR) analysis, identification of Complete or Partial Asset Dispositions (PADS) and various other strategies for accelerated depreciation.

The deployment of these strategies can be beneficial for real estate clients as bonus depreciation continues to phase out.  

Why Partner with Source Advisors?

By partnering with Source Advisors, CPA firms can elevate their fixed asset consulting services and ensure that their clients are maximizing deductions and remaining compliant with IRS regulations.  

Complexity of TPR Regulations

The Tangible Property Regulations are highly technical and detailed, requiring expertise in tax law, engineering, and accounting. These regulations involve nuanced distinctions between capital expenditures and deductible repairs, which can be challenging to navigate without specialized knowledge. 

Need for Specialized Tools and Methodologies

Performing a comprehensive TPR study often requires advanced tools, cost-segregation expertise, and engineering-based analysis, which most CPA firms do not have readily available in-house. 

Risk Management

TPR studies involve a level of risk due to the potential for IRS scrutiny. Specialized firms like Source Advisors are experienced in defending their methodologies during audits, which reduces risk for the CPA firm and their clients. 

Value Enhancement

Real estate clients are aways looking for ways to minimize tax burden.  While many CPA firms simply do not possess the internal resources to adequately evaluate current and past years treatment of capital improvements, we can take on that burden and provide significant benefits – enhancing the relationship with their clients. 

How Can Source Advisors Help Your Clients Maximize Deductions on Expenses?

Immediate Expense Deductions for Repairs and Maintenance

A TPR study helps real estate owners distinguish between capital expenditures (which must be depreciated over time) and repairs and maintenance expenses (which can be fully deducted in the year incurred).  

  • TPR studies act as a complementary tool to cost segregation for your real estate clients who are seeking to maximize tax benefits, especially as bonus depreciation benefits diminish.
  • With the reduction in bonus depreciation rates, the ability to expense eligible repairs immediately becomes more valuable, offering immediate tax savings and improved cash flow. 

Maximizing Deductions for Partial Asset Dispositions

When a building improvement or renovation replaces an existing asset (e.g., a new roof or HVAC units), the TPR rules allow the owner to write off the remaining undepreciated value of the replaced asset. 

Strategic Benefits for Aging Properties

Properties requiring frequent repairs or renovations can especially benefit from TPR studies.

These studies help property owners:

  • Deduct expenses for recurring routine maintenance.
  • Deduct expenditures that are not considered an improvement to the building structure or building systems.
  • Reduce the taxable income impact of ongoing property upkeep.

Pairing TPR Studies with Cost Segregation

While bonus depreciation is declining, cost segregation studies still reclassify assets into shorter depreciable lives.

Combining this with TPR studies:

  • Identifies costs that can be expensed immediately through a safe harbor (e.g. de minimis safe harbor, routine maintenance) or as repair and maintenance.
  • Identifies assets originally placed in service that are partially or completely removed during the renovation.
  • Maximizes the tax benefits of both strategies, even without full bonus depreciation.

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Ready to amplify your client offerings and discover unclaimed tax savings? Contact us today to discuss a partnership or schedule a no-obligation consultation. Let Source Advisors be your partner in empowering financial success for your clients.