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689: Landlord Tax Loopholes That’ll Help You Pay ZERO Taxes in 2022 w/Matt Bontrager

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What Is a Cost Segregation Study?

A cost segregation study is really an evaluation and a cost segregate report of this piece of property you just purchased. It's basically taking what you paid for something that cost and segregating it into these smaller buckets so that when they're done, you literally take that PDF report, stash it away, give a copy to your accountant so that they can do your tax return correctly. Bonus depreciation and depreciation alone is the holy grail for people in real estate. So if you put 10,000 down on a house, you can get a way larger depreciation expense just because it's based on the purchase price, not based on how much money you put down.

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