Tag: Real Estate Shelter Trust
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Beware This “Abusive” Tax-Planning Trap; What to Do Instead
Recently we have talked to several advisors who have been pitched by promoters offering Deferred Sales Trusts – “DSTs” and Monetized Installment Sales – “MISTs.” Those are two names for basically the same scheme. The scheme (the IRS’ word, see below) is promoted as a tax deferral strategy. California has…
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Time to Get Out of New York Real Estate?
The New York Supreme Court, in the person of Judge Arthur Engoron, has caused an earthquake in the New York real estate market. Investors don’t like risk, and they particularly don’t like political risk. To a great many observers, the trial which resulted in Engoron’s ruling, a trial which some…
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Why Doesn’t Your Client Act? 4 Factors to Guide Financial Decision-Making
Advisors can spend hours explaining a great solution to their clients, only to have those clients not act on the solution. There’s no magic bullet. But sometimes clients appreciate it when their advisor helps them identify what’s making the decision hard. What makes a decision difficult? Decision analysts have found…
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Are Your Clients Choosing to Pay $2.5 Million in Unnecessary Taxes?
Every week, we meet with advisors who have a client who is choosing to pay two and a half million in taxes that could be permanently and legally avoided. Before you say that none of your clients would ever make such a choice, you might want to see why we…
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Too Much Risk in US Farmland?
Investor money is pouring into US farmland.[1] That flood of investor money is helping to push farmland prices to record-high levels, and farmland investment yields (as opposed to crop yields) are being pushed to record low levels. For people who have owned farmland for a long time, these factors mean…
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Breaking: Home Prices Have Peaked
Home prices are trending downwards in English-speaking countries like Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the US. This decline could present an opportunity for property owners to avoid hefty taxes through Sec. 664 Real Estate Shelter Trusts. The trust allows for tax-free property sales, with profits reinvested into trust assets.