Commercial Property Tax Incentives
Engineered based cost segregation studies permit commercial real estate owners to reclassify real property for depreciation purposes and reclassify as more rapidly depreciating personal property. This reclassification results in significant cashflow benefits in both present and future years through considerably shorter depreciation tax life and accelerated depreciation methods. In 2004 the IRS released the Audit and Technique Guideline, making clear the expected process of performing a successful Cost Segregation Study. This opened the doors for many small and midsize companies to begin taking advantage of what was previously only pursued by larger companies.