Why President Trump’s Rich Friends Might Have Been Mad About The Tax Act
And then we come to acquiring a building. You and I each acquire $2,000.000 properties to run our business out of. In both cases the land is worth $500,000. You hire a cost segregation specialist to break out the five and fifteen year property. So maybe 30% of your $1.5 million in basis is depreciated more rapidly than the excruciatingly slow 39 year life that a building is written off over. Being penny wise and pound foolish, I begrudge the few thousand dollars to the tax savvy engineer. Does that mean that I have elected to depreciate the whole smash over 39 years?
Not in so many words, but that is effectively what Mr. Egerton and Mr. Weissenberg say is the case from a practical viewpoint. Why can’t I relying on the Cohan rule and do a kind of back of the envelope computation? If my client gets audited, let the IRS send in their own engineer. How wrong can it be?
The Baby Holm Case Is Not A Legitimate Sub-discipline Of Hovindology
The Baby Holm case seems to have taken a hold on Hovindologists. I have followed it pretty lightly. It is not a tax case which at however a removed level is the...
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Over and over again courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging one’s affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everybody does so, rich or poor; and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands: taxes are enforced exactions, not voluntary contributions. To demand more in the name of morals is mere cant.