Examples of Commercial Buildings
Examples of commercial buildings include industrial, warehouses, manufacturing, offices, shopping centers, supermarkets, retail, restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, entertainment, auto dealerships, self-storage, hospitality, hospitals, MOB’s, etc. Apartments and rental homes are considered a residential property that qualifies for a shorter building depreciation life than commercial buildings.
How to Use Commercial Real Estate Depreciation
Below is an example of how commercial real estate depreciation works:
The plumbing costs associated with installing a 3/4″ copper pipe connected to a restroom sink in a supermarket building must be depreciated over 39 years. That same 3/4″ pipe installed to a bakery sink qualifies as a 5-year write-off. The restroom sink is related to the operation of a building, the bakery sink is related to the taxpayers business. All buildings, commercial or residential, will require repairs over time. Anyone who has owned a commercial or residential rental property for any length of time knows that it will need maintenance, repairs, and renovations as the years go by. Tax legislation known as the Tangible Property Regulations (TPR) allows building owners to dispose of assets as they are replaced.
Take Advantage of IRS Allowed Tax Benefits to Owners of Commercial & Residential Rental Properties Utilizing a Cost Segregation Study.
The only way to have these components segregated is to have a detailed engineering-based Cost Segregation study performed on your property. The professionals at McGuire Sponsel provide hundreds of CPA firms and clients across the country with our engineering approach to Cost Segregation, which includes our work paper documentation and detailed engineering-based report that has survived IRS Audits for nearly 25 years.
BONUS: The IRS allows current building owners to go back as far as 1986 and “catch up” on the depreciation they should have been deducting from the day the property was placed in service WITHOUT AMENDING PRIOR TAX RETURNS.
All of the additional depreciation found as a result of our detailed engineering-based approach is taken in the year of the election.
To discover how McGuire Sponsel can help you with accelerating the depreciation on your commercial or residential properties, contact us.
