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Article #262: 1031 Exchange Escaping the Certainty of Taxes

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'In this world', said the great Benjamin This type of property exchange operates
Franklin, 'nothing is certain but death under strict guidelines and an exacting
and taxes'. While modern medicine timetable. Once the original property is
continues to work on a cure for sold, a list of possible replacements
mortality, 1031 exchanges offer a must be supplied to the intermediary with
valuable mechanism against the foibles of forty-five days, while the exchange
the taxman. Allowing the exchange of one itself must be completed within one
property for another, this property hundred and eighty. The title to both
market trend can help you hold on to properties must remain intact throughout
money that might otherwise end up with the entire process, so this is not the
the IRS. How do you know whether you are time to dissolve any business
eligible to take advantage of this great partnerships that might be involved. Any
property trend? deviance from these strictures can
The first stipulation is that the two threaten the entire exchange process.
properties involved in the swap be in use The properties to be exchanged must also
for 'trade or productive purposes', that be what is described as 'like-kind',
is that they are moneymaking concerns of meaning that they are roughly comparable.
some kind, such as a rental property or This does not mean that the two
holiday home. The property intended for properties must echo one another
swapping must also reside in the US, entirely, it simply refers to the fact
though it can be located at any point that the property relinquished and the
within. one to be taken up must both be suitable
1031 exchanges necessitate the for use in a similar business or
involvement of what are known as investment related way.
Qualified Intermediaries, who deal with 1031 exchanges are not for use on
the paperwork involved in the switch, and residential homes, and so, for many
assume a role akin to a property people, are of little value. But if you
purchaser. The property to be exchanged own a business property and would like to
is handed over to this intermediary, move premises without losing a sum of
until the property owner locates a new money to the taxman, then a 1031 exchange
property, at which point the switch can might just be the right choice for you.
be made.






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