Have you purchased a property or completed
an extensive retrofit in the last 10 years?
Do you know if you're maximizing your cash
flow and minimizing your tax burden? If you
haven't had Alternative Utility Services
conduct an Engineered Cost Segregation study,
then you're probably not, which means you're
leaving hundreds of thousands of dollars on
the table.
So what is Engineered Cost Segregation?
You can think of it as itemizing your depreciation
schedule. Much as you would itemize your income
tax deductions to minimize your income taxes,
engineered cost segregation allows you to
itemize your depreciation schedule based on
your property's improvements to maximize
your depreciation deduction and lower your
taxes.
Buildings are usually depreciated over 27.5
to 39 years, depending on their use, and traditional
depreciation simply lumps all of your building's
improvements together and depreciates them
over this extended period. This depreciation
reduces your tax burden on a straight line
each year until you fully depreciated your
building. The savings are good, but they're
not the best.
With a Engineered Cost Segregation Study,
many of your buildings improvements could
be depreciated in 5, 7, or 15 years, so you
get money back in your pocket faster, and
the AUS cost segregation study will find these
opportunities. An experienced engineer will
analyze your improvements and reclassify them
as directed by the IRS. Several improvements
qualify for accelerated depreciation, allowing
you to see significant tax savings in the
first year. Armed with this data, we work
with your accountants to refile past tax returns
and prepare your upcoming filings.
The end result? A dramatically lower tax bill.
Engineered Cost Segregation has almost seven
times as much savings in the first year and
almost three times as much in year 4 compared
to Traditional Depreciation.
So talk to Alternative Utility Services today
about a complimentary engineered cost segregation
benefit analysis that will show how much you
can reduce your taxes and grow your business.
