It’s the oldest and simplest formula for accumulating wealth: Live the “buy low, sell high” dream by acquiring, holding and then selling property at a tidy profit. Unfortunately, resulting capital ...

A 1031 exchange is a tax-deferred exchange where a taxpayer sells one or more real estate assets held for productive use in a trade or business or for investment (referred to as the "relinquished ...

Like-kind real estate exchanges, or 1031 exchanges, have been an integral part of real estate investment for many years, dating back to the Revenue Act of 1921. While these rules have evolved over ...

UPDATE: While real estate investors were worried, the like-kind exchanges did not appear in the House Ways and Means Reconciliation Bill released on September 15, 2021. While this does not guarantee ...

A 1031 Like-Kind Exchange, named after Section 1031 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, is a strategic investment tool that allows real estate investors to defer capital gains tax on the sale of a ...

The Fiscal Year 2016 Budget proposes a modification of like-kind exchange transactions. As in the Fiscal Year 2015 Budget, the Administration proposes to limit the amount of capital gain deferred ...

Restricting like-kind exchanges to assets worth less than $500,000 is a relatively small part of the package of tax increases that Biden proposed to pay for his $1.8 trillion American Families Plan, ...

Using cash in a like-kind exchange is similar to passing around the proverbial "hot potato" - you don't want to be the one holding the potato, i.e., the cash, at the end of the transaction. If you do ...

The 2017 tax season is officially underway, and one of the hottest topics among cryptocurrency investors is the possible application of Section 1031 to defer capital gains on crypto-to-crypto trades.

Financial and investment advisers should seek to understand the implications of a legislative proposal originally set forth in the American Families Plan that would severely limit benefits ...