Tax planning only works when you act before the year closes. Every fall, business owners repeat the same mistake: “I’ll deal with taxes at the end of the year.” By December, most high-value strategies are no longer available.

Waiting until the last minute often means missing opportunities that can save tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Today we’re zeroing in on a powerful—but often misunderstood—tax strategy: and that’s ACCELERATING DEPRECIATION through a cost segregation study, typically on Real Estate, but can also be on other capital assets like equipment, machinery, vehicles - commonly known as business assets - it’s what I like to call paper loss tax shields.  Why do we call it a paper loss?  Because you create a tax deduction that you’re not fully paying out in cash - unlike many other tax deductions where cash has to leave your bank account for you to get that deduction.