When President Joe Biden presented his administration's proposed budget for fiscal year 2023, he again included a new tax rule that would essentially eliminate 1031 exchanges, or like-kind exchanges, which are widely used to lower taxes for those buying and selling commercial real estate.
If Biden is able to get the budget past with the new rule in place — capping the capital gains deferral at $500K for an individual and $1M for a couple — real estate experts say it could spell disaster for an already-challenged industry and for the U.S. economy.
After two years of pain from the pandemic’s effects on the real estate industry, with inflation at the highest it has been in a generation and interest rates already on the rise, Engineered Tax Services founder and CEO Julio Gonzalez said the proposal, if enacted, would cause a major slowdown for the…
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