Cost Segregation
Front-Load Depreciation on the Property You Already Own
A cost segregation study breaks a building into its parts and depreciates the faster-wearing ones on a shorter schedule. That moves deductions forward, cuts this year's tax bill, and puts cash back in your hands sooner.
Cost Segregation
$7,500
one-time engineering study
For whom
Owners of commercial buildings & rental property
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The work
The short version
Most owners depreciate a building as one number over a long horizon. An engineering-based cost segregation study takes that building apart on paper — flooring, fixtures, wiring, parking, landscaping, specialty plumbing — and assigns the shorter-lived components their own faster depreciation schedules. The result is a larger deduction in the early years of ownership instead of a thin one stretched across decades.
The study is engineering-based, not a guess. It's documented to support the deductions you claim, and we coordinate it directly with your tax return so the numbers land where they belong. It works for commercial buildings and for residential investment property, and it's most worth running when you've recently bought, built, or renovated.
What's included
What you get.
Engineering-based study
A component-by-component breakdown of your property that reclassifies assets into their correct, shorter depreciation lives.
Front-loaded deductions
Larger write-offs in the early years of ownership instead of the same deduction spread thin across decades.
Documented to support the claim
A study documented component by component so the depreciation lives you claim are backed up if the IRS asks.
Coordinated with your return
We fold the study's results into your tax return so the reclassified depreciation is applied correctly.
Commercial and residential investment property
The study works for commercial buildings and for residential rentals held as investments, not just one or the other.
Flat, upfront price
A one-time fee quoted before any work starts, so you know the cost against the savings going in.
Who it's for
Is this you?
This is for owners of commercial buildings and residential investment property who are collecting their depreciation far too slowly. It fits best if you've bought, built, or significantly renovated a property in recent years and want to pull deductions forward instead of waiting decades for them. The bigger the building and the higher your tax bracket, the more a study tends to return.
- You own a commercial building or a rental property held as an investment
- You recently bought, built, or renovated and haven't run a study
- Your depreciation is a single line stretched across decades
- You want to cut this year's tax bill and free up cash sooner
How it works
How working with us goes.
Free analysis
We start with a call to look at the property, what you paid, and when you placed it in service — then tell you whether a study is worth it for you.
The engineering study
The property is broken into its components and each is assigned its correct depreciation life, with documentation built to back up every number.
Applied to your return
We coordinate the results with your tax filing so the front-loaded deductions show up where they should and the cash benefit lands this year.
FAQ
Cost Segregation, in plain terms
What kinds of property qualify for a cost segregation study?
Both commercial buildings and residential property held as an investment. It's most worth running on property you've bought, built, or renovated, and the benefit generally grows with the size of the building and your tax bracket. We confirm whether it makes sense for your specific property on the first call.
Is the study documented well enough if the IRS looks at it?
That's the point of doing it as an engineering-based study. The work is documented component by component so the reclassified depreciation lives are supported. Because we're a firm of licensed CPAs and IRS Enrolled Agents, we can also represent you before the IRS if questions ever come up.
How does the study connect to my actual tax return?
We coordinate the study with your return rather than handing you a report and walking away. The reclassified depreciation is applied to your filing so the front-loaded deductions actually reach your tax bill, and because we handle tax preparation in-house, the study and the return stay in sync.
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