Improvements and updates to Aggressive Tax Avoidance for Real Estate Investors 19th edition by John T. Reed

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Improvement or updates to the 19th edition (2009)

• Vehicle sales tax deduction
• "First-time" home buyer credit (technically not just for first-timers)
• Additional first-year depreciation
• Section 179 first-year expensing
• Debt-forgiveness income

Improvement or update since the 18th edition (2004)

• Update of the American Bar Association Code of Professional Conduct regarding lawyer fees
• Updated recommended tax advisors list and Best Lawyers in America source
• Bakersfield Energy Partners and Grapevine Imports decisions in which court refused to apply six-year statute of limitations to 25% understatement of tax owed
• Updated list of states that authorize Limited Liability Companies
• Updated discussion of the rules pertaining to changing your place of employment, health, or other unforeseen circumstances with regard to the $250,000 per spose homeowner long-term capital gains exclusion
• 2007 law establishing deductibility of mortgage insurance premiums on principal and second residences
• Discharge of indebtedness income rules from the Omnibus Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 and Mortgage Forgiveness Debt Relief Act of 2007

* Revenue Procedure 2002-22 regarding conversion to tenancies in common - 5/02
* IRS guidelines on unforseen home sales - 9/02
* Deduction of roof replacement - 10/02
* Jack Chien Ching Huang decision on home office - 12/02
* Regs TD 9030 and 9031 regarding prorating less than 2 years occupancy - 1/03
* Regs TD 9030 and 9031 regarding land around home - 11/03
* Letter Ruling 200303023 re partition out of tenancy in common - 2/03
* Jobs and Growth Tax Relief Reconcilation Act of 2003 - 6/03

Improvements or updates since the 16th edition (1/98)

• Additional case histories of exchange intermediary embezzlers - 5/30/01
• Back-dated exchange documents court decision - 5/30/01
• Tenants-in-common exchange letter ruling - 5/30/01
• More details on $250,000-per-person home-gain exclusion - 5/30/01
• Corrected error regarding first-year expensing in depreciation example chapter - 5/30/01
• Update discussion of computer software for doing taxes - 5/30/01
• More details on interplay between $250,000-per-person home-gain exclusion and depreciation where home was converted to or from rental - 5/30/01
• Conversion of ownership entity for exchange purposes letter ruling - 5/30/01
• New, free online resources for tax research - 5/30/01
• Use of special IRS procedure to claim back depreciation - 5/30/01
• Interplay between IRC §1031 and IRC §1033 when threat of condemnation - 5/30/01
• New home-office-deduction rules - 5/30/01
• Details on interplay between overseas employment and $250,000-per-person home-gain exclusion - 5/30/01
• New, shorter depreciation lives for personal property - 5/30/01
• The serial-home-selling strategy - 5/30/01
• Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999 - 5/30/01

• Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 - 5/30/01
• New rules regarding recovery period after exchange - 5/30/01
• Installment Sale Correction Act of 2000 - 5/30/01
• Taking cash early when exchange falls through - 5/30/01
• Tax-free dissoloution of group ownership - 5/30/01
• New IRS approval of reverse-exchange “safe harbor” - 5/30/01
• New IRS incidence of audit rates - 5/30/01
• New lower long-term captial gains tax rates - 5/30/01
• Effect on $250,000-per-person home-gain exclusion of use of living trusts - 5/30/01
• Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 - 6/13/01
• Correct entertainment expense percentage deductibel from 80% to 50% - 2/4/02
• Add article on limited liability companies to take-title chapter - 2/4/02
• Allocation of land value in condominiums - 3/4/02
• 30% Bonus depreciation added by Job Creation and Workers Assistance Act of 2002 - 4/9/02
• Increase in car depreciation added by Job Creation and Workers Assistance Act of 2002 - 4/9/02
• Depreciation limits for electric cars and vehicles over 6,000 pounds - 4/10/02
• Depreciation limits for 2001 on vehicles - 4/10/02
• 150% declining balance depretiation percentages on 5-year property - 4/10/02
• Vehicle limits on first-year expensing - 4/10/02
• Rules regarding first-year vehicle decisions and changes in percentage of business use in subsequent years - 4/10/02
• Replace offshore trusts with bankruptcy and pension planning as asset protection measures - 5/21/02
• Clarify deductibility of interest when live off refinancing - 5/22/02
• Tax-free selling of rental property when suspended losses cover gain - 5/22/02