Question: How can my rental real estate property qualify for the 199A QBI deduction?
Answer: The age-old CPA answer of “it depends” certainly applies here. To qualify for the 20 percent deduction, your enterprise has to, as a threshold, be a trade or a business. So whether a real estate rental is a trade or a business is a thing that matters like… Can analysis be worthwhile?
Real estate management companies that want to distinguish themselves should be looking at IRS Notice 2019-07. That is the main lesson of today’s post, but it also applies to tax preparers and self-sufficient owners. There is something new to keep track of, and it is a lot easier if you do it as you go rather than after the fact.
I’ve got something here for preparers and property managers, when acting sooner rather than later will be helpful. It’s theory is it is easier to collect information actively when it is fresh, rather than a year or more later as often happens in tax work.
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