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Review property basis, placed-in-service timing, use, ownership, and tax-position questions.
Cost segregation opportunity review
Your property may hold hidden depreciation value.
Cost segregation can reclassify qualifying building components into shorter depreciation lives, potentially accelerating deductions and improving near-term cash flow.
Request a Cost Seg ReviewFor owners and CPAs
Turn a technical tax question into a clear yes-or-no next step.
A cost segregation study analyzes the components of commercial or income-producing property and may move certain assets from 27.5-year or 39-year depreciation into shorter 5-, 7-, or 15-year categories.
Value Added Assets helps screen the opportunity, gather the right facts, and coordinate with experienced cost segregation specialists and the client's CPA or tax advisor.
Estimate the opportunity
See how accelerated depreciation can change first-year cash flow.
This calculator is educational and directional. A formal engineering-based study and your tax advisor determine actual classifications, eligibility, and tax effect.
Process
Built to make the CPA conversation easier.
Estimate
Identify whether a formal study is likely to produce meaningful savings compared with study cost.
Coordinate
Connect the owner and CPA with experienced cost segregation professionals for the formal work.
Implement
Help keep the process organized so the final study can support the tax filing conversation.
Good candidates
When cost segregation should be reviewed.
A commercial or income-producing property was recently acquired or placed in service.
Renovations, tenant improvements, or new construction created depreciable components.
The owner has tax capacity or planning needs that make accelerated depreciation worth exploring.
Cost segregation questions
Useful answers for owners, CPAs, investors, and advisors.
What is cost segregation?
Cost segregation is a tax-planning process that reviews components of commercial or income-producing property and may identify assets eligible for shorter depreciation lives.
Who should consider a cost segregation review?
Owners, investors, CPAs, and advisors should review cost segregation after a commercial purchase, renovation, tenant improvement project, new construction, or placed-in-service event.
Does Value Added Assets provide tax advice?
Value Added Assets helps screen and coordinate cost segregation opportunities. Clients should make tax filing decisions with their CPA or tax advisor.
What information is useful for a cost segregation quote?
Helpful details include property type, address, purchase price or construction cost, placed-in-service date, renovation history, ownership structure, and CPA contact information.
Start here
Request a cost segregation opportunity review.
Share the property, purpose, timing, and service needed. Rich will review the request and follow up directly with the right next step.