Marc Wieder, CPA, is an accounting and audit partner at Anchin with over 30 years of experience servicing the accounting, business, and financial needs of real estate companies and their owners. He has extensive experience in the area of federal, state, local, personal and business taxes. As Co-Leader of the Real Estate Group at Anchin, Marc routinely helps to shed new light into the complex world of taxation, particularly as it relates to selling and acquiring real estate.
Cost segregation studies identify assets whose depreciable lives can be set at five, seven or 15 years, as opposed to the building they’re attached to, which would be depreciated over 27.5 or 39 years.
Since their introduction in 1997, cost segregation studies have allowed developers and property owners to accelerate their tax deductions through depreciation on both developments and acquisitions.…