Tax Tip: Renovation Benefits
This week's tax tip is provided by the Internal Revenue Service. We only have one more tax tip to share with you, so please stay tuned either via our blog or our newsletter. Thank you. Best- Pat Patrick
"The rehabilitation tax credit offers an incentive for owners to renovate and restore old or historic buildings. Tax reform legislation passed in December 2017 changed when the credit is claimed and provides a transition rule:
- The credit is 20 percent of the taxpayer’s qualifying costs for rehabilitating a building.
- The credit doesn’t apply to the money spent on buying the structure.
- The legislation now requires taxpayers take the 20 percent credit spread out over five years beginning in the year they placed the building into service.
- The law eliminates the 10 percent rehabilitation credit for pre-1936 buildings.
- A transition rule provides relief to owners of either a certified historic structure or a pre-1936 building by allowing owners to use the prior law if the project meets these conditions:
–The 24- or 60-month period selected by the taxpayer for the begins by June 20, 2018.
Taxpayers use Form 3468, Investment Credit, to claim the rehabilitation tax credit and a variety of other investment credits. Form 3468 instructionshave detailed requirements for completing the form. For more information on these forms and the tax credits, visit Rehabilitation Tax Credit - Real Estate Tax Tips and Internal Revenue Code Section 47. "
