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24 May 2019

Tax Director, Real Estate Investment Trust

We are currently conducting a search to locate a Tax Director for an international client on the east or west coast. If you know of any tax executive with strong knowledge of real estate reits, please forward this opportunity on to them for their review. We will be happy to provide more detailed information and maintain a high level of privacy for anyone with REIT tax expertise.

Provide leadership and direction for all domestic and international tax planning, tax provision and tax compliance activities for a REIT.
Oversee and direct a team responsible for FIN 48 and FAS 109 tax provision calculations and estimates, including DTA/DTL analysis, tax footnotes and related disclosures contained in quarterly and annual filings.
Oversee and direct tax return preparation and the review and the submission of federal, state, local and consolidated tax returns. Read More

Written by Kat Jennings | Posted in REIT • TaxConnections

06 Jan 2016

Tax To Do List For The Upcoming Filing Season

If you’re looking for things to do to get ready for the upcoming filing season or want to check your list against another, I have one for you. Please see “Preparing for the 2016 Filing Season,” AICPA Tax Insider, 12/17/15.

The article was written before passage of the extenders and appropriations tax package. Here is a list of links to that legislation you may find useful along with a list of some items for immediate consideration.

P.L. 114-113 (12/18/15) – H.R. 2029, Consolidated Appropriations Act 2016 – includes appropriations and other changes along with the Protecting Americans from Tax Hikes Act of 2015 (PATH), which is the extenders bill.

NOTE ON EXTENDERS: The bulk of the tax changes are in PATH, although a few, including a two year extension of Read More

Written by Annette Nellen | Posted in Tax Payments • Tax Return • Tax Tips

10 Nov 2015

CFO Wanted With REIT Expertise

CFO Wanted With REIT Expertise (Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas)

We are currently conducting a search for a CFO who will be accountable for the administrative, financial, and risk management operations of the company, to include the development of a financial and operational strategy, metrics tied to that strategy, and the ongoing development and monitoring of control systems designed to preserve company assets and report accurate financial results. Principal accountabilities are:

Planning

1. Assist in formulating the company’s future direction and supporting tactical initiatives Read More

Written by Kat Jennings | Posted in Tax Jobs • TaxConnections

07 Sep 2013

REITs – A South African perspective as an OTC investment option

Real Estate Investment Trusts or REITs is a well known internationally known appropriate business structure yet South Africa only adopted its tax law as of April 1st, 2013 and its stock exchange listed or publicly listed trading rules to accommodate REIT’s as of May 1st, 2013.

Since then many property groups not only converted to a listed REIT but also restructured their balance sheets to remove the debt linked to a unit or a share. Now, on September 6th, the first American Depositry Receipt (ADR) status was granted to a South African listed REIT. One ADR unit equals 10 REIT units on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Despite the ZA Rand being at a 3 week high, the more recent currency exchange is circa R10=1U$D.

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)

REIT’s are tax transparent or tax through flow investment vehicles that invest in and derive their income from real estate properties and mortgage, without necessarily paying tax on their trade result. To qualify for the South African REIT dispensation, a the REIT (either a company or a trust) must be tax resident in South Africa and be listed as an REIT in terms of the JSE (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) listing requirements.

REIT profits are distributed as tax deductible expenses (effectively pre-tax income) which is then received and taxed in the investors’ hands as taxable dividend income. As of 1 January 2014 the SA dividend withholding tax at 15% or the treaty governed rate where the investor is resident in a treaty country, will apply to nonresident investors. Read More