Previously, we attempted to take the air out of the most common argument owners make for ignoring the planning necessary to successfully exit their companies: They believe that their businesses aren’t worth enough to meet their financial needs. “When it is,” they claim, “that’s when I’ll think about leaving.”
Like every owner, you will one day exit your business—voluntarily or involuntarily. On that day you will want to attain certain business and personal objectives: the first (and usually prerequisite to all others) is financial security.
If you are a small business owner, October 15, 2015, is your last chance to retroactively adopt the new tangible property regulations that took effect in 2014.
Why is adopting these new regulations important? They give you the opportunity to expense items that you had capitalized (depreciated) in years for which the three-year statute of limitations has not yet expired. As an example, say you are a landlord, and you replaced the roof on your rental at a cost $6,000 in 2012. Prior to the new regulations, that expense would have been treated as a capital expense, and you would have had to depreciate it (deduct it slowly), over 27½ or 39 years. However, under the new regulations, the expense of replacing the roofing membrane is fully deductible in the year the cost was incurred. Read More
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