How to Optimize Fixed Asset Disposal to Improve Your Cash Flow We all know that renovations are costly, but investors often don’t realize that they can recover quite a bit of cash during the renovation process. How? By correctly calculating and recording the...
How to Recover Overpaid Taxes Immediately with a Look-Back Study
Don’t Pay More Than You Owe. Recover Overpaid Taxes This Year. Need to increase your cash flow and improve your agility immediately? Many business leaders are looking for smart ways to neutralize inflation, high labor costs, supply chain delays, and a looming...
4 Key Tax Strategies to Generate Cash Flow
The past few years have brought considerable changes to the tax codes. The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act), Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), and Energy Policy Act (EPACT) offer immense opportunities for companies to accelerate or increase...
Top 9 Cash Flow Planning Tips
It’s financial reporting and tax time. Do you want more write-offs to offset income? Are you struggling to get more cash flow? Are you mired too deeply in other activities to do something about this? Let us help you. Here are nine Cash Flow Planning Tips that are sure...
Maximize Bonus Depreciation and Increase Cash Flow – Before it Expires
In an effort to encourage commercial investment and stimulate the economy, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Economic Security Act of 2020 (CARES Act), allow for additional and/or accelerated depreciation tax deductions. These...
What is Cost Segregation? Answers to Top 8 Questions
Savvy tax professionals are familiar with different methods for accelerating tax depreciation, but not all are familiar with cost segregation. “What is Cost Segregation?” is a question that we hear from even the most seasoned tax people. Or they might be familiar with...
Economic Benefits of a Complete Fixed Asset Management Solution
Implementing a complete fixed asset management solution increases return on investment (ROI) through tax and insurance savings, and productivity improvements – and generates valuable cash flow for the company. Pitfalls of Poor Asset Management Many companies overpay...
10 Reasons Why Engineering-Based Cost Segregation Studies Are Better
You may know that cost segregation can help to reduce your tax liability. But did you know that not all cost segregation studies are created equal? The IRS prefers accounting-based studies, because, of course, your tax liability is higher – and you pay them more...
Maximize Purchase Price Allocation Tax Benefits
One of the fallouts of the COVID pandemic is the influx of distressed commercial properties for sale. This is especially true for the industries hardest hit by the resulting lock downs and ensuing recession, such as hospitality and retail. People had to shelter in...
Mastering Your Fixed Assets: Comprehensive Fixed Asset Lifecycle Planning
The process of managing a fixed asset begins before the asset is acquired. Companies and their fixed asset managers need to think about the entire fixed asset lifecycle – from acquisition to transfer and ultimately disposal. Unfortunately, that isn’t always the case....
Mastering Your Fixed Assets: Ghost and Zombie Assets
Ghosts and Zombies. Yikes! They’re two hidden enemies – and not just in the movies. Many companies are familiar with the concepts of ghost and zombie assets, but fail to fully grasp the depth of the risks they pose to an organization. What are Ghost and Zombie Assets?...
Mastering Your Fixed Assets: Fixed Asset Inventory Tracking Strategy
Many organizations rely on their fixed assets as the lifeblood of the company. All too often, they don’t pay much attention to their fixed assets and lack the resources to track those assets and maintain an accurate inventory. Fixed asset inventory tracking is often...
Section 179D Energy Tax Deduction Now Permanent
The Section 179D Energy Tax Deduction is now permanent. You no longer have to worry about expirations and rely on extensions. The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, signed into law at the end of December 2020, made permanent the Energy Efficient Commercial...
Get a Tax Refund with a Cost Segregation Look-Back Study
Does your company have previously overpaid taxes that you would like to recover – and potentially get a tax refund? A Cost Segregation Look-Back Study is a valuable, often overlooked tool for companies to recover overpaid taxes. The Study identifies misclassified or...
What’s New in Sage Fixed Assets 2021.0 – Features and Enhancements
The new Sage Fixed Assets 2021.0 was released in early November, which is earlier than usual. This is great, because it incorporates Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act of 2020 (CARES Act) tax provisions, and includes new features, enhancements and...
Paragon Featured in Business Ledger: Tax Code, CARES Act & Immediate Cash Flow
The Daily Herald Business Ledger, suburban Chicago’s premier business publication, featured stories about how businesses and landlords are adapting the workplace for the COVID-19 world. Paragon’s CEO and Founder, Rick Swarts, was tapped to share his expertise. In...