Can a Foreign Investor Enter Into a Like-Kind Exchange Transaction (a 1031 Transaction) and Avoid Paying Income Tax on the Sale (Part 1)

 By Michael W. Brooks, Esq. As with US persons, non-US persons and parties (“Foreign Investors”) are allowed to enter into Internal Revenue Code Section 1031 (like-kind exchange) transactions. Foreign Investor exchanges allow owners of investment and business real estate to delay paying income tax on the appreciation of the property being sold (the “relinquished property”), provided the owner identifies a “replacement property” within 45 days of the sale of the relinquished property, and completes the purchase of the replacement property within 180 days of the sale of the relinquished property. This allows the person (even a Foreign Investor) to avoid paying the US (and California) tax on the sale of the relinquished property, but the investor will carry a lower basis from the relinquished property into the replacement property. Take the example of a Chinese person who purchases an investment property (used as a rental property) in…

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