Ask a CPA: Top 15 Opportunity Zone Tax Questions Video

At Urban Catalyst, we’re constantly looking for ways to help investors make savvy investment decisions. That’s why our SVP of Investor Relations, Morgan Mackles, recently sat down with CPA Nick Gibbons to discuss the Top 15 Opportunity Zone Tax Questions.

As Partner and Director of Tax at Armanino, Nick has more than 17 years of experience in corporate taxation, Opportunity Zones and cryptocurrency. In this video, he offers his insights into the most commonly asked tax questions by investors about the Opportunity Zone tax program.

In addition to giving a rich overview of the genesis of Qualified Opportunity Zones, Nick also went into great detail about the IRS code which covers Opportunity Zones.

Watch the video to get answers to the following questions:

1. What’s the origin of the Opportunity Zone Tax Program and where is it within the IRS code?
2. What are the main tax benefits?
3. Why capital gains and not ordinary income?
4. Why does the IRS have a 180-day deadline to make an investment?
5. What happens with the taxes for an initial capital gain?
6. What happens if original gain was STG instead of LTG?
7. How do the losses work? (early years)
8. How does depreciation work? (middle and end years)
9. Is the refi distribution taxable? Why? How exactly does this work?
10. When the tax comes due on the original invested gain may I offset the gain with capital losses, even if they're incurred post the investment??
11. Can you provide specifics on the 10 year minimum hold, and what they entail? What was IRS reasoning?
12. How does the tax work AFTER the 10 year seasoning is done?
13. What is the tax implication for the investor of partnership OZ vs REIT OZ?
14. California is a non-conforming state to the OZ legislation- how does that affect in-state and out-of-state investors?
15. What tax forms do investors need to submit to let the federal government, the state government know that they've invested in a Qualified Opportunity Fund?

Have questions we didn’t cover? Contact us and a member of our team will be happy to help. 

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