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Jessica Martin
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Texas Real Estate Income Tax

Jessica Martin
  • Real Estate Investor
  • Houston, TX
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My husband and I are closing our first 2 wholesale deals soon. I'm wondering what to do about gov taxes on the income we receive. Do we hire a CPA? Or is it still simple enough that most people can still handle themselves? 

Should I just stick back a certain % of each deal for taxes? Maybe do some investing with it during the year to make more money on what I will give to the gov later? 

What do you do?

Since we started marketing in January, we have kept receipts of expenses. Anything else we should be doing to help ourselves out come tax time next year? 

Anyone have any recommendations as far as tax professionals in the North or East parts of Houston? Maybe someone I can go speak with that can really sit down with me and go over things? 

Thank you all in advance!

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Michael Roy
  • Real Estate Agent
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Michael Roy
  • Real Estate Agent
  • Fort Worth, TX
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Do you plan on doing more deals in the future? If so, there's no better time than now to start building a relationship with an accountant, especially one that specializes in real estate transactions. Yes, it's a bit pricey. But the long-run savings are more valuable. Not only will the accountant ensure that you file correctly, they also know of the potential write-offs, shields, etc. involved in real estate transactions.

Good job keeping your receipts for expenses, that's important. I don't have any recommendations for people in your area, but I strongly recommend you find someone. The only thing worse than paying an accountant is spending the many hours doing it yourself only to have the IRS come knocking on your door asking for more money or not knowing that there was a tax shelter you weren't aware and therefore didn't take advantage of.

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