Questions about covering property taxes with depreciation

[Andrew Gomez]

I own a trucking company (semi trucks) and a few of them i have personally guaranteed and appear in my credit report.

My question is, in Texas my Taxes are usually net negative due to the ability for depreciation on the trucks to cover any of the capital gains I’ve made. Say for example if i had a property with 8k property Tax per year, would this still be washed by the vehicles depreciation since i am the sole owner of this trucking company my business and personal tax returns are the same

Can anyone add any insight on this?

Thank you,

[Bill B.]

You can use expenses like depreciation to lower your federal income tax on the income you declare from renting out the property. Nothing like that will lower the property taxes. That’s the gotcha of property taxes. They get their money no matter what.