All of us in the tax/accounting industry around Cleveland would tell investors about municipal tax (which as @Timothy Murphy III pointed out is not just RITA, but also CCA, and some cities run theirs independently... or don't have it but then it turns out that you're on the edge of a different taxing municipality than you thought...and then some cities don't tax passive income and others do...).Unfortunately, for most tax returns, I spend as much time figuring out my client's municipal tax as federal tax.

If you open up your own brokerage, you can operate as an "S - Corp" and have 50% of your profits not subject to FICA tax. As

This is also why estates worth more than $5.43MM are hit with estate tax as they have exceeded the lifetime exclusion.Second, if your mother gifts you the property (i.e.

The tax record shows that it is a 2 family and previous owner paid tax as a 2 family for the past 28years.

Here in Nevada if you quit claim your property into an LLC there is no transfer tax as long as you are the sole owner of the LLC (your spouse can be an owner as well). 8)

I would like to look into buying a one room apartment in the center of Sao Paulo.I like the big building Edificio Copan, as I know the area and the buiding well and have friends living there.

I see similar ratios all over Illinois, where the current property tax as a % of the property value is hovering between 3%-4%

Check your state (or accountant) about transfer costs... in NC we can do an LLC contribution of property without incurring tax. A

Hi everyone,new to the forum. i'm a portuguese civil engineer currently living in São Paulo, Brasil.my family is moving to Ghent, Belgium next month, and since i had to quit my job (my wife got a new job there) i'm considering RE market, maybe on my own with a lot of your help.hope to meet people working in belgium that can partner up, ou just talk to in order to understand thr market and help me settle and start out working.i've been a site engineer for the past 10 years, lately i've worked on big vertical buildings for a brasilian company, and prior to that i've done quit a bit of everything in constrution projects in portugal.hope to hear and learn from you,thnx

There is a path of progress barrelling along the coast and the area was still thriving when the country (and especially the South) was in recession.Gentrifying areas of Sao Paulo for micro condos.