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Cost Segregation Services

Cost Segregation is a valuable strategy to increase cash flow and reduce income taxes for commercial property owners.

Research & Development Tax Credit

A Federal Tax Credit that incentivizes US-based taxpayers for increasing investment in research activities.

Green Energy Incentives

Here we look for 45L and 179D tax credits relating to developers, owners, architects, contractors and designers of energy efficient homes and buildings.

Comprehensive Fixed Asset Reviews

A Comprehensive Fixed Asset Review reviews a taxpayer’s entire depreciation schedule to ensure the treatment of all assets.

Tangible Property & Repair Reviews

For our most capital intensive clients where we deep dive into the entire depreciation’s schedule.

Accounting Methods

A change in accounting method includes any change in the taxpayer’s overall method of accounting, which often times results in improved cash flow.

Georgia Tax Credits

Statutory programs that allow taxpayers to claim tax credits for normal business activities such as training their employees on technology and equipment, adding jobs, and investing in manufacturing or telecommunications equipment.

Tennessee Tax Credits

Statutory programs that allow taxpayers to claim franchise and excise tax credits for normal business activities such as adding jobs and investing in industrial machinery.

§ 48 Investment Tax Credit for Energy Property

The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) renewed and improved the Federal Investment Tax Credit for Clean Energy Property. Taxpayers can get a credit of 6%-50% on investments in energy storage technologies, microgrid controllers, fuel cells, geothermal, combined heat & power, microturbines, municipal solid waste, geothermal, solar, and wind technologies.

South Carolina Tax Credits

Statutory program that allows qualifying businesses to claim tax credits for allows qualifying businesses to claim tax credits for creating and maintaining new jobs in South Carolina, with credit values ranging from 1,500 to 25,000 per job based on county tier and business type, available for a five-year period.

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What We Do

We focus on Cost Segregation Studies, Energy Efficiency Incentives (179D/45L), Comprehensive Fixed Asset Reviews, Research & Development Tax Credits, State Credits, Like-Kind Exchanges (1031), and Accounting Methods. With the knowledge of CPAs, engineers and architects, attorneys, HERS raters, and LEED Accredited Professionals, STG provides fully-developed and complete solutions tailored for each client.


Cost Segregation is a valuable strategy to increase cash flow and reduce income taxes for commercial property owners. The tax benefits of cost segregation can be applied to various types of real estate: apartments, assisted living/nursing homes, auto dealerships, office buildings, restaurants, manufacturing, hotels, medical buildings, retail space and others. The process of Cost Segregation segregating 1245 personal property components 1250 land improvements from the real property of a building, resulting in depreciable lives of 5, 7 and 15 years using accelerated depreciation.


Beyond accelerated deductions the Tangible Property Regulations (TPR) allow taxpayers to write off disposed building components as a a partial disposition. A cost segregation carves out building components so that a taxpayer can easily identify the deductible cost after a renovation.


Types of transactions:


  • New Construction
  • Property Acquisition
  • Renovations or Expansion
  • Leasehold Improvements
  • Real Property Step-Up

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Can I use passive losses against active income?

    Under Sec. 469, the deduction of losses from a passive activity is limited to the amount of passive income from all passive activities. A passive activity is any trade or business in which the taxpayer does not “materially participate”. However Regs. Sec. 1.469-4(c)(1) provides for a grouping of legal entities if their activities constitute an appropriate economic unit for the measurement of gain or loss. There is a facts-and-circumstances test for determining whether a grouping of activities results in an appropriate economic unit. The election to group activities is made by filing a statement with the taxpayer's original income tax return for the taxable year. Real Estate owners often use the “Grouping Election” to offset passive loses against active income. Before making this election, you should consult with your tax advisor.

  • Who can use cost segregation?

    • CPAs CAN RECOMMEND USING THE cost segregation technique when a taxpayer constructs a building or buys an existing one. ...
    • BUYERS OF REAL ESTATE SHOULD OBTAIN an engineering report that segregates assets into four categories: personal property, land improvements, building components and land.

  • What is cost segregation in cost accounting?

    Simply put, cost segregation is the process of identifying various assets and the costs of those assets individually, and then properly classifying them for the purposes of federal tax deductions. Specifically, cost segregation is utilized for the reallocation or reclassification of real property assets.