The new tax reform legislation, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, added a program called “Opportunity Zones” into the tax law. Similar to the 1031 exchange, Opportunity Zones is an economic development designed to benefit long-term investments by deferring capital gains taxes. Investors do not need to live in an Opportunity Zone to get the tax benefits, all they need to do is invest in a Qualified Opportunity Fund.
Read moreInvesting in Real Estate vs. Investing in Agriculture
Savvy investors have long realized the advantages of owning real, tangible assets, especially those backed by underlying land. Real estate, both commercial and residential, is probably most familiar to alternative investors. But agriculture offers many of the same benefits, and can help diversify the real asset portions of a portfolio. In most cases, both commercial real estate and agriculture produce yield by collecting rents from tenants and returns from the appreciating value of land and the improvements on that land.
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