Real Estate Insights Volume 02 | Summer 2018 | Page 11

BPM Real Estate Insights As you can see, the sale of the original investment or the asset held by the QOF is not limited to real estate. The tax benefits for investors encourage a long-term investment in low income areas, steering potential revenue for the government directly towards other taxpayers that are in need. n 11 Jackie Matsumura is a partner and the real estate industry group co-leader at BPM. Contact Jackie at [email protected] or 925-296-1035. Lily Wang is an associate II in the tax group at BPM. Contact Lily at [email protected] or 415-677-4532. The IRS auditors would never have suspected a thing if I hadn’t laughed so hard just as they were going out the door. Reprinted with permission of the publisher. From Executive Smart Charts, copyright 1993 by Herbert Stansbury, Barrett- Koehler Publishers, Inc., San Francisco, CA. All rights reserved. bkconnection.com