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Exploring The Benefits and Risks of Investing in Opportunity Funds

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Daniel Fullmer
Exploring The Benefits and Risks of Investing in Opportunity Funds

The qualified opportunity zone program has a lot of significance in the United States. The main importance of the program is that it encourages investors in the real estate business to invest in low-income communities. One of the major components of the investment is that it provides a significant tax benefit to the investors, which helps spur economic growth. Being an expert and having experience in real estate investment, here’s more on the benefits of opportunity funds. You can then use the knowledge provided as a guide to investing in communities that have housing problems.


Overview On Why You Should Invest on Qualified Opportunity Zones


Investing in an opportunity zone program provides you as an investor with tax-saving benefits. The tax benefits that you as an investor enjoys are on realized capital gains which range from 10%-100%. If you have an opportunity zone investment in a qualified fund for five years, your basis will go up by 10% of the deferred gain. But after seven years, the cost of your basis will increase by another 5%. As an investor, there is some important advice you must put into consideration.


Tax Benefits of Investing in Opportunity Zones


The main attraction to the opportunity zone investment is deferring the existing capital gains taxes and avoiding the new capital gains taxes. Two main tax benefits are related to investing your capital gains into the qualified opportunity zone. First, you will notice that the capital gains you invest in the opportunity fund are lessened by 10% in five years. At the same time, it will further reduce by 5% in seven years, and there is a chance to be deferred for up to nine years. The second tax benefit excludes future capital gains on opportunity fund investment from the capital gains tax if held in the fund for not less than ten years.


Other Benefits of Investing in Opportunity Zone Investing


There are also four other related benefits that real estate investors you can enjoy by investing in opportunity zones compared to the other programs authorized by congress in the past:


  1. You only need to reinvest the capital gains and not the whole proceeds from the past proceeds.
  2. You can defer your capital gains from the sales you made outside the qualified opportunity zones meaning that it does need to be from within.
  3. Your capital gain does not have a limit in terms of its source. In other words, the program accepts all capital gains, for instance, stock, bitcoin, and precious metals.
  4. There is room to allow you to create opportunity funds from syndicators. It allows you as an investor to invest in various forms of qualified opportunity zones, for instance, residential rental property.


For you to avoid paying capital gains tax, you must ensure that your opportunity zone investment stays in a qualified opportunity fund for not less than ten years. As an investor, it is upon you, after conducting your due diligence, to decide on the right opportunity zones to invest in. After that, you will have to look for the right qualified opportunity fund that invests in your areas of interest. 

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