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What is deferral benefits?

Tax advantages from postponing tax rather than avoiding it: principally depreciation, like-kind exchanges (Section 1031), and Opportunity Zone reinvestment. The tax returns later, often at sale.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.