Duff & Phelps offers specialized expertise to meet companies' cost segregation needs. By understanding the subtleties and intricacies of the procedures, Duff & Phelps professionals can help uncover deductions where companies may not have known they existed.

Cost segregation studies are typically implemented in cases involving the construction of a new facility, acquisition of existing real estate or renovation, enhancement or leasehold improvement of an existing facility.
 
In addition to newly constructed or acquired facilities, instances of existing properties to which a cost segregation study was never applied may also contain additional tax depreciation benefits. Under various revenue procedures, taxpayers are allowed to reclassify the depreciable lives of certain building components and pick up previously unclaimed depreciation deductions.

Cost Segregation services include: