On the federal level, while the wages of ordinary workers find no shelter from the Internal Revenue Service, exemptions and special preferences for landowners whittle down their taxes or
turn real estate losses into profits.
Not exact matches
In the case of
real estate, it's a matter of
turning a blind eye to staggering
losses, says Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing.
«We have a very flexible
real estate portfolio which gives us time to try to
turn around underperforming locations, without the potential burden of long - term
losses that would otherwise prevent us from taking these risks,» he said.
Small - town
real estate has to provide high returns in good times to offset the higher risk of
loss when the market
turns downward.