Every client matter includes critical steps: asset data review, site visits, identifying tax-saving opportunities, recommending strategies, filing returns, and ongoing compliance support.
Personal Property Consulting
Maximizing your tax savings requires a comprehensive review of every asset your company owns. Even experienced tax consultants often take an overly broad approach that puts their clients at a disadvantage. They identify the largest facilities and most obvious opportunities for savings to ensure a “reasonable” assessment. Our personal property tax service is not a simple “review.” We conduct a relentlessly thorough analysis that drives consistently superior outcomes and substantially greater tax savings. We conduct a detailed and exhaustive study to identify and implement tax reduction strategies on the equipment you own based on the way you use it. We will provide the information you need to decide which strategies best serve your needs. The result: When you sign your personal property tax return, you can rest assured that your assets have been reported according to the local property tax assessment regulations.
Our Services Include
- Classification analysis
- Pollution control certifications
- Specialized equipment studies
- Inventory exemption and valuation
- Obsolescence and plant utilization studies
- Abatement and incentive planning and compliance
- Audit support
- Compliance
- Tax accruals, budgeting and planning
The Fulcrum Process
Initial Review & Reconciliation
Preliminary Analysis & Site Visit
Detailed Review & Analysis
Recommendation
Ongoing Support
Initial Review & Reconciliation
- Reconcile: Compare previously filed renditions with fixed asset data.
- Understand: Gain comprehensive knowledge of current filing methodologies and classifications.
- Organize: Apply a coding system for asset classifications, changes, and savings calculations.
Preliminary Analysis & Site Visit
- Identify: Spot potential areas for savings.
- Plan & Organize: Ensure site visit efficiency by organizing client personnel schedules.
- Discuss: Engage with plant personnel to better understand the manufacturing process.
- Review: Examine specific assets and related documents (capitalization, policies, procedures).
Detailed Review & Analysis
- Analyze: Review findings and discuss with on-site personnel.
- Identify: Determine exemptions, exclusions, and develop component cost segregation analysis.
- Re-classifications
- Special tooling
- Pollution control
- Software/programming
- Intangibles
- Real property
- Idle assets
- Economic/functional obsolescence
- Complete: Perform valuation analysis and review potential exposure issues.
Recommendation
- Present: Discuss tax reduction opportunities and their potential impact.
- Review: Analyze tax implications and filing considerations.
- Obtain: Secure final client approval.
Ongoing Support
- Support: Provide full audit/appeal support.
- Compliance: Ensure future compliance and tax reduction strategies.
- Accrual and reporting support
- Tax abatement, exemption & IFT opportunities
- Periodic Review: Conduct periodic reviews to maintain tax efficiency.
Who We Serve
Take Your Power Back
At Fulcrum, we believe that taking your power back starts with reclaiming the critical tax dollars you worked so hard to earn. It’s at the heart of everything we do—maximizing tax savings, being responsive to your needs, and empowering you to regain control of your financial future.
Our team of dedicated experts works tirelessly to ensure that your priorities are in focus. We are passionate advocates, committed to helping clients of every size, location, and industry recover their hard-earned tax dollars and reinvest them where they matter most.
What sets Fulcrum apart is our proactive approach. We don’t just respond; we anticipate your needs, tackle challenges before they arise, and uncover hidden opportunities that others may miss.
“How does Fulcrum consistently recover critical tax dollars others overlook?” the answer is simple: We empower you by caring more, digging deeper, and helping you take your financial power back.
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Let our team of tax professionals show you how to unlock critical savings for you and your business