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🧮 Why Car Washes Are Perfect for W2 Earners And Business Owners🧮
Every time I post a thread on car washes and bonus depreciation I get questions about how W2 earners can take losses from real estate-based businesses like car washes.
Let's clear this up right now with a quick thread.
In the mind of the tax man (which is not nec reality!) for our purposes there are two types of activities:
Passive: real estate (which is primarily owning and renting of buildings, land, storage etc.)
Active: W2 jobs, business ownership
For you to be able to take bonus depreciation against income, the BD has to come from the same bucket as the income.
So active income - active BD, passive income - passive BD.
Simple right? But what trips people up is where car washes land.
People think it's a real estate business, but it's actually a business with real estate. The IRS considers it active.
They call it a 'trader' business meaning you're trading money for goods and services. Real estate (in their mind but not in reality) is this passive thing where you just provide a building and collect rent (lolol).
So that means W2 earners, business owners, and anyone with active income can use bonus depreciation on car washes to nuke a huge chunk or all of their tax bill.
But ANY business that is asset heavy can do that too. Anything with equipment deemed to have a life of 15 years or less qualifies. So dumpsters, freezers, the list is really long.
It just so happens that car washes are almost perfect for this (NOTE: I'm not that smart, I fell into this by pure luck).
Why?
Because they have a unique mix of BD-elligible equipment and land. It's very bankable (meaning a bank loves to loan on it) because of the land and yet the building and equipment are a huge part of the value so the bonus depreciation % can be huge.
For some washes 80% of the value might be tied up in the building and equipment. Remember, you can only BD the equipment and building.
So if you had a $1M car wash, and 80% of the value is in the building/gear, this year you can take 80% of BD value, you would have a .8x$800k = $640k loss.
$640k paper only loss! For most of you that would wipe out your taxes for this year and probably a few years to come.
THAT'S why I am the Car Wash Guy. They are, for me, the perfect combination of simple businesses that have a real estate component for stability, but are active enough for MASSIVE tax benefits.
And (the best part): it only takes about 5-10 hours a week.
Capisce?



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