OZs or opportunity zones were enacted in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. If you invest capital gains from a previous investment in a building or business in a census tract designated as an OZ by a state governor, you can defer and reduce taxes on that initial gain, and then pay zero capital-gains tax on that investment, provided you stick with wit for 10 years or more.

The WSJ says there are 8,764 of those in the U.S. (Sat/Sun Sept 17, 2021). A few kind of businesses are ruled out -tanning salons, golf course and liquor stores.

“But there is no requirement that a project actually benefit residents of that zone.”

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We’ve found out the idea of OZs came from Sean Parker, of Napster and Facebook fame.

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“Self-storage facilities, which create hardly any jobs, are sprouting with OZ money. So is luxury student housing- in university towns, which are eligible only because college kids show up as poor in census tallies.”

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Do any readers participate as investors in an OG ? If so, let us know in the comments.

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