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Valuing Like Kind Exchanges: Is It Too Good to Be True?

By Bill Bosco
January 28, 2005

How would you as a lessor like to increase your after tax income by millions of dollars? How would you as lessor like to increase spreads by 30 basis points? Would you like to do this without having to cut costs or take the risk of creating a new product, entering a new market and hiring lots of staff? The answer to these questions of course is “yes,” and it sounds too good to be true as the way to get there is to use a gift from the IRS ' implement a Like Kind Exchange (“LKE”) program in your leasing business.

The focus of this article is on how to value an LKE program.

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