This New Bill Could Double Your Tax Savings in 2025

Real Estate Rookie

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The One Big Beautiful Bill has passed, and it could put thousands of dollars back in your pocket. In this episode, we’re breaking down how this powerful piece of legislation could help lower your tax bill and supercharge your returns, whether you’re relatively new to real estate investing or actively scaling your portfolio! Welcome back to the Real Estate Rookie podcast! Today, we’re joined by Amanda Han and Matt MacFarland from Keystone CPA, who break down the latest tax bill, what it means for rookie investors, and a few of the best tax strategies to implement. We’ll cover things like 100% bonus depreciation, cost segregation studies, and the short-term rental loophole. You’ll even learn about the extended qualified business income (QBI) deduction that benefits many Americans—including real estate investors! But that’s not all. We’ll also provide realistic examples of how a rookie can double their write-offs, the “marriage loophole” that helps couples maximize their tax savings, and the biggest (and most expensive) rookie tax mistakes to avoid at all costs! In This Episode We Cover How the One Big Beautiful Bill could more than double your tax savings in 2025 Why 100% bonus depreciation is a game-changer for real estate investors The short-term rental loophole that could help offset your W-2 income by thousands How to use a cost segregation study to accelerate property deductions The “marriage loophole” high earners use to lower their taxable income Tweaking your investing strategy to maximize your tax breaks And So Much More! Check out more resources from this show on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BiggerPockets.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ and ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.biggerpockets.com/blog/rookie-615 Interested in learning more about today’s sponsors or becoming a BiggerPockets partner yourself? Email ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Taxes might not sound exciting, but what if I told you there's a brand new bill that could put more money in your pocket and change how you invest today.
0:09.4	And today, we've got two of the best real estate CPAs in the game.
0:13.2	You guys might know them.
0:13.9	They've written several books for bigger pockets.
0:16.4	They're my personal CPA and good friends of bigger pockets, but we have Amanda and Matt from Keystone CPA,
0:21.3	and they're here to break down the big, beautiful tax bill, what it means, why it matters,
0:27.5	and exactly how rookies can benefit from it.
0:34.7	Welcome to the Real Estate Rookie Podcast. I'm Ashley Care. And I'm Tony J. Robinson. With that, let's give a big warm welcome to Amanda Hahn and Matt McFarland. Guys, thanks for joining us today. I appreciate having you both. Yeah, thanks for having us, guys. It's fun to be here. So for those who aren't tax nerds yet, what is the big, beautiful tax bill? And why is everyone in real estate talking about it right now?
0:56.3	Well, first, it's just called, it's called the one big beautiful bill.
0:59.9	We're referring to it as the tax bill, but the bill actually has a lot of different things
1:08.0	outside of taxes as well.
1:09.6	That's what they called it the one big beautiful because it's sort of all-encompassing. But what we really love about the
1:16.5	one big beautiful bill is that for the first time in many years, we are seeing a bill or new
1:23.2	tax law that benefits not just real estate investors or large corporations, but it actually
1:29.2	benefits a lot of people. Of course, real estate investors is one of them, but, you know,
1:35.3	just average W-2 earners, homeowners, and, you know, people who are looking to purchase cars and
1:42.8	even parents as well. But of course, the intersect of all of
1:46.2	that with real estate is what's been super amazing for us, at least, as real estate CPAs.
1:52.3	Yeah, I think people are, obviously people are talking about it because it just passed last month
1:55.7	and it was, there was a lot of lead up to it, right? They were talking about it probably the beginning
2:00.4	of the years. So it's kind of from were talking about it probably the beginning of the years,
2:01.6	so that it's kind of from our perspective, it's nice that it actually passed, and now we have
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