Michael D’Onofrio is the Managing Director of ETS and sits on the Executive Board. He has had a successful career in finance, energy consulting, and real estate development. Michael has founded numerous successful companies and is a valued member of the team. His strong business drive has added professionalism, consistency and significant growth to the company as a whole as he guides his clients along the path of increased success and missed opportunities for reduced tax liability. He has also mentored many ETS team members to the same success. Michael is originally from Southern Florida and recently relocated to Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife and two small children. They enjoy playing in the great outdoors, mountain biking, hiking, and sports. Michael also enjoys yoga, particularly Bikram Yoga (known as “hot” yoga), and rather than client golf outings, he will happily oblige any ETS clients with an hour of hot yoga instruction!
With many headwinds facing the commercial real estate market, the landscape will never be the same. In this panel, we will be exploring the following topics:
Speakers: Michael D’Onofrio, Joseph W. DeMatteo Sr., Elizabeth Fujino, Lisa Forster, and Larry Genet
No matter what side of a real estate transaction you sit, the impact of US Government intervention in our business seems overwhelming. In some cases, we welcome the help as taxpayer funded liquidity programs has certainly helped to support our fragile economy. Unemployment benefits and PPP loans have enabled many borrowers and tenants to stay current. On the other hand, federal and local governments have imposed eviction and foreclosure moratoriums, and those restrictions have been renewed and remain in full force in a majority of states. Our panel of landlords, lawyers, lenders, and investors will debate their perspectives on the right direction for our country and the economy.
Speakers: Michael D’Onofrio, Bill Bymel, Jack Goldberg, Sheryl Morehead, and Tony Barkan
As we think back to the end of 2019, no one could have foreseen the challenges that exist today in markets, the economy, and in our lives. COVID – 19 has devastated the global economy & our lives.
Taking things one day at a time may be all that lenders and investors can do in response to the heightened level of uncertainty, but looking ahead as the world begins to normalize is the next opportunity. There is 1 truth that participants can count on and that is that opportunities arise out of change. There is no place where change has been more apparent, over the last 10 years, than Private Markets. In 2020 mid-year market outlook, our panelist will review what happened and share their collective 100+ years of experience offering us an insight into the detail on how to find and execute in this challenging environment.
Speakers: Michael D’Onofrio, Nick Eskandari, Rob Jafek, Bobby Werhane, and Demian Waldman
Direct Lending and Private Debt have been the fastest growing segments of the alternative investment industry since the Great Recession in 2008. Then COVID - 19 hit and this market froze up and the Federal Reserve and Central Banks all over the world unleashed an unprecedented wave of liquidity to prevent unnecessary damage to the global economy. The secondary market responded quickly discounting the news. Operators have been slower to accept the new pricing of risk. Time has passed and things have been converging, listen to experts on the front lines as they discuss deals and insights into where things are today and where they see things going over short and intermediate term. This group will discuss and conduct an interactive Q&A session with audience engagement & participation. Join us for a thoughtful conversation that will undoubtedly provide direction to discounts or lack of discounts in new deals getting done.
Speakers: Michael D’Onofrio, Brock Freeman, Camilo Nino, Tim Sacks, and Stephan De Sabrit
Tax efficient investing via Opportunity Zones has never been as attractive as today. The panel will look at how Opportunity Zones have matured and what investors should consider given the recent guidance and final regulations from the IRS. Our experts in tax efficient investing, accounting and fund management will also discuss what Family Offices need to consider when allocating capital to the various Opportunity Zone Funds.
Having a big idea in today's exceptional times, needs to be coupled with exceptional operating partners. Tax efficient investing needs to be aligned with proper planning, so join us to listen to our experts speak about different real estate investment opportunities to supplement this tax efficient structure.
Speakers: Michael D’Onofrio, Lane Lowry, Eric Berman, Jason Cross, and Russ Ginise
Engineered TaxServices, Inc. (ETS) is a licensed engineering firm that focuses on federal, state, and local tax benefits. Engineered Tax Services was founded by CEO, Julio Gonzalez, to bring specialty tax engineering services to mainstream America. There are several federal tax incentives in which the IRS requires professional engineers and scientists to determine the tax benefits in the areas of real estate and manufacturing. Specific to real estate is the ability to depreciate real estate investments by components vs. the traditional expensing of real estate over a 39 or 27.5-year period. A forensic engineering study of a real estate property, in which the building is depreciated component by component, allows investors to expense up to 50% (and in some cases, more because of 100% bonus depreciation) of the purchase of their building up front.Decades ago, cost segregation was only available to real estate investors who worked with the Big 4 accounting firms who had dedicated engineering staffs. Mr. Gonzalez’s goal was to be a resource to the CPA community so that these services could be available to all real estate investors, big or small. Cost segregation continues to be one of the largest tax incentives for wealth preservation. There are very few investments that the United States Federal government allows investors to expense dollar for dollar. Real estate is the one investment from which you can deduct 100% of the purchase price against taxable income. Inherently, this allows for a 50% return on investment at a 50% federal and state tax bracket. Cost segregation allows the investor the ability to mitigate tax liabilities and preserve wealth by accelerating these deductions much quicker. Engineered Tax Services also uses its engineering, scientific and tax team to provide one of the most important federal and state tax credits available to United States businesses in the form of research and development tax credits (R&D). R&D Tax Credits are meant to incentivize manufacturing, innovation and technical design in the United States. These credits are essential to keep labor and promote job creation in the United States. Qualifying activities include developing new or improved products or manufacturing processes, tool and die development, technical design in the construction industry, software development, fracking and drilling technique development, and developing new or improved drugs or formulas, just to name a few. The R&D Tax Credit is a very important federal incentive meant to ensure that US companies remain competitive globally.