Tier 3: Promoter-grade. Decline.
- Deferred Sales Trusts and monetized installment sales
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No governing authority, constructive receipt sitting on top, and the monetized version is headed for listed-transaction status (section “Deferred Sales Trusts”).
- Mineral-royalty 1031 exits
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Real property in name, depleting commodity bet in substance (section “Selling Houses”).
- Syndicated conservation easements
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The real-estate-flavored deduction mill the IRS lists by name; the honest version and the indictment-adjacent version are separated in section “Business Income Deductions”.
- Renting your own home from your own LLC
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Not a loophole — a fee generator with a strictly worse tax result than doing nothing (section “Renting House to Yourself through an LLC”).