Federal Taxation of Real Estate Investment Trusts REITs and FINCen’s Beneficial Owner Reports
Federal tax laws treat REITs primarily as pass-through entities; similarly, to, but to a lesser extent, the way federal tax laws treat partnerships, where the majority of the increments in wealth associated with REITs are passed-through to the beneficial owners and taxed presumably at the more favorable tax rates of the individual beneficial owners of the REIT.