Harris Brooks is guest speaker this week, talking about his company, CSSI (Cost Segregation Services, Inc.) Brooks said the company was founded as a cost segregation firm, however, "we really are larger than that. We like to think of ourselves as an engineering-based consulting firm specializing in the tax laws surrounding commercial buildings. We want to use the tax laws to expense expenditures as repairs and when clients must capitalize items, how to reduce or defer their tax burden. We provide results related to the Repair Regulations, Qualified Improvement Property, Partial Asset Dispositions, R&D studies, and Cost Segregation."