CTO Realty Growth, Inc.

Recent Tax Law Changes

On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the legislation known as the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”). The OBBBA made significant changes to the U.S. federal income tax law that impact REITs and their investors. Specifically, the OBBBA increases the REIT asset test limitation on the value of taxable REIT subsidiary (“TRS”) securities a REIT may hold from 20% to 25% for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025. As a result, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025, the aggregate value of all securities of TRSs held by a REIT may not exceed 25% of the value of its total assets. The OBBBA also makes permanent the 20% deduction for “qualified REIT dividends” (i.e., REIT dividends other than capital gain dividends and portions of REIT dividends designated as qualified dividend income) for individuals, trusts, and estates that was set to sunset for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2025. In addition, for taxable years beginning after December 31, 2024, the OBBBA restored the exclusion of deductions for depreciation, depletion and amortization in the calculation of a taxpayer’s “adjusted taxable income” for purposes of calculating the limitation on the taxpayer’s net interest expense deduction, which was previously in effect for taxable years beginning before January 1, 2022. This change will generally have the effect of increasing the available deduction.