What Should a Business Owner Know About the Depreciation of Property Deductions!
What is the Depreciation Deduction?
It’s an annual tax deduction that allows your business to recover the cost of a property over the time that the property serves your business’ needs.
Quick example:
Your business bought a delivery truck for $25,000 & its expected lifetime is 5 years. Each year, you can deduct $5,000.
The business stops depreciating the asset when it has fully recovered the property’s cost or retired it from service.
Who? When? How? To deduct your business’ properties
- Who? Any business or self-employed individuals.
- When? Every year, at your Business’ Income Tax Filing.
- How? Using IRS’ Form 4562 to figure out your depreciation value.
What type of property is depreciable?
- Machinery & Equipment, such as: computers, a CNC machine, or a tractor.
- Vehicles: any vehicle used for business purposes.
- Furniture
- Buildings
- Land improvements (although the cost of the land itself is not depreciable)
Requirements
- The Business is the owner of the property, even if it is subject to a debt.
- The property is used by the business or to produce income: pretty straightforward: if you use the property to produce income, you can deduct it from income.
• If a property is used for both business & personal purposes, it can be depreciated only on the business portion.
- You can determine a useful life: you must be able to determine the usable lifetime of the property before it wears out, is obsolete, or loses its value.
- The property lasts more than a year: the property should last more than a year, otherwise, you can deduct it as a normal expense.
- Is not an excepted property: like some intangibles, term interests, or equipment used to build capital.
Knowing further
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