Depreciation Appreciation Thread

Submitted by evenyoubrutus on January 1st, 2021 at 1:39 PM

January 1st means tax season is upon us, and for those of us with LLCs it's always comforting to get to write off a portion of that flooring you had installed five years ago, or the new furnace you put in in 2012.

Cheers ?

StirredNotShaken

January 1st, 2021 at 3:05 PM ^

Those sound like immediately deductible repairs under the tangible property regs to me, not a capital asset to be depreciated. Sounds like you've been leaving dollar bills on the table all these years my man. Don't you even care about the time value of money?!?!

Also, for the record, the true hero is bonus depreciation. That's what should be cherished today and always. 

kalamazoo

January 1st, 2021 at 9:26 PM ^

But the stock market runup has already priced in a few years of earnings, so may not be as much opportunity there to take advantage of the time value of money, and for those who are growing quite fast in their earnings through personal careers, it may be nice to waive the bonus depreciation and save those expenses for years of greater personal wealth to reduce taxes then, especially when bumped up to higher tax brackets (looking at folks at 15% tax bracket to be jumped to 23% soon...state taxes in many states have same issue).

Not arguing your take, but we've seen this alternative scenario also, especially for folks at the 15% income tax bracket today that will be 23% soon because of the other more lucrative business growth.

JHumich

January 1st, 2021 at 5:07 PM ^

Heh, I thought this was about what is going to happen to the dollar after the 3T "stimuli" of the past year.

Just got our depreciation deposit today and need to figure out how to invest in a way that will be both growth minded and hedge against inflation...

MGoStrength

January 1st, 2021 at 6:53 PM ^

I don't understand a word you said.  Does that have something to do with hyperplasia preneoplastic response to my undulating periodization???