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" If you miss depreciation in the past, at the year when sale, you will end up pay more tax because you have to do deprecation recapture"
This could more accurately be stated as, "If you don't take allowable depreciation, you'll pay more tax over the life of the property, because the 'allowed or allowable' rule means you'll pay tax on depreciation recapture regardless of whether you deducted that depreciation in the past."
Taking depreciation gives you more deductions (or a bigger passive loss carryforward that will free up in the year of taxable disposition) during the period the property was in service. Taking zero depreciation gives you no deductions for that period. In either case, you're going to pay tax on the same amount of gain in the year of sale.