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The fastest depreciation method that the IRS allows is the 200-percent declining balance method, and the slowest is straight-line depreciation, in which the annual depreciation deduction is the same each year.

For depreciation purposes it means that a method of depreciation must be used for AMT that allows lower amounts of depreciation than that allowed for the regular income tax calculations. ... For all other property placed in service after 1998, the depreciation method is the same for regular tax and AMT purposes.

The AMT is levied at two rates: 26 percent and 28 percent. The AMT exemption amount for 2019 is $71,700 for singles and $111,700 for married couples filing jointly (Table 3). In 2019, the 28 percent AMT rate applies to excess AMTI of $194,800 for all taxpayers ($97,400 for married couples filing separate returns).

The Alternative Minimum Tax is a mandatory alternative to the standard income tax that gets triggered when taxpayers make more than the exemption and use many common itemized deductions. ... As a result, the AMT is projected to affect about 200,000 tax filers per year instead of the 5 million affected in the 2017 tax year.

There is no AMT adjustment regardless of whether the taxpayer elects out of bonus depreciation. ... The regulations provide a transition election whereby taxpayers may elect for all property placed into service in the first year ending after Sept. 27, 2017, to apply 50% bonus instead of 100% bonus on qualified property.

The rules determine the minimum amount of tax your income requires you to pay. If you're already paying at least that much because of the regular income tax, you don't have to pay AMT. But if your regular tax falls below the minimum, you have to pay the higher AMT amount.

The AMT is levied at two rates: 26 percent and 28 percent. The AMT exemption amount for 2019 is $71,700 for singles and $111,700 for married couples filing jointly (Table 3). In 2019, the 28 percent AMT rate applies to excess AMTI of $194,800 for all taxpayers ($97,400 for married couples filing separate returns).

For the 2018 tax year, the threshold is $191,500 of AMT taxable income for taxpayers filing as single and as married couples filing jointly. It is $95,750 for married couples filing separately. For the tax year 2017, the threshold was $187,800 of AMTI or $93,900 for those who are married filing separately.

Taxpayers first calculate their normal adjusted gross income, then add back in certain items. Next, they, subtract the applicable AMT exemption amount, multiply that by the appropriate AMT tax rate and subtract the AMT foreign tax credit to calculate a tentative minimum tax.

The trigger varies with your regular income tax bracket and the amount of tax preference items you have. The higher your income, the more preference items you need to trigger the AMT.

An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is a tax that ensures that taxpayers pay at least the minimum. The AMT recalculates income tax after adding certain tax preference items back into adjusted gross income. AMT uses a separate set of rules to calculate taxable income after allowed deductions.

For 2018, they are $109,400 for married joint-filing couples and $70,300 for unmarried individuals. The phase-out thresholds are also dramatically increased to $1 million and $500,000, respectively. Your exemption amount is reduced by 25% of the excess of your AMT income over the applicable phase-out threshold.

Calculating the AMT is complicated. Taxpayers first calculate their normal adjusted gross income, then add back in certain items. Next, they, subtract the applicable AMT exemption amount, multiply that by the appropriate AMT tax rate and subtract the AMT foreign tax credit to calculate a tentative minimum tax.

For the 2018 tax year, the threshold is $191,500 of AMT taxable income for taxpayers filing as single and as married couples filing jointly. It is $95,750 for married couples filing separately. For the tax year 2017, the threshold was $187,800 of AMTI or $93,900 for those who are married filing separately.

For the 2018 tax year, the threshold is $191,500 of AMT taxable income for taxpayers filing as single and as married couples filing jointly. It is $95,750 for married couples filing separately. For the tax year 2017, the threshold was $187,800 of AMTI or $93,900 for those who are married filing separately.