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To be depreciable, the property must meet all the following requirements. It must be property you own. It must be used in your business or income-producing activity. It must have a determinable useful life. It must be expected to last more than 1 year.
Class life is the number of years over which an asset can be depreciated. The tax law has defined a specific class life for each type of asset. Real Property is 39 year property, office furniture is 7 year property and autos and trucks are 5 year property.
Depreciation is charged in a fair proportion of the depreciable amount in every accounting period during the expected useful life of the asset. As everything loses value over time, we are able to treat depreciation as an expense because it is beneficial to the company, which owns the depreciable assets.
The general depreciation rules set the depreciation deduction you can claim for most depreciating assets based on the asset's effective life. Like simplified depreciation, there are some assets that are included or excluded under special rules.
The Income Tax Act provides two main methods for calculating depreciation: the Written Down Value (WDV) method and the Straight Line Method (SLM). Each method is suitable for different types of assets. The WDV method is the most commonly used method under the Income Tax Act.
Microsoft Excel has built-in functions for multiple depreciation methods, including the: Straight-line method (SLN function) Sum of the years' digits method (SYD function) Declining balance method (DB function)