Arizona's charter schools hold $2.56 billion in debt and long-term commitments while
depreciated property and assets are valued at $1.4 billion.
Donors who contribute privately held stock or real estate to their foundation must value it at cost basis -- likely to be low for
depreciated property or businesses started in a garage.
But using replacement cost in inappropriate circumstances may incentivize victims to inflate their losses by replacing older,
depreciated property with newer, more expensive property.<br />Here, fair market value was the appropriate measure of value.
If the decedent retained the
depreciated property until death, the heirs would have a stepped-down basis in the property equal to the date-of-death FMV rather than the original cost basis.
(The carryover basis rules on gifts of
depreciated property are more complex.
174 expenditures to the extent the
depreciated property is used in connection with research and experimentation.
While revenues from income and sales taxes have slowly climbed back to pre-recession levels,
depreciated property values are now working into the assessment process.
Legislative policy is that on certain dispositions of
depreciated property the seller realizes a gain that is, at least in part, attributable to depreciation.
Taxpayers are not required to identify the reservation on which the
depreciated property is located.
Additionally, the
depreciated property will have a stepped-up basis that will provide a larger depreciation deduction going forward.
Until fairly recently, this same treatment applied when a shareholder contributed
depreciated property. (8) Going back to the example above, assume the property's fair market value is $20,000 and A's basis is still $50,000.
Properties affected by damage from criminal activity often suffer from reduced curb appeal, increased resident apathy toward property maintenance and
depreciated property value.