If the treasury lets you accelerate the depreciation of your jet, they'll collect less tax revenue now, but more in year six.
"Tax Breaks for Corporate Jets": The Non-Issue at the Heart of the Presidential Agenda|Megan McArdle|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Because during the first five years of the new schedule, the depreciation amounts are slightly lower.
"Tax Breaks for Corporate Jets": The Non-Issue at the Heart of the Presidential Agenda|Megan McArdle|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
At least some of the depreciation for the rest of the jets stretches beyond the window.
"Tax Breaks for Corporate Jets": The Non-Issue at the Heart of the Presidential Agenda|Megan McArdle|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
With 5-year depreciation, the annual depreciation deduction will be $10 billion, saving companies about $3.5 billion in taxes.
"Tax Breaks for Corporate Jets": The Non-Issue at the Heart of the Presidential Agenda|Megan McArdle|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
All of which leads to the same conclusion: the depreciation schedule doesn't matter.
"Tax Breaks for Corporate Jets": The Non-Issue at the Heart of the Presidential Agenda|Megan McArdle|April 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
No depreciation of money can account for this woful difference.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness|Thomas Frognall Dibdin
In this way the charge for depreciation will be proportionate to the traffic, which provides automatic adjustment.
How to Invest Money|George Garr Henry
As against all this, there is an undercurrent of depreciation of his stepdaughter among Borrow's biographers.
George Borrow and His Circle|Clement King Shorter
The items of expense are interest on the first cost of the pumping machinery, depreciation, upkeep and running expenses.
Farm Mechanics|Herbert A. Shearer
Surely Rosalind's depreciation of it is not real, but only assumed, for the purpose of humbling, Phebe!
Notes and Queries, Number 138, June 19, 1852|Various
British Dictionary definitions for depreciation
depreciation
/ (dɪˌpriːʃɪˈeɪʃən) /
noun
accounting
the reduction in value of a fixed asset due to use, obsolescence, etc
the amount deducted from gross profit to allow for such reduction in value
accountinga modified amount permitted for purposes of tax deduction
the act or an instance of depreciating or belittling; disparagement
a decrease in the exchange value of currency against gold or other currencies brought about by excess supply of that currency under conditions of fluctuating exchange ratesCompare devaluation (def. 1)