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mercredi 17 juin 2015

Implications Of Cost Segregation Depreciation On Income Tax

By Freida Michael


Studies for this process are encouraged to be undertaken by businesses and individuals who have properties that can depreciate because of its effect on financial accounting, income tax, property tax and insurance purposes. So cost segregation depreciation is very important to individuals and companies to help them not to overcharge their income as depreciation amount may be tax allowable.

For tax purposes, study on outlay segregation will involve reallocating the entire charge of an asset to suitable classes to help you calculate depreciation deductions. Depreciation is a charge which is reflected on the income statement and it reduces profit.

There are many techniques that can be used to classify and depreciate the assets, this techniques are sampling technique, scrap value estimation approach, survey approach, detailed engineering and modeling approach.

This effect is good as it cuts down the amount to be depreciated and a firm ends up paying less. To achieve accurate and reliable expenditure segregation the technique used to distribute total outlay to specific asset is very crucial.

This engineering technique has several steps that will be explained below. This approach is also known as detailed expenditure. The method uses the charge of that period of construction and records used for accounting in computing depreciation amount of an asset.

Blueprints, biding documents, contract agreement documents and supplier payment records should be thoroughly investigated and confirmed by a responsible person in the organization. This is necessary to come up with the exact cost of a property and it helps compute unit charge. Identify and apportion certain assets from this project to the suitable classes. The classes can be fixtures, fittings, building, motor vehicles or machinery.

This use of source document or actual records results to accurate allocation of expenditure, but still the method may face challenges of classification of property specifically. The technique is most appropriate for new construction only because of the comprehensive expenditure files available.

This method entails following activities, first the management is supposed to identify certain properties or asset which will be analyzed. Then get all the files and records containing the charge of the asset and authenticate project total outlay.

This approach is more suitable for assets that short life span, that is an economic useful life of less than seven years and greater than five years. The cost of these short term asset are added up and then deducted from actual outlay of project.

Depreciation charge is an allowable expense that cuts down taxable income resulting to increase in cash flow after tax. Firms consider tax periods that are shorter since they bring higher tax benefits. Considering value of money, huge tax deductions within short duration is more advantageous to businesses than smaller tax deductions made for longer periods. Bonus depreciation is also part of benefit that one can get as a result of cost segregation. Bonus depreciation is only applicable to specific properties such as fixed asset with useful life of twenty years and more such asset include machinery and other non current asset.

The next step is relating unit charge to specific asset component to verify the total outlay. Reconcile the two expenditures, that is charge from take off and total initial outlay. Then apportion indirect charges to respective properties. This indirect outlays include engineering fees, permit charges and architectural charges. Classify asset with same class lives and calculate their depreciation. This method is the most time consuming but is preferred since it is more accurate.




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