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You will enter them as assets in the new business at the lower of fair market value or your cost basis in them (cost less the depreciation allowable on them.) The Section 179 depreciation should have been recaptured as income in the year you disposed of the business, so the cost basis would be the purchase price less normal depreciation allowable.

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