@jlb215I think we are saying the same thing. I may have missed that guidance about the percentage not carrying over to depreciation, it's been a little while since I looked at it. I agree that nowhere does it give you the option to tell it to create your depreciation at 50% of an input amount.
Rather I was just describing (read: complaining) that the earlier selection as to how you are entering your income and expenses, has no bearing whatsoever on what the software does once you get to depreciation. To my mind, that selection adds confusion unless it's going to apply it to all expenses equally. Ultimately depreciation is also an expense line. So I just input all income and expenses, including the data for the depreciation section, pre-calcluated for consistency's sake.
My particular gripe was that the depreciation schedule attachment ends up looking different to how it's always been shown when I've had accountant-prepared returns. They normally show the cost basis as a whole, and then apportion my share. I was just hoping that maybe if I told it to divide up everything else, the information that TT was getting about that data representing a 50% share might also trigger something clever within the depreciation schedule to more explicitly show that the cost basis and depreciation detailed within was with respect to a 50% share.
It makes no difference to tax in the end, I just didn't want to invite unnecessary scrutiny over presentation/cosmetic discrepencies. Per KathrynG3, I was comfortable enough that what TT shows would meet requirements. What my accountant was doing may have been unnecessary, and in theory TT should have your back if something is done wrong as a result of the software.
I hope that helps clarify.
