GeorgeM777
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Investors & landlords

Because it is considered an impermissible method of accounting not to take depreciation, you should take the depreciation.  If you sell the property in the future, you will have to account for any tax on depreciation recapture; however, in the final analysis, the tax could be less than the depreciation taken, thus benefiting you.  

 

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