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posted Sep 17, 2022 4:56:04 PM

I would like to use accelerated depreciation for rental property acquired in 2021. How do it in turbo tax home and business edition

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Level 15
Sep 17, 2022 5:14:49 PM

There is no such thing for rental real estate ... it is a 27.5 year property period. And the land cost must be broken out of the total cost since land it not depreciated. 

Level 15
Sep 18, 2022 6:37:08 PM

There is no accelerated depreciation for residential rental real estate. It's 27.5 years. See IRS Publication 946 at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p946.pdf on page 27, "Required use of ADS".

Required use of ADS. You must use ADS for the follow-
ing property.

Nonresidential real property, residential real property,
and qualified improvement property held by an elect-
ing real property trade or business (as defined in sec-
tion 163(j)(7)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code). For
more information, see Revenue Procedure 2019-8 on
page 347 of Internal Revenue Bulletin 2019-3, availa-
ble at
IRS.gov/irb/2019-03_IRB#RP-2019-08, as
modified by Revenue Procedure 2021-28 on page 5 of
Internal Revenue Bulletin 2021-27, available at

IRS.gov/irb/2021-27_IRB#RP-2021-28

Level 15
Sep 18, 2022 7:04:43 PM


@Carl wrote:

There is no accelerated depreciation for residential rental real estate. It's 27.5 years. See IRS Publication 946 at https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p946.pdf on page 27, "Required use of ADS".


27.5 years is GDS, not ADS.

Level 15
Sep 18, 2022 8:07:54 PM

27.5 years is GDS, not ADS

Thanks. I mis-read something somewhere. Can't find exactly where now. But from what I see in IRB 2019-03, Rev Proc 2019-08, ADS for rental property is 30 years, and applies to a foreign rental property.  Basically, 2019-08 changes the depreciation of foreign rental from 40 yrs to 30 yrs for foreign property placed in service after 2017.