topic Rental Property Depreciation wrong in Investors & landlords

Rental Property Depreciation wrong

aberry5481 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:31:34 GMT

I have used the straight line depreciation method for years using turbo tax each year. Yet for 2023 the amount of depreciation increased over $2000. I have not changed anything: no new assets, no improvements or appliances, etc. Any ideas about how or why turbo tax increased this?

Re: Rental Property Depreciation wrong

Mike9241 — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 21:29:25 GMT

did you use H&B or any other Turbotax 1040 product in the past or did you transfer the info in from another tax app?

for most residential property the amount should be cost less land cost divided by 27.5

for commercial same steps but divided by 39

for foreign its 40

if you enter from another tax app make sure date in service and prior depreciation were entered correctly

Turbotax without taxpayer consent adjusts the depreciation over the remaining life if what it calculates as life to date depreciation it computes is nit the same as what was entered

Re: Rental Property Depreciation wrong

aberry5481 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:26:19 GMT

I have only ever used turbotax buz to do my taxes & to figure the straight line (27.5 yrs) depreciation on this rental house. Past years the amount was always the same (house divided by 27.5) but as I said the amount increased over $2000 this year, no changes whatsoever to value.

I have tried reading all the IRS information and found no new changes to the 27.5 years depr. based on purchase price of the house. Also, can't find any reasoning given by turbo tax. To protect myself I purchased the tax audit offered by turbo tax so just in case of audit maybe they can find an explanation.

Thanks for your help.

Re: Rental Property Depreciation wrong

Critter-3 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 01:30:21 GMT

Did you add any new assets in 2023 ? Did you review the depreciation worksheets and/or the form 4562 before you filed ???

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Re: Rental Property Depreciation wrong

aberry5481 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:49:08 GMT

I have no new assets, I did review the worksheets before submission but there was no information to detail the jump in depreciation. I did review my return before submitting and I always save and print copies of the whole packet.

Thanks for your reply

Re: Rental Property Depreciation wrong

DianeW777 — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 16:04:02 GMT

If you would like to send us a “diagnostic” file that has your “numbers” but not your personal information it would help.  If you would like to do this, here are the instructions:

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Go to the black panel on the left side of your program and select Tax Tools.

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