Depreciation assumes that assets used to
generate business income will wear out, get used up, or become increasingly
obsolete over a period of time. For taxation purposes, depreciation lets you
deduct the "used up" portion of that asset's cost every year, until
the entire cost is used up or the business no longer owns the asset. You
cannot claim more in depreciation than the value of the item. In this case,
your vehicle.
The prior AMT depreciation would be the same
as the prior regular depreciation if the depreciation was calculated by using
the standard mileage deduction.
It would also be the same if, when you
depreciated the vehicle using the actual costs (fuel, tires, etc). rather than
the standard mileage, you chose a straight line depreciation method.
(This is explained in the screens entitled "Let's Figure Out How to Deduct
Your Vehicle Costs" and "Section 179 Deduction" which includes a
link to on-demand tax guidance about the depreciation deductions you had used
for your vehicle in the past).
If you don't remember, that's ok, use the
defaults presented in TurboTax. If you've had the vehicle longer than 5
years, it would be fully depreciated under both the regular and AMT
methods.
To get back to this in TurboTax:
1. Open
(continue) your return in TurboTax.
(To do this, sign in to TurboTax and click
the orange Take me to my return button.)
2. In the
search box, search for 2106 and then click the "Jump
to" link in the search results.
3. At
the Tell us about the occupation you have expenses for screen,
enter your occupation.
4.
Click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.
If you land on the Job-Related
Expenses Summary screen instead, you can either Edit expenses
for an existing job
Try these fixes:
Go back to the sale of vehicle and delete any
numbers in the AMT section.
or
In Smart check, when the worksheet is
displayed, right click on the field (Line 50 and/or Line 51). From the
dropdown menu displayed, select "Override". You should then be
able to enter any number that you want.
Refer to IRS Publication 946, How to
Depreciate Property if you require more detailed, in-depth
information.
