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Back in Boston, Steve has been busy creating and managing his new company, Teton Mountaineering (TM), which is based out of a small town in

Back in Boston, Steve has been busy creating and managing his new company, Teton Mountaineering (TM), which is based out of a small town in Wyoming. In the process of doing so, TM has acquired various types of assets. Below is a list of assets acquired during 2013:

Asset

Cost

Date Placed in Service

Office furniture

$

10,000

02/03/2013

Machinery

560,000

07/22/2013

Used delivery truck*

15,000

08/17/2013

* Not considered a luxury automobile, thus not subject to the luxury automobile limitations.

uring 2013, TM had huge success (and had no 179 limitations) and Steve acquired more assets the next year to increase its production capacity. These are the assets acquired during 2014:

Asset

Cost

Date Placed in Service

Computers & info. system

$

40,000

03/31/2014

Luxury auto

80,000

05/26/2014

Assembly equipment

475,000

08/15/2014

Storage building

400,000

11/13/2014

Used 100% for business purposes. Use 2013 limitations for 2014.

TM generated a taxable income in 2014 before any 179 expense of $732,500.

a.

Compute maximum 2013 depreciation deductions including 179 expense (ignoring bonus depreciation).

2013 depreciation deductions? $

b)

Compute maximum 2014 depreciation deductions including 179 expense (ignoring bonus depreciation).

2014 depreciation deductions? $

c.

Compute maximum 2014 depreciation deductions including 179 expense, but now assume that Steve would like to take bonus depreciation on the 2014 assets.

2014 depreciation deductions? $

Ignoring part (c), now assume that during 2014, Steve decides to buy a competitors assets for a purchase price of $350,000. Compute maximum 2014 cost recovery including 179 expense (ignoring bonus depreciation). Steve purchased the following assets for the lump-sum purchase price.

Asset

Cost

Date Placed in Service

Inventory

$

20,000

09/15/2014

Office furniture

30,000

09/15/2014

Machinery

50,000

09/15/2014

Patent

98,000

09/15/2014

Goodwill

2,000

09/15/2014

Building

130,000

09/15/2014

Land

20,000

09/15/2014

d) 2014 cost recovery? $

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