On July $1,2019,$ Brent purchases a new automobile for $$41,500.$ He uses the car $84\%$ for business and drives the car for business

purposes as follows: $10,500$ miles in $2019,26,250$ miles in $2020,29,400$ miles in $2021,$ and $21,000$ miles in $2022.$

Determine Brent's basis in the business portion of the auto as of January $1,2023,$ under the following assumptions:

If required, round your computations to the nearest dollar.

a$.$ Brent uses the automatic mileage method.

Compute his basis adjustments for depreciation for each year. Click here to access the basis adjustment table.

$2019$: $

$2020$: $

$2021$: $

$2022$:

Brent's adjusted basis in the auto on January $1,2023,$ is $

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b$.$ Brent uses the actual cost method. $[$Assume that no $179$ expensing is claimed and that $200\%$ declining$-$balance cost recovery with the

half$-$year convention is used. The recovery limitation for an auto placed in service in $2019$ is as follows: $$10,100($first year$),$ $$16,100$

$($second year$),$ $$9,700($third year$),$ and $$5,760($fourth year$).]$

Compute his depreciation deductions for year. Click here to access the depreciation table.

Brent's adjusted basis in the auto on January $1,2023,$ is $