On July $1,2020,$ Brent purchases a new automobile for $$37,000.$ He uses the car $82\%$ for business and drives the car for business purposes as follows: $6,500$ miles in $2020,16,250$ miles in $2021,18,200$ miles in $2022,$ and $13,000$ miles in $2023.$

Determine Brent's basis in the business portion of the auto as of January $1,2024,$ under the following assumptions:

If required, round your computations to the nearest dollar.

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a$.$ Brent uses the automatic mileage method.

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

$2020$:

$2021$:

$2022$:

$2023$:

Brent's adjusted basis in the auto on January $1,2024,$ is $fill in the blank

$.$

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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 cost recovery limitation for an auto placed in service in $2020$ 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.

$2020$:

$2021$: $

$2022$:

$2023$:

Brent's adjusted basis in the auto on January $1,2024,$ is $fill in the blank

$.$