Dain’s Diamond Bit Drilling purchased the following assets this year.    Purchase Original Asset Date Basis Drill bits (5-year) January 25 $ 90,000 Drill bits (5-year) July 25   95,000 Commercial building April 22   220,000   Assume its taxable income for the year was $53,000 for purposes of computing the §179 expense (assume no bonus depreciation). (Use MACRS Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4 and Table 5.) (Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.) Q:  If the January drill bits’ original basis was $3,875,000, what is the maximum amount of §179 expense Dain's may deduct for the year?

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Dain’s Diamond Bit Drilling purchased the following assets this year. 

  Purchase Original
Asset Date Basis
Drill bits (5-year) January 25 $ 90,000
Drill bits (5-year) July 25   95,000
Commercial building April 22   220,000
 

Assume its taxable income for the year was $53,000 for purposes of computing the §179 expense (assume no bonus depreciation). (Use MACRS Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4 and Table 5.) (Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable.)

Q:  If the January drill bits’ original basis was $3,875,000, what is the maximum amount of §179 expense Dain's may deduct for the year?


      

 

 

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