August 2004
Intermediate to advanced
656 pages
15h 28m
English
When a depreciable asset is sold or scrapped, any difference between its book value and the actual amount received needs to be accounted for in the corporation's income taxes. A loss, meaning that the actual amount received is less than the book value, is subtracted from the net ordinary income before taxes. If Blizzard Systems scrapped a computer with a book value of $5000 and their net ordinary income was $165,000, they would be taxed on $160,000 net income.
If the actual value is more than the book value, the difference, called depreciation recapture, is typically taxed as ordinary income. Assuming ABCSoft had a computer with no book value (i.e., it had been completely depreciated) ...
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