Depreciation is the recovery of the cost of a physical asset, like property or equipment, over multiple years. It allows companies to spread out the cost of some expenses, reduce taxable income and ...

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Depreciation recapture is the process by which the IRS reclaims tax benefits previously obtained through depreciation when an investor sells a depreciable asset for more than its depreciated value.

If your firm still computes depreciation manually, and cannot justify the extra software costs just to get out a listing of fixed assets with the depreciation computed correctly, you may want to look ...