Userid: CPM Schema: Leadpct: 100% Pt. size: 9.5 Draft Ok to Print instrx AH XSL/XML Fileid: … ions/I4562/2020/A/XML/Cycle07/source (Init. & Date) _______ Page 1 of 21 9:19 - 21-Jan-2021 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. Department of the Treasury 2020 Internal Revenue Service Instructions for Form 4562 Depreciation and Amortization (Including Information on Listed Property) Section references are to the Internal Revenue • A section 179 expense deduction Generally, you can depreciate: Code unless otherwise noted. (which may include a carryover from a • Tangible property such as buildings, previous year). machinery, vehicles, furniture, and Future Developments • Depreciation on any vehicle or other equipment; and For the latest information about listed property (regardless of when it • Intangible property such as patents, developments related to Form 4562 and was placed in service). copyrights, and computer software. its instructions, such as legislation A deduction for any vehicle reported • Exception. You cannot depreciate enacted after this form and instructions on a form other than Schedule C (Form land. were published, go to IRS.gov/ 1040), Profit or Loss From Business. Form4562. • Any depreciation on a corporate Accelerated Cost Recovery income tax return (other than Form System 1120-S). What's New The Accelerated Cost Recovery System Amortization of costs that begins • (ACRS) applies to property first used Section 179 deduction dollar limits. during the 2020 tax year. For tax years beginning in 2020, the before 1987. It is the name given for the maximum section 179 expense If you are an employee deducting tax rules that allow a taxpayer to recover deduction is $1,040,000 ($1,075,000 for job-related vehicle expenses using through depreciation deductions the qualified enterprise zone property). This either the standard mileage rate or cost of property used in a trade or limit is reduced by the amount by which actual expenses, use Form 2106, business or to produce income. These the cost of section 179 property placed Employee Business Expenses, for this rules are mandatory and generally apply in service during the tax year exceeds purpose. to tangible property placed in service $2,590,000. Also, the maximum section after 1980 and before 1987. If you File a separate Form 4562 for each 179 expense deduction for sport utility placed property in service during this business or activity on your return for vehicles placed in service in tax years period, you must continue to figure your which Form 4562 is required. If you beginning in 2020 is $25,900. depreciation under ACRS. need more space, attach additional The increased section 179 deduction sheets. However, complete only one ACRS consists of accelerated for an enterprise zone business has Part I in its entirety when computing depreciation methods and an alternate been terminated for property placed in your section 179 expense deduction. ACRS method that could have been service in tax years beginning after See the instructions for Line 12, later. elected. The alternate ACRS method December 31, 2020. See the used a recovery percentage based on a instructions for Part I. Additional Information modified straight line method. See the Special depreciation allowance for For more information about depreciation instructions for line 16 for more qualified second generation biofuel and amortization (including information information. For a complete discussion plant property. The special on listed property), see the following. of ACRS, see Pub. 534. depreciation allowance will not apply to • Pub. 463, Travel, Gift, and Car qualified second generation biofuel Expenses. Modified Accelerated Cost plant property placed in service after • Pub. 534, Depreciating Property Recovery System December 31, 2020. Placed in Service Before 1987. The Modified Accelerated Cost • Pub. 535, Business Expenses. Recovery System (MACRS) is the General Instructions • Pub. 551, Basis of Assets. current method of accelerated asset • Pub. 946, How To Depreciate depreciation required by the tax code. Property. Under MACRS, all assets are divided Purpose of Form into classes which dictate the number of Use Form 4562 to: Definitions years over which an asset's cost will be • Claim your deduction for depreciation recovered. Each MACRS class has a and amortization, Depreciation predetermined schedule which • Make the election under section 179 Depreciation is the annual deduction determines the percentage of the to expense certain property, and that allows you to recover the cost or asset's costs which is depreciated each • Provide information on the business/ other basis of your business or year. For more information, see Part III. investment use of automobiles and investment property over a certain MACRS Depreciation, later. For a other listed property. number of years. Depreciation starts complete discussion of MACRS, see when you first use the property in your chapter 4 of Pub. 946. Who Must File business or for the production of Except as otherwise noted, complete income. It ends when you either take the Section 179 Property and file Form 4562 if you are claiming property out of service, deduct all your Section 179 property is property that any of the following. depreciable cost or basis, or no longer you acquire by purchase for use in the • Depreciation for property placed in use the property in your business or for active conduct of your trade or service during the 2020 tax year. the production of income. business, and is one of the following. Jan 21, 2021 Cat. No. 12907Y Page 2 of 21 Fileid: … ions/I4562/2020/A/XML/Cycle07/source 9:19 - 21-Jan-2021 The type and rule above prints on all proofs including departmental reproduction proofs. MUST be removed before printing. • Qualified section 179 real property. • Qualified improvement property as 3. An ambulance, hearse, or vehicle For more information, see Special rules described in section 168(e)(6), and used for transporting persons or for qualified section 179 real property, • Any of the following improvements to property for compensation or hire; or later. nonresidential real property placed in 4. Any truck or van placed in service • Tangible personal property, including service after the date the nonresidential after July 6, 2003, that is a qualified cellular telephones, similar real property was first placed in service. nonpersonal use vehicle. telecommunications equipment, and air 1. Roofs. conditioning or heating units (for For purposes of the exceptions example, portable air conditioners or 2. Heating, ventilation, and above, a portion of the taxpayer's home heaters). Also, tangible personal air-conditioning property. is treated as a regular business property may include certain property 3. Fire protection and alarm establishment only if that portion meets used mainly to furnish lodging or in systems. the requirements for deducting connection with the furnishing of lodging 4. Security systems. expenses attributable to the business (except as provided in section 50(b)(2)). use of a home. However, for any This property is considered "qualified property listed in (1) above, the regular • Other tangible property (except section 179 real property." buildings and their structural business establishment of an employee components) used as: A deduction attributable to qualified is his or her employer's regular business section 179 real property which is establishment. 1. An integral part of manufacturing, disallowed under the trade or business production, or extraction, or of income limitation (see Business Income Commuting furnishing transportation, Limit in chapter 2 of Pub. 946) for 2020 Generally, commuting is defined as communications, electricity, gas, water, can be carried over to 2021. Thus, the travel between your home and a work or sewage disposal services; amount of any 2020 disallowed section location. However, travel that meets any 2. A research facility used in 179 expense deduction attributable to of the following conditions is not connection with any of the activities in qualified section 179 real property will commuting. (1) above; or be reported on line 13 of Form 4562. • You have at least one regular work location away from your home and the 3. A facility used in connection with Amortization any of the activities in (1) above for the travel is to a temporary work location in bulk storage of fungible commodities. Amortization is similar to the straight line the same trade or business, regardless • Single purpose agricultural (livestock) method of depreciation in that an annual of the distance. Generally, a temporary or horticultural structures. deduction is allowed to recover certain work location is one where your • Storage facilities (except buildings costs over a fixed time period. You can employment is expected to last 1 year and their structural components) used in amortize such items as the costs of or less. See Pub. 463 for details. connection with distributing petroleum starting a business, goodwill, and • The travel is to a temporary work or any primary product of petroleum. certain other intangibles. See the location outside the metropolitan area instructions for Part VI. • Off the shelf computer software. where you live and normally work. Listed Property • Your home is your principal place of Section 179 property does not business for purposes of deducting include the following. Listed property generally includes the expenses for business use