Section 179 Deduction Calculator

Section 179 Deduction calculator is an easy-to-use calculator to estimate your tax savings on equipment purchases in 2022 and tax year 2023. As you know, for small business taxpayers, the section 179 deduction impacts your equipment costs.

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What is Section 179 Deduction?

Section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code allows the deduction of the full purchase price of qualifying machinery and/or software purchased or financed during the tax year from gross income. This is beneficial to business owners because your taxable income is reduced substantially in the year of purchase of equipment, machinery or software. This is contrary to the general rule of deducting depreciation on the purchase of machinery or equipment over a period of years. So, in the year of purchase, you can deduct only a portion of the cost.

For example, let me give a hypothetical example. If your company spends $30,000 on a machine, it gets to write off (say) $6,000 a year for five years. But under section 179, you can write off the entire cost of qualifying equipment on the 2022 tax return up to the maximum investments allowed $1,040,000.This reduces your business income in the year of purchase of equipment itself.

What are the limits of the section 179 deduction?

Following are the limitations for the claim of deduction u/s 179 of the IRC.

1. The total amount that can be written off in Year 2020 can not be more than $1,040,000 .
2. There is also a limit to the total amount of equipment purchased in one year i.e $2,590,000 in year 2020. 
3. The phase-out of the section 179 deduction begins at  $2,590,000 and completely ends once the limit of $3,630,000 in equipment purchases is reached.
4. The purchased or financed equipment and/or software must be placed into service between January 1, 2020 and December 31, 2020.
5. The equipment, vehicle(s), and/or software must be used for business purposes more than 50% of the time to qualify for the Section 179 Deduction.

What type of purchases qualifies for section 179 deduction?

To qualify for the section 179 deduction, your property must be one of the following types of depreciable property.

1. Tangible personal property.
2. Other tangible property (except buildings and their structural components) used as:
   1. An integral part of manufacturing, production, or extraction, or of furnishing transportation, communications, electricity, gas, water, or sewage disposal services;
   2. A research facility used in connection with any of the activities in (a) above; or
   3. A facility is used in connection with any activities in (a) for the bulk storage of fungible commodities.
3. Single-purpose agricultural (livestock) or horticultural structures. See chapter 7 of Pub. 225 for definitions and information regarding the use requirements that apply to these structures.
4. Storage facilities (except buildings and their structural components) are used in connection with distributing petroleum or any primary petroleum product.
5. Off-the-shelf computer software.
6. Qualified section 179 real property (described below).

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