With bonus depreciation gone, even equipment leasing companies that do not make any more book profit in 2005 than they did in 2004 may nonetheless find themselves facing sharply higher tax liabilities. In fact, 2005 taxes will be especially painful: First, equipment leasing companies will not have the advantage of applying bonus depreciation to new assets, so they have lost a substantial deduction. Second, depreciation is a zero-sum game. You can speed up or slow down the schedule, but you can never depreciate more than 100% of an asset's cost. So if you depreciate and deduct more than 50% of the value in its first year, there is significantly less value available to depreciate in subsequent years.
Nancy A. GearyPart Two of a Two-Part Series
Life Without Bonus Depreciation
With bonus depreciation gone, even equipment leasing companies that do not make any more book profit in 2005 than they did in 2004 may nonetheless find themselves facing sharply higher tax liabilities.
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