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- From: tegammk@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Kazmierczak)
- Newsgroups: misc.taxes
- Subject: Re: Home offices deduction case
- Message-ID: <81781@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:34:29 GMT
- References: <C17qxI.GnA@hpfcmdd.fc.hp.com> <1993Jan22.213438.18934@cbnews.cb.att.com> <CARL.93Jan25163749@atlantis.Cayman.COM>
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- In article <CARL.93Jan25163749@atlantis.Cayman.COM> carl@Cayman.COM (Carl Heinzl) writes:
- >
- >Actually this isn't usually a very big deduction compared to others
- >that are available. Consider a 200k house (the depreciation period is
- >27.5 years, btw) - that's (200k/27.5)/7 = $1038.96. So, if you're in
- >the 31% bracket it means an extra $322 in tax refund.
- >
- Plus I believe that when you sell the house, you have to recapture most, if
- not all of your depreciation. So you hold a small part of the gov's money for
- a while (not a bad thing). But it isn't the end of the rainbow.
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- Mike
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- Mike Kazmierczak
- Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, 30332
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