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Mark,
Improvements have to be capitalized unless you meet few safe harbors. And, yes improvements can be depreciated but will be recaptured later when you sell the house and taxed at 25%.
Yes, itemized receipts are must if you want to take full advantage of the deduction. Itemized receipts are also needed when you check if you qualify for the safe harbor I was mentioning above.
Two of the safe harbors that can help you deduct improvements are below:
1) 2500 de minimis safe harbor.
the safe harbor applies to amounts paid during the tax year to acquire or produce what the regs call a “unit of property” (UOP), you must meet these requirements:
- (1)you need to have written accounting procedures treating as an expense for non-tax purposes amounts paid for property costing less than a specified dollar amount (which will be 2500 for you), or with an economic useful life of 12 months or less;.
- (2) the taxpayer treats the amount paid for the property as an expense on its books and records in accordance with its accounting procedures. ( do this on your bookkeeping software or whatever you utilize)
- (3) the amount paid for the UOP doesn't exceed $2,500. as substantiated by the invoice
- Note: The cost for the Unit of Property includes l additional costs (for example, delivery fees, installation services, or similar costs) if these additional costs are included on the same invoice with the property.
2) Small taxpayer safe harbor: To be eligible for the safe harbor, the total amount of improvements for the property for the tax year may not exceed the lesser of
- $10,000 or
- 2% of the property's unadjusted basis.
If the total amount paid exceeds the safe harbor threshold, the safe harbor does not apply to any amounts spent during the tax year.
- Ashish Acharya
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