I definitions and special rules for purposes of this section 1 class life.
Macrs life of carpet.
If the carpet is tacked down it is classified as personal property and is depreciated over five years.
Thus if the class life of carpet e g is more than 4 but less than 10 years the landlord depreciates carpet over 5 years because it is 5 year property.
Each item of property that can be depreciated under macrs is assigned to a property class determined by its class life.
The table specifies asset lives for property subject to depreciation under the general depreciation system provided in section 168 a of the irc or the alternative depreciation system provided in section 168 g.
But if the carpet in a residential rental property is glued down it is considered to be part of the building structure and must be depreciated over a whopping 27 5 years.
Appliances carpet and furniture when used in connection with rental property all have a five year useful life.
These types of flooring include hardwood tile vinyl and glued down carpet.
This applies however only to carpets that are tacked down.
The property class generally determines the depreciation method recovery period and convention.
Repairing is the key to your tax treatment replacing destroyed appliances carpet and linoleum are an asset and depreciated 5 years.
Most flooring is considered to be permanently affixed.
If the carpet is glued down perhaps in a basement then it becomes attached to the property and must be depreciated over 27 5 years.
In this case the assets continue to serve you but you cannot claim any depreciation on them.
Simple mortgage calculator like appliance depreciation carpets are normally depreciated over 5 years.
But what is class life.
The macrs asset life table is derived from revenue procedure 87 56 1987 2 cb 674.