The IRS has issued guidance to address legislative changes in the CARES Act. QIP placed in service in 2018 and later is now eligible for bonus depreciation and has a GDS life of 15 years (20-years ADS).
The CARES Act, signed into law on March 27, 2020, contained a few tax surprises, including fixing the “retail glitch.” The retail glitch is the term used for language omitted in the Tax Cuts and Job Act (TCJA…
Qualified Improvement Property (QIP) placed in service after December 31, 2017 now has a GDS life of 15 years and an ADS life of 20 years. Perhaps even more importantly, QIP is now eligible for 100% bonus depreciation per current law.
Changes to Qualified Improvement Property are included in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (aka the CARES Act) legislation. The CARES Act, signed into law on March…
By Bob McElroy, Certified Trainer, Sage University
The textbook that we use to teach Principles of Fixed Assets Accounting, one of the classes offered through Sage U, is currently being revised. This new textbook revision will include the new tax extenders in 2020. Here below is a recap of these updates to applicable tax law.
The expense limit will be $1,040,000 in 2020. As a review, here’s how that new figure…
A new feature, Bulk Edit, and two new depreciation methods, RH and RM, are available in Sage Fixed Assets-Depreciation 2019.1 and later to easily change the depreciation method and life for multiple assets.
The features were prompted by an election available under section 163(j), added by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) and available for real property…
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This blog post contains steps, as well as links to applicable Sage KB articles, for three of the most common reasons why Sage Fixed Assets customers have contacted us for help recently: changing critical deprecation fields, installing a client, and performing a custom import.
To change a critical field (any field in the lower, Book Information portion of the asset’s detail view):…
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Whether you’re a seasoned user or just getting started, there’s a class to help make your job easier and ensure you’re fully utilizing…
“I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career.” – Retired CIA Agent Bryan Mills portrayed by Liam Neeson, from the movie Taken.
Being able to work with data in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet requires a certain set of skills. And some of the most skilled people I have ever met were on the Accounting staff…
I was out sick with pneumonia for the first time in my life and it sucked. I am used to moving and working at warp speed, always. Stuck in bed, bored, and feverish... what's a person to do? Reflect on fixed asset accounting? Perhaps, but not just 'fixed assets' in general... specifically, the trials and tribulations of fixed asset accounting and procedural workflow.
Trials and tribulations? In fixed assets…
By Kathleen Donaghy and Ann Donie
If you were busy with year-end, you may have missed some expired tax incentives and credits that were extended in the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 signed into law by the President on February 9, 2018. Typically, these tax breaks are extended yearly for one or two years at a time, usually right at year end. This year they were later than usual and rolled into the bipartisan budget act…
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Involve All Departments
Although fixed asset management projects are typically initiated either by Finance, Tax or IT, they should involve all departments.
It is not uncalled for that each department may have their own set of lists and ideas about what qualifies for a capital asset versus expensed. In addition, everyone should be aware of the rules and processes for disposing, the differences between transferring or moving…
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Construction in progress accounting for fixed asset management can have many names, but in the end, it's all the same. Tracking all costs associated with incoming 'pre-fixed assets' during your capital project. These can include both, intangible and tangible assets. Either way, they all need to be properly tracked, organized and accounted for.
Time and time again, I have witnessed assets getting missed when…
President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (P.L. 115-97) (The Act) into law on December 22, 2017. The Act provides the most sweeping change to the U.S. tax code since 1986. This historic bill calls for lowering the individual and corporate tax rates, repealing countless tax credits and deductions, enhancing the child tax credit, boosting business expensing and more. The final law varies from the first version passed…
