Tom Tom LLC purchased a rental house and land during the current year for $150,000. The purchase price was allocated as follows: $100,000 to the building and $50,000 to the land. The property was placed in service on May 22. Calculate Tom Tom's maximum depreciation for this first year:

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Explanation:

In this question, we are asked to calculate Tom Tom’s maximum depreciation for this first year.

The term maximum depreciation is accounting principle talks about to what extent has the value of an asset been used.

To calculate his maximum depreciation, we need to be conversant with some conventions. The mid-month convention is what we need to understand here. What the convention assumes is that an asset which is placed into service during a given month is assumed to have been placed into

Such service at the middle of such month in question. Also, it is also assumed that disposing an asset at the beginning of one month or any other time of the month is same as disposing the said asset at the middle of the month. This is what the mid month convention is talking about.

It must also be noted that Residential property has a 27.5-year recovery period. The depreciation is thus $2,273 ($100,000 x 2.273%). This gives us the value of the maximum depreciation