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Accelerated Depreciation and Income Growth

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  • William Beranek
  • Edward B. Selby

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This paper challenges the belief that accelerated depreciation methods are always superior to the straight‐line method—especially for low‐tax bracket owners of highly leveraged investments who have prospects for income growth. The root of the problem is our highly progressive income tax structure and the nature of loan amortization schedules which increase a debtor's taxable income while decreasing his net cash flows. When the entire personal and corporate tax schedules are used to test alternative depreciation methods, our simulation results demonstrate that the much maligned straight‐line method is optimal for suitably low discount rates.

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  • William Beranek & Edward B. Selby, 1981. "Accelerated Depreciation and Income Growth," Real Estate Economics, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, vol. 9(1), pages 67-73, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:reesec:v:9:y:1981:i:1:p:67-73
    DOI: 10.1111/1540-6229.00232
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