What makes artwork a non-depreciable asset? Is there some threshold value that the IRS recognizes? Isn't most "art" hanging in most businesses more a depreciable item of décor as opposed to a true investment that will hold its value or appreciated in value? If this is the case and we don't depreciate the asset, aren't assets overstated?

Do most businesses depreciate their non-investment grade art?

Artwork by IRS regulation is not a depreciable asset.

Depreciable property needs to have some kind of determinable life to be consistent with section 167 of the law. Artwork does not have that. It does not 'wear out' and thus cannot be depreciated.

Interesting question though.

Artwork by IRS regulation is not a depreciable asset.

Thanks for the answers!

Learned something new today!

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Dean Allen Phelps

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