Cost segregation case study · Short-term rental

The Salt House Marion

7 Saltmeadow Way · placed in service May 15, 2025
Purchase + remodel
$907K
Depreciable basis
$546K
Year-one deduction
$348K
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The Salt House Marion
Where the cash went

$907K in, split into land, building, and remodel

The property was bought for $565,000 and remodeled for $341,964, $906,964 in all. Land never depreciates, so it's carved out first; everything else becomes depreciable basis the study then accelerates.

Where the $907K went

Every dollar in, by where it landed. Land never depreciates; building plus remodel is what the study accelerates.
$907Ktotal spend
Land (never depreciates)$361,092 · 40%
Building basis (from purchase)$203,908 · 22%
Remodel (capitalized)$341,964 · 38%
Building $203,908 + remodel $341,964 = $545,873 depreciable basis.
The remodel · partial disposition

A remodel does two things at once

Placed in service May 15, 2025, this study applies a 100% bonus rate. A remodel triggers two deductions in the same year: the old components torn out are written off, and the new short-life improvements take 100% bonus.

Partial asset disposition

The torn-out components, written off now.
Disposition write-off
$163,127
Remaining tax basis of components removed in the remodel, deducted in year one under Treas. Reg. §1.168(i)-8: a one-time loss, not spread over 27.5 years.

100% bonus on short-life

Bonus rate for property placed in service 2025.
Short-life reclassified
$180,448
5- and 15-year property pulled out of the building shell. 100% takes bonus in year one; the rest follows the normal MACRS schedule.
Inside the study

What the engine found

The deterministic engine separated the $545,873 depreciable basis into IRS recovery classes, then the engineered review confirmed every component against the source documents.

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Engineered review passed · 636 components, 7 sources
Depreciable basis$546K
Short-life reclass$180K · 33%
Year-one deduction$348K

Component allocation

$545,873 depreciable basis across MACRS recovery classes.
$546Kbasis
5-year personal property$164,316 · 30%
15-year land improvements$16,132 · 3%
39-year building shell$202,298 · 37%
Written off this year (disposition)$163,127 · 30%
Furniture & furnishings $95KProject management (§263A a… $11KLandscaping: plantings & be… $11KKitchen cabinetry: built-in $8KCeiling fan $7KTelevision $6KHVAC system, zoned $5KHVAC system, zoned $4K

Year one, in dollars

Two deductions stack in the first year.
Accelerated depreciation$184,555
Partial-asset disposition write-off$163,127
Total year-one deduction$347,681
Straight-line without a study~$13,997/yr
About 25× more deduction pulled into year one than straight-line.

Depreciation by year

Year-one spike from bonus depreciation, then the building shell.
Year 1$347,681
Year 2$5,188
Year 3$5,188
Year 4$5,188
Year 5$5,188
Year 6$5,188
Year 7$5,188
Year 8$5,187
Year 9$5,187
Year 10$5,187
Year 11$5,187
Year 12$5,187
Year 13$5,187
Year 14$5,187
Year 15$5,187
Year 16$5,187
Year 17$5,187
Year 18$5,187
Year 19$5,187
Year 20$5,187
Year 21$5,187
Year 22$5,187
Year 23$5,187
Year 24$5,187
Year 25$5,187
Year 26$5,187
Year 27$5,187
Year 28$5,187
Year 29$5,187
Year 30$5,187
Year 31$5,187
Year 32$5,187
Year 33$5,187
Year 34$5,187
Year 35$5,187
Year 36$5,187
Year 37$5,187
Year 38$5,187
Year 39$5,187
Year 40$1,080
Method. Allocations follow the IRS Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide, Rev. Proc. 87-56, and MACRS (Pub. 946), with the 100% bonus rate (placed in service 2025) applied to qualifying 5- and 15-year property. The engine produces the figures deterministically; AI is used only to sort and extract from uploaded documents. Every line cleared the engineered review.
State tax treatment

What each state does with this deduction

Each state this study touches, classified by how it treats the federal year-one deduction.

Massachusetts (MA)Bonus decoupledPreliminary · pending verification
State still allows the deduction, but delays part of it.
$347,681
Federal year-one deduction
$200,903
Massachusetts year-one deduction
$146,778
Added back this year, recovered later

Lifetime difference: $0. Timing only, recovered in later years.

MA defers up to $146,778 of the deduction, then returns it over the following years, reaching $0 by year 14. The lifetime deduction is the same; only the timing differs.

Peak deferral Still to be recovered, by year

You still get the federal deduction now. Massachusetts taxable income is $146,778 higher than federal in year one, but that amount is deducted in later years.

Filing action

Use the federal schedule for the federal return and a Massachusetts recomputation schedule for the MA return.

Schedule: MA Schedule E adjustment

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