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Client claims daycare business and deducts in home expenses. Has turned the garage into a play center can she claim the garage by depreciating the value of the garage? If not, how would she claim the play center.
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Add the square footage of garage to area used exclusively for daycare. see pub 587
			
		
			
	
	
			
				
		
		
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		12-26-2022
	
		
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And you depreciate the cost of the garage, not the value (unless the value is less than cost on the day it became used for business.)
The more I know the more I don’t know.
			
		
			
	
	
			
				
		
		
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		12-29-2022
	
		
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Thank you for your prompt response.