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15-year recovery period for certain restaurant property.


Before the enactment of the AJCA AJCA American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 (US)
AJCA American Jersey Cattle Association
AJCA Association of Juvenile Compact Administrators
AJCA All Japan Cooks Association
AJCA Alabama Junior Cattlemen’s Association
, if a leasehold improvement Leasehold Improvement

Improvements on a leased asset that increase the value of the asset.

Notes:
A leasehold improvement is classified as an asset that must be depreciated over time.
 constituted an addition or improvement to nonresidential real property already placed in service, the improvement had to be depreciated Depreciated may refer to:
  • Depreciation, in finance, a reference to the fact that assets with finite lives lose value over time
  • Depreciated is often confused or used as a stand-in for "deprecated"; see deprecation for the use of depreciation in computer software
 using the straight-line method Noun 1. straight-line method - (accounting) a method of calculating depreciation by taking an equal amount of the asset's cost as an expense for each year of the asset's useful life
straight-line method of depreciation
 over 39 years, under Sec. 168.

New Law

AJCA Section 211 requires that "qualified restaurant property" be depreciated using the straight-line method and a 15-year recovery period. Qualified restaurant property is defined as any improvement to a building if such improvement is placed in service more than three years after the date the building was first placed in service and more than 50% of the building's square footage is devoted to the preparation of, and seating for, on-premises consumption of prepared meals.

Effective Date

The provision is effective for property placed in service after Oct. 22, 2004.

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