CS Basics
Depreciation Rules
Terms
100

This engineering-based study allows you to accelerate depreciation.

What is cost segregation?

100

Land is depreciable 

What is false?

100

Acquisition minus land

What is Building Basis?

200

Instead of generating credits, cost segregation generates these.

What are deductions?

200

The standard depreciable life for a commercial building is this many years.

What is 39 years?

200

This is what ASCP stands for in cost segregation.

What is American Society of Cost Segregation Professionals?

300

Cost segregation does not create brand-new deductions, it only changes their timing.

What is true?
300

The standard depreciable life for a residential building is this many years.

What is 27.5 years?

300

This record shows how much of a building’s value is written off each year for tax purposes and is the most crucial document to review before performing a cost segregation study.

What is a depreciation schedule?

400

This is the reason why land value is removed from the purchase price in cost segregation studies.

What is “land is not depreciable”?

400

It is most beneficial to do a cost segregation study at this point in time.

What is as close to the purchase date or placed in service date as possible?

400

When a residential property is too small for KBKG to perform a standard study a different software is used

What is Residential Cost Segregator?

500

The typical timeframe for KBKG to complete a full cost segregation study after receiving the signed engagement letter.

What is 45–60 days?

500

If a cost segregation prospect’s tax filing deadline is 3/15 and they extend, this becomes their new deadline.

What is 9/15?

500

To qualify for the Residential Cost Segregator (RCS), a property must meet these three requirements.

What is: (1) Residential Property, (2) 6 units or less, (3) Depreciable basis of $1.2M or less?