Valuing and reporting gifts in kind and donated services

Valuing and reporting gifts in kind and donated servicesNot-for-profit organizations don’t receive only cash donations. Your support also likely comes in the form of gifts in kind and donated services. But even when such gifts are welcome, it can be challenging to determine how to recognize and assign value to them for financial reporting purposes.

Tangible property safe harbors help maximize deductions

Tangible property safe harbors help maximize deductionsIf last year your business made repairs to tangible property, such as buildings, machinery, equipment or vehicles, you may be eligible for a valuable deduction on your 2016 income tax return. But you must make sure they were truly “repairs,” and not actually “improvements.”

Why 2016 may be an especially good year to take bonus depreciation

Why 2016 may be an especially good year to take bonus depreciationBonus depreciation allows businesses to recover the costs of depreciable property more quickly by claiming additional first-year depreciation for qualified assets. The PATH Act, signed into law a little over a year ago, extended 50% bonus depreciation through 2017.