California · Cost segregation
Cost Segregation in California
Decoupled from federal bonus depreciation.
California has decoupled from federal bonus depreciation. You still take the full federal deduction; California spreads the bonus portion over the asset's normal recovery schedule.
California at a glance
- Bonus-depreciation conformity
- Decoupled from federal bonus depreciation
- §179 treatment
- Caps §179 expensing at $25,000 (below the federal limit)
- §1250 recapture
- Recaptured as ordinary income at the state level
- Top individual rate
- 13.3%
- State return form
- Form 540
How cost segregation works
Cost segregation reclassifies parts of a building into shorter recovery classes (5-, 7-, and 15-year property) instead of depreciating everything over 27.5 or 39 years. That front-loads your deductions — and federal can let you write off much of the reclassified basis in year one. How much of that benefit also flows through at the state level depends on California’s conformity rules above.
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