The tax cut and jobs act of 2017 brought with it the option for 100 bonus depreciation on solar systems which is often a great way for businesses to quickly recover costs associated with integrating solar energy.
Bonus depreciation on solar panels.
Year 1 20 year 2 32 year 3 19 2 year 4 11 5 year 5 11 5 and year 6 5 8.
Normally the depreciable life of solar panels is 85 of the full solar system cost which may be depreciated roughly as follows.
167 includes a special allowance for qualified property for the tax year in which the property is placed inservice.
Bonus depreciation under sec.
168 k 1 a the depreciation deduction provided by sec.
For 2011 the special allowance was 100 of the adjusted basis of certain qualified property.
Depreciation on solar panels is one of the easiest ways businesses and farms looking to go solar can keep installation costs down rois high and paybacks short.
Tax court allows bonus depreciation solar energy credit to taxpayer tax alert june 07 2018 on june 5 2018 the united states tax court ruled in favor of the petitioner taxpayer in claiming the solar energy credit under sections 46 and 48 and macrs bonus depreciation under section 168 k 5.
The other 50 is depreciated using the normal depreciation table in this case 5 year macrs so in the first year the 50 bonus depreciation reduces the post itc basis by half from 850 000 to 425 000.