Joe Purchased a New Five-Year Class Asset on June 1

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Essay

Joe purchased a new five-year class asset on June 1, 2012.The asset is listed property (not an automobile).It was used 55% for business and 45% for the production of income.The asset cost $1,000,000.Joe made the § 179 election.Joe's taxable income would not create a limitation for purposes of the § 179 deduction. Joe does not take additional first-year depreciation.Determine Joe's total cost recovery (including the § 179 deduction) for the year.

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Definitions:

Fetishism of Commodities

A term from Marxist theory describing the way in which the social relationships involved in production are expressed as relationships between commodities, obscuring the labor that went into them.

Economic Exchanges

Transactions that involve the transfer of goods, services, or money between individuals, businesses, or entities within an economic system.

Social Structures

The organized pattern of social relations and institutions that together compose society, providing a framework within which social interaction occurs.

Species Being

A concept in Marxist theory referring to the inherent nature of humans to shape their environment and themselves through labor.