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Music depreciation recapture is the USA Internal Revenue Service IRS procedure for collecting income tax on a gain realized by a taxpayer when the taxpayer disposes of an asset that had previously provided an offset to ordinary income for the taxpayer through depreciation in other words because the IRS allows a taxpayer to deduct the depreciation of an asset from the taxpayers ordinary income the taxpayer has to report any gain from the disposal of the asset up to the recomputed basis as ordinary income not as a capital gain depreciation recapture most commonly applies when dealing with the sale of improved real estate such as rental property as the value of real estate generally increases over time while the improvements are subject to depreciation depreciation recapture in the USA is governed by sections twelve forty five and twelve fifty of the IRC any gain over the recomputed basis will be taxed as a capital gain in accordance with section 1231 of the Internal Revenue Code IRC this article is about the system used in the USA and Canada but other countries have similar procedures in the UK HMRC uses negative depreciation the starting point for determining when the depreciation recapture will occur is to determine the basis of the asset there are three different types of basis original adjusted and recomputed basis the original basis of an asset is usually the value of the taxpayers investment in the asset C IRC paragraph 1012 when the taxpayer purchases an asset the original basis is the purchase price or cost of the asset different factors including tax deductions for depreciation can lead to an adjusted or recon peuta basis for the asset see IRC paragraph 1016 and IRC paragraph 1245 a to a an adjusted basis under IRC 1016 is the...