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Chapter 2
Property Acquisition and Cost Recovery
SOLUTIONS MANUAL
Discussion Questions
1. [LO 1] Explain the reasoning why the tax laws require the cost of certain assets to be
capitalized and recovered over time rather than immediately expensed.
Assets with an expected life of more than one year must be capitalized and
recovered through depreciation, amortization, or depletion deductions—
depending on the type of underlying asset. The policy attempts to match the
revenues and expenses for these assets because the assets have a useful life of
more than one year.
2. [LO 1] Explain the differences and similarities between personal property, real
property, intangible property, and natural resources. Also, provide an example of each
type of asset.
Personal property, real property, and natural resources are all tangible
property than can be seen and touched. Natural resources are assets that occur
naturally (e.g. timber or coal). Real property is land and all property that is
attached to land (e.g. buildings). Personal property is all tangible property that
is not a natural resource or real property. Intangibles are all intellectual
property rights (e.g. patents and copyrights) and any other value not assigned
as a tangible asset during a purchase (e.g. goodwill). Each of these has an
expected useful life of more than one year.
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4. [LO 1] Is an asset’s initial or cost basis simply its purchase price? Explain.
The initial basis of any purchased business asset is historical cost. This is
generally the purchase price, plus any other expenses (e.g. sales tax and
installation costs) incurred to get the asset in working condition. This does not
include costs which substantially improve or extend the life of an asset such as
a building addition.
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5. [LO 1] Compare and contrast the basis of property acquired via purchase, conversion
from personal use to business or rental use, a nontaxable exchange, gift, and
inheritance.
The basis of purchased assets is historical cost. The basis rules for other
acquisitions depend on whether the transaction was taxable or not. For taxable
transactions there is usually a step-up in basis to fair market value. For non-
taxable transactions, there is usually a carryover basis. Conversion of assets
from personal use gets the lesser of the two values. The specific rules are as
follows:
6. [LO 1] Explain why the expenses incurred to get an asset in place and operable should
be included in the asset’s basis.
Additional expenses, including sales tax, shipping, installation costs, and the
like are capitalized into an asset’s basis because all costs required to place an
asset into service are required to be included into its basis. That is, without
these costs, the taxpayer would not be able to place in service or use the asset
in a business.
7. [LO 1] Graber Corporation runs a long-haul trucking business. Graber incurs the
following expenses: replacement tires, oil changes, and a transmission overhaul.
Which of these expenditures may be deducted currently and which must be capitalized?
Explain.
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“Whenever Thérèse loves,—and I think I can trust her to commit
no folly with that sound heart of hers,—she shall marry; and she
shall enter upon her new state as I entered upon mine, with the view
of being all and doing all for society of which that state admits. This
may best be done by being wholly her husband’s, and a fixture in his
home. I shall surrender my part in her on her marriage day.”
“By which, I suppose, you hope to retain at least half her heart, if
none of her services. But, my dear, what a prospect for you!”
“A goodly prospect indeed, either way. Either a friend at hand, and
a fit guardian of my children in my absence; or a successful
experiment in happiness-making, ever before my eyes. I hope ever
to rejoice in Thérèse.”
Lady Frances sighed, and began to ponder whether, even if she
could learn to live without Philips, she could make to herself a maid
in whom she might rejoice.
Not only from her husband did Letitia learn how welcome she was
back to Weston. The days of her absence had passed like other
days, when people who prefer the town, and whose lives are formed
for that destination, are thrown together in the country. There were
means of enjoyment in abundance; but not of a kind to be
permanently relished by those before whom they lay. Letitia’s music
was wanted in the evenings; Letitia’s conversation, artless and
sprightly as a girl’s, rich as a matured woman’s, and entertaining
enough to suit everybody, was sighed for at table, and when it
rained, and especially when the ladies were called upon to amuse
each other in the absence of the gentlemen. It was only on rare
occasions, however, that she relinquished her privilege of reserving
several hours of the morning for herself and her husband. On one
desperately rainy day, she was found ready for chess or music
before dinner; and at another time, when all the gentlemen were
absent for the whole day at a political meeting in the neighbouring
city, she did not leave her guests at all. But these occasions were
rare. On the last-mentioned one, she had some view to her own
interest as well as that of her guests. Lord F—— meant to speak at
the meeting; his speech must, from his office, be one of the most
important of the day; and he was doubtful both how he should acquit
himself, and how that which he had to say would be received. Letitia
was, of course, far from being at ease, and was glad to conceal, and
to carry off some of her anxiety at the same time by being “on
hospitable thoughts intent.” It was the last day of the last of her
visiters; the gentlemen having waited only for this meeting. Their
carriages were ordered for the next morning, and they did not return
till late at night.
They were nearly as eloquent in describing the effect of lord F
——’s speech, as, by their account, had been the speech itself.—
One swore by his soul that it was the most good-natured sort of thing
he had ever heard in his life: another, that the government and the
government candidate ought to feel themselves much obliged to him;
another, that lord F——’s constituents would be more proud of him
than ever; another, an M.P., a representative of the commercial
interest, that lord F—— had enlightened the people not a little on the
question when low profits were harmless, and when bad things, and
why; and all, with the earl among them, that this day might prove the
beginning of a new era in lord F——’s public life. He would now have
as potent a voice out of the house as his friends had ever hoped he
would in time have in it.
“How happens all this, Henry?” asked Letitia, aside, with a glowing
smile. “You gave me no expectation of anything like this.”
“Because I had none myself. The charm lay in the burden which I
adopted from our neighbours down in the village;—‘for each and for
all.’”
“I see; I understand. Now leave the rest till you can give it me all in
order.”
It was accordingly given, all in order, when the last carriage had
driven off, the next morning, and Henry and Letitia shut themselves
into the library, to enjoy the uninterruptedness of the first fall of snow.
This was no day for the approach of deputations, for the visits of
clergyman, lawyer, lady callers, gentleman loungers, or even
petitioners from the village. The guests had been urged to stay for
finer weather; but, as peremptory in their plans as people of real
business, provided change of place is the object, they could on no
account delay an hour; and, to be sure, the snow signified little to
any but the postilions and the horses.
“Well, now, the speech, the speech!” cried Letitia.
“I told the people that nobody doubts that changes are wanted, in
order to remedy the evils so large a portion of society is justly
complaining of; and that the thing needed is a wider agreement as to
what those changes must be, and therefore a sounder and more
general knowledge of the causes of existing evils. I led them, as an
instance, into the consideration of the common complaint of low
profits and low wages, and showed them, I hope, that proportional
wages are much higher at present than some complainers suppose;
the fact being lost sight of from the enormous increase of those
among whom the wages-fund is divided. However little each labourer
may, from this cause, obtain for his own share, the division of
produce between capitalist and labourer,—that is, the proportion of
profits and wages, is more equable than is supposed by capitalists
who complain of their low profits, and labourers of their low wages.
Neither of them will gain by demanding a larger share of the other,
which neither can afford. They must look elsewhere for a remedy;
and I directed them where to look by giving them the example of
Holland and its commercial vicissitudes.”
“Rich to overflowing in the fifteenth century; since, well nigh
ruined. How was this? From too much capital leaving the country?”
“From the causes which led to such transfer of capital. While
Holland was accumulating its wealth, profits were first high, and then
gradually lowered in proportion to wages, though still increasing in
total amount. It was not till heavy taxation reduced the rate of profits
below that of other countries....”
“But does not taxation affect wages too?”
“Assuredly; but the labourer uses fewer commodities than the
capitalist, and therefore there is a limit to the labourer’s taxation,
beyond which taxes must fall on profits, and reduce them as
effectually as a deterioration of the land could do. Well; this being the
case in Holland, more than in the neighbouring countries, Dutch
capital flowed into those countries; and the Dutch have engaged
largely in the carrying trade, in foreign funds, and in loans to the
merchants of other countries, because all this capital could be less
advantageously employed at home. No country need or ought to
come to such a pass as this; for, where there is an economical
government, taxation may be a trifle compared with what it was in
Holland after the wars of the Republic; and where there is a liberal
commercial system,—that is, no unnecessary check upon the supply
of food, accumulation may proceed to an undefinable extent without
an injurious fall of wages and profits. Thus may the cultivation of
poor soils be rendered needless, the consequent rise of rent be
checked, and the fall of profits and wages obviated.”
“What we want then is, a regulation of the supply of the labour-
market, a lightening of taxation, and a liberal commercial system.
But, Henry, where is the eloquence of all this?—that which is
commonly called eloquence? It seems to me more like a lecture than
a speech.”
“And so it was; but these are days when, to the people, naked
truth is the best eloquence. They are sufferers; they look for a way
out of their sufferings; and the plainest way is to them the fairest.
However, I said to them much that there is no need to say to you,—
because you know it already,—of my views of what the spirit of
society ought to be, in contrast with what it is. I enlarged,—whether
eloquently I know not,—but I am sure fervently,—as fervently as ever
any advocate of co-operation spoke,—on the rule ‘for each and for
all;’ showing that there is actual co-operation wherever individual
interests are righteously pursued, since the general interest is made
up of individual interests. I showed that justice requires the individual
appropriation of the fruits of individual effort; that is, the maintenance
of the institution of property; and that producers do as much for all,
as well as for each, by carrying their produce to market themselves,
as by casting it into a common stock.”
“For instance, that A. does as great a public service by bringing a
hundred hats to exchange for tables and stockings, and whatever
else he may happen to want, as B. by letting the exchange be
conducted as an affair of partnership.”
“Yes. Let people have partnerships as large as they like, and make
savings thereby, if they find they can. But let them beware of the
notion that any competition but the struggle for food is the cause of
hardship; and that struggle must take place under both systems,
unless the same means are used by both to prevent it. As for the
question of time, the struggle will take place soonest under that
system which affords the least stimulus to productive industry. “And,
now, love, you have the pith of my speech, except of those best
parts which you have many a time rehearsed to me, and I to you. Of
the ‘hear, hears,’ and clappings, you learned enough last night.”
“I wish I could have been there,” sighed the wife.
“So do I. Well as you know the aspect of an attentive crowd, you
can have little idea of the stimulating excitement of political meetings
just now.”
“I can imagine it. The true romance of human life lies among the
poorer classes; the most rapid vicissitudes, the strongest passions,
the most undiluted emotions, the most eloquent deportment, the
truest experience are there. These things are marked on their
countenances, and displayed by their gestures; and yet these things
are almost untouched by our artists; be they dramatists, painters, or
novelists. The richest know best what is meant by the monotony of
existence, however little this may appear to their poor neighbours
who see them driving about as if life depended on their speed, and
traversing kingdoms and continents. Yet from the upper and middling
classes are the fine arts mainly furnished with their subjects. This is
wrong; for life in its reality cannot become known by hearsay; and by
hearsay only is there any notion of it among those who feel
themselves set above its struggles and its toils: that is, by the greater
part of the aristocracy.”
“Thank heaven! not by you or me,” replied her husband. “An
uninformed observer might think that there is monotony before us at
present, sitting as we are, watching the snow-flakes fall with the few
leaves which had lingered aloft till now,—with weeks of retirement in
prospect, and nothing apparent to wish or work for. Yet you have had
enough, love, of struggle and toil to know what real life is; and I
have, of late, begun to learn the same lesson. No fear of monotony
for us!”
“No fear; since there are all to live for as well as each, and each
other. But, Henry, how is it that there is so little made known where it
most wants to be known, of what real life is when trained by that best
of educations, vicissitude?”
“Because our painters of life do not take into the account,—in fact
know little of,—some of the most important circumstances which
constitute life, in the best sense of the word. They lay hold of the
great circumstances which happen to all, the landmarks of universal
human existence, and overlook those which are not less interesting,
though not universal. They take Love; and think it more becoming to
describe a Letitia going to the altar with a lord F——, than a weaver
and his thoughtful bride taking possession of their two rooms, after
long waiting and anxiety. They take Bereavement; and think it the
same thing whether they describe the manly grief of an Ormond for
his gallant Ossory, or the silent woe of a poverty-stricken widow for
her laborious and dutiful son. They take Birth; and would rather have
a lady F—— bending over the infant heir of a lordly house, with a
Thérèse in waiting ... (My dear, why not describe that which shall be
as well as that which has been?)—a lady F—— and her infant, I say,
than some rustic Mary holding up her boy to smile in father’s face
when he comes home from the plough. There is no harm in all this,
provided the mighty remainder is not overlooked, which is at the
bottom of the most portentous heavings of society,—which explains
all that is to many unaccountable in the doings of the world they live
in. If the aristocracy cannot, by their own experience, get to know all
that life is,—though they are born, love, marry, suffer, enjoy, and die,
let some idea be given them of it by true images held up in the mirror
of their studies.”
“Yes; let humble life be shown to them in all its strong and strange
varieties; not only in faithful butlers and housekeepers,—in pretty
dairy-maids and gossiping barbers. Let us have in books, in pictures,
and on the stage, working men and women, in the various periods of
their struggles through life. In the meanwhile, these people should in
fairness know that the aristocracy are less aware than is supposed,
—less than they will be,—of what is being done and suffered on
each side of their smooth and dull path.”
“Let the artists be compassionately considered too, I pray,” said
lord F——, smiling. “Granting all that can be urged about their
limiting their choice of objects, let us be considerate till they have
placed themselves at large. What, for instance, could a weaver of
fiction make of our present life?”
“Nothing of a story; only a picture; there being, as you said just
now, apparent monotony without, and deep stirrings within. Such a
writer, if wishing to make a narrative, must take either my former life,
—its perplexities, its poverty, its struggles under its first publicity, its
labours, its love, and migration into a new state;—or your future one,
—the statesman’s honourable toils, joined with the patriot’s conflicts
and consolations.”
“But if there was good reason for taking up precisely the interval,—
from our marriage till this hour;—what then?”
“Then writer and readers must be contented with little narrative;
contented to know what passes within us, since so little happens to
us. Would there be nothing to instruct and gratify in pictures of our
position, in revelations of our hearts, and records of our
conversations?”
“Let us comfort ourselves, Letitia, with deciding that it must be the
fault of the recorder if there were not.”
Summary of Principles illustrated in this volume.
The produce of labour and capital, after rent has been paid, is
divided between the labourer and the capitalist, under the names of
Wages and Profits.
Where there are two shares, each determines the other, provided
they press equally upon one another.
The increase of the supply of labour, claiming reward, makes the
pressure in the present case unequal, and renders wages the
regulator of profits.
The restriction of the supply of food causes the fall of both profits
and wages.
The increased expense of raising food enhances its price: labour,
both agricultural and manufacturing, becomes dearer, (without
advantage to the labourer:) this rise of wages causes profits to fall;
and this fall brings after it a reduction of the labourer’s share, or a fall
of wages.
The fall of profits and wages is thus referrible to the same cause
which raises rent;—to an inequality in the fertility of soils.
A Tale.
BY
HARRIET MARTINEAU.
LONDON:
CHARLES FOX, 67, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1833.
CONTENTS.
Chapter I.
VINE-GROWING.