Problem 8-9 Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) (LO 8.2) Calculate the following: Click here to access the various depreciation tables. If required, round your final answers to the nearest dollar. If your answer is zero, enter "0". a. The first year of depreciation on a office building that cost $250,000 purchased June 2, 2022. $ 50,000 X Feedback ) Check My Work Depreciation is the accounting process of allocating and deducting the cost of an asset over a period of years. MACRS allows taxpayers who invest in capital assets to write off an asset's cost over a period designated in the tax law and to use an accelerated method for depreciation of certain assets. Under MACRS, taxpayers calculate the depreciation of an asset using a table which contains a percentage rate for each year of the property's recovery period. The yearly rate is applied to the cost of the asset. The cost of the property to which the rate is applied is not reduced for prior years' depreciation. The minimum number of years over which the cost of an asset may be deducted (the recovery period) depends on the type of the property and the year in which the property was acquired. The bonus depreciation rules allow taxpayers purchasing property with a MACRS recovery period of 20 years or less, computer software, and certain leasehold improvements to directly write off a statutory percent of the cost of the assets in the year placed in service. The second year (2023) of depreciation on a computer that cost $5.000 purchased in May 2022 using the half-year convention and accelerated depreciation.