What Can You Depreciate? A Complete Guide for Small Business Owners

Complete guide to understanding what business assets can be depreciated for tax purposes - machinery, vehicles, buildings, and more.

Published: November 4, 2025

What Can You Depreciate?

A Complete Guide to Depreciable Assets for Small Business Owners


Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.



Judge Learned Hand
Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals
for the Second Circuit
Gregory v. Helvering, 69 F



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