Leasing equipment is where a party agrees to rent its owned equipment to another party and enters into a bidding contract. The tax advantages of leasing equipment is far reaching. The contract guarantees the tenant or lessee, use of the leased equipment and guarantees the owner or lessor, regular payments from the lessee for a given time as agreed in the contract. Both parties face consequences if they fail to abide by the contract. Leasing equipment warranties great tax advantages over real ownership.
Tax saving
Equipment leasing presents your business with some fantastic tax benefits. The Internal Revenue Service will allow all the amount used in rental equipment in your business to be fully deductible as an operating expense. Certain leasing of equipment will guarantee even greater tax advantages. However, the Internal Revenue Service can deny you your rental deduction on leased equipment if it finds in its investigation that your contract is not valid and in reality, it is a conditional or an installment for sale. If the IRS re-characterizes your lease as a sale, it will entitle you to depreciation deductions as the owner of the equipment for tax purposes instead of you getting a rental deduction.
Leasing equipment in business will also guarantee you of always having updated equipment, depending on the type of business you operate in thus helping you stay on top with the current technology and advance in equipment. Acquisition of goods through leasing will call for no tax payment on the new equipment to the government.
Tax efficiency
Your overall tax bill may be reduced through leasing equipment in your business, as the leasing cost is deducted as a business expense thus reducing the net cost of leasing the equipment. This factor helps you in determining whether to lease or rent equipment, rather than buying. If you decide to buy equipment like a printer or a copier, you will be in a position to claim 40% of its purchase price against tax in the first year after purchase, and after that claim 25% of the showing outstanding balance. Thus when you will not need to pay the cost of the printer or copier you are leasing immediately, and you may claim on everything that you pay out either monthly, quarterly or annually.
Tax benefit on leasing healthcare equipment
With the IRS not considering certain leases to be a purchase, rather a tax-deductible overhead expense, medical practices can deduct the lease payment from incomes, thus reducing the net cost of the lease. Leasing companies can pass ownership on to the healthcare facility in the form of lower monthly payments.