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Accelerated Cost Recovery System

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Accelerated Cost Recovery System


: a method of calculating depreciation introduced in the Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981 that results in faster recovery of costs for property put into service after 1980 by assigning it a shorter useful life than that previously allowed by the tax code




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