Section 179
Section 179


Section 179 of the IRS tax code allows businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and/or software purchased or financed during the tax year. That means if you buy (or lease) a piece of qualifying equipment, you can deduct the ENTIRE PURCHASE PRICE from your gross income. This incentive created by the US government encourages businesses to buy equipment and invest in themselves.

Section 179


All businesses that purchase, finance, and/or lease less than $4,270,000 in new or used business equipment during tax year 2025 should qualify for the Section 179 deduction. Also, to qualify for the Section 179 deduction, the equipment purchased or financed must be placed into service between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025.

Section 179


When your business buys certain equipment items, it typically gets to write them off incrementally through depreciation. In other words, if your company spends $50,000 on a machine, it could write off about $10,000 a year for five years. Section 179 allows business owners to write off the entire equipment purchase price for the year they buy it.

Section 179


Section 179 does have its limits—there are caps on the total amount written off ($1,220,000 for 2025) and caps on the total amount of the equipment purchased ($3,050,000 in 2025). The deduction begins to phase out dollar for dollar after a given business reaches the cap, making it a true small- and medium-sized business deduction.1

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[1] You can only elect to expense $28,900/$30,500 of the cost of any heavy sport utility vehicle (SUV) and certain other vehicles placed in service in tax years beginning in 2024/2025, respectively. This rule applies to any 4-wheeled vehicle primarily designed or used to carry passengers over public streets, roads, or highways and is rated from 6,000-14,000 pounds gross vehicle weight. However, it does not apply to any vehicle that (a) is designed to seat more than nine passengers behind the driver's seat, (b) comes equipped with a cargo area (open or enclosed by a cap) of at least 6 feet in interior length that is not readily accessible from the passenger compartment, (c) has an integral enclosure fully enclosing the driver compartment and load-carrying device, or (d) does not have seating rearward of the driver's seat and has no body section protruding more than 30 inches ahead of the leading edge of the windshield. Not complete info. Please consult a tax professional with any questions and for full details.