15-Year Recovery For Leasehold/Retail Improvements, Restaurant Property

15-Year Recovery For Leasehold/Retail Improvements, Restaurant Property

ATRA extended through 2013 the 15-year recovery period for qualified leasehold improvements, qualified retail improvements and qualified restaurant property. To qualify for this accelerated recovery period, the qualifying property must be placed in service before January 1, 2014.

Qualified restaurant property is any Code Sec. 1250 property that is a building or an improvement to a building. More than 50 percent of the building’s square footage must be devoted to preparation of meals and seating for on-premise consumption of prepared meals.

Qualified leasehold improvement property is any improvement made by the lessor or lessee under or pursuant to the terms of a lease to an interior part of a building that is nonresidential real property that is more than three years old.

Qualified retail improvement property is any improvement to an interior portion of nonresidential real property that has been in service for more than three years. The improved interior portion must be open to the general public and used in the retail trade or business of selling tangible personal property.

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