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Unlock greater financial flexibility for your business with the Section 179 deduction. A part of the IRS tax code, Section 179 empowers businesses to deduct the full purchase price of qualifying equipment and software in the same tax year they're put into service. Instead of stretching depreciation across several years, you can claim the entire cost upfront-dramatically improving your cash flow and creating immediate tax benefits.
This deduction is good on new and used equipment, as well as off-the-shelf software. To take the deduction for tax year 2025, the equipment must be financed or purchased and put into service between January 1, 2025 and the end of the day on December 31, 2025.
This is the maximum amount that can be spent on equipment before the Section 179 Deduction available to your company begins to be reduced on a dollar for dollar basis. This spending cap makes Section 179 a true "small business tax incentive" (because larger businesses that spend more than $4,380,000 on equipment won't get the deduction.)
Bonus Depreciation is generally taken after the Section 179 Spending Cap is reached. The Bonus Depreciation is available for both new and used equipment.
The above is an overall, "birds-eye" view of the Section 179 Deduction for 2025. For more details on limits and qualifying equipment, as well as Section 179 Qualified Financing, please read this entire website carefully. We will also make sure to update this page if the limits change.
In years past, when your business bought qualifying equipment, it typically wrote it off a little at a time through depreciation. In other words, if your company spends $50,000 on a machine, it gets to write off (say) $10,000 a year for five years (these numbers are only meant to give you an example).
Now, while it's true that this is better than no write-off at all, most business owners would really prefer to write off the entire equipment purchase price for the year they buy it.
And that's exactly what Section 179 does - it allows your business to write off the entire purchase price of qualifying equipment for the current tax year.
This has made a big difference for many companies (and the economy in general.) Businesses have used Section 179 to purchase needed equipment right now, instead of waiting. For most small businesses, the entire cost of qualifying equipment can be written-off on the 2025 tax return (up to $2,500,000).
Here is an updated example of Section 179 at work during the 2025 tax year.
Most people think the Section 179 deduction is some mysterious or complicated tax code. It really isn't, as you will see below.
Essentially, 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 that if you buy (or lease) a piece of qualifying equipment, you can deduct the FULL PURCHASE PRICE from your gross income. It's an incentive created by the U.S. government to encourage businesses to buy equipment and invest in themselves.
Several years ago, Section 179 was often referred to as the "SUV Tax Loophole" or the "Hummer Deduction" because many businesses have used this tax code to write-off the purchase of qualifying vehicles at the time (like SUV's and Hummers). But that particular benefit of Section 179 has been severely reduced in recent years (see 'Vehicles & Section 179' for current limits on business vehicles.)
However, despite the SUV deduction lessened, Section 179 is more beneficial to small businesses than ever. Today, Section 179 is one of the few government incentives available to small businesses, and has been included in many of the recent Stimulus Acts and Congressional Tax Bills. Although large businesses also benefit from Section 179 or Bonus Depreciation, the original target of this legislation was much needed tax relief for small businesses - and millions of small businesses are actually taking action and getting real benefits.
Bonus depreciation is offered some years, and some years it isn't. Right now in 2025, it's being offered at 100%.
The most important difference is both new and used equipment qualify for the Section 179 Deduction (as long as the used equipment is "new to you"), while Bonus Depreciation has only covered new equipment only until the most recent tax law passed. In a switch from recent years, the bonus depreciation now includes used equipment.
Bonus Depreciation is useful to very large businesses spending more than the Section 179 Spending Cap (currently $2,500,000) on new capital equipment. Also, businesses with a net loss are still qualified to deduct some of the cost of new equipment and carry-forward the loss.
When applying these provisions, Section 179 is generally taken first, followed by Bonus Depreciation - unless the business had no taxable profit, because the unprofitable business is allowed to carry the loss forward to future years.
Section 179 does come with limits - there are caps to the total amount written off ($2,500,000 for 2025 ), and limits to the total amount of the equipment purchased ($4,000,000 in 2025 ). The deduction begins to phase out on a dollar-for-dollar basis after this limit is reached by a given business (thus, the entire deduction goes away once $4,380,000 in purchases is reached), so this makes it a true small and medium-sized business deduction.
All businesses that purchase, finance, and/or lease new or used business equipment during tax year 2025 should qualify for the Section 179 Deduction (assuming they spend less than $4,380,000).
Most tangible goods used by American businesses, including "off-the-shelf" software and business-use vehicles (restrictions apply) qualify for the Section 179 Deduction.
For basic guidelines on what property is covered under the Section 179 tax code, please refer to list of Section 179 Qualifying Equipment. Also, to qualify for the Section 179 Deduction, the equipment and/or software purchased or financed must be placed into service between January 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025.
For 2025, $2,500,000 of assets can be expensed; that amount phases out dollar for dollar when $6,500,000 of qualified assets are placed in service.
The equipment, vehicle(s), and/or software must be used for business purposes more than 50% of the time to qualify for the Section 179 Deduction. Simply multiply the cost of the equipment, vehicle(s), and/or software by the percentage of business-use to arrive at the monetary amount eligible for Section 179.
Please see https://www.section179.org/section_179_deduction/ for more information.
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1708 Lubbock Rd
Brownfield, TX 79316