You can make your own: To make buttermilk, use 1 cup milk and 1 tablespoon lemon juice or white vinegar. Allow it to sit for a few minutes. If you do purchase buttermilk and have extra, freeze it in 1 cup containers or in Ziplock bags. You can also purchase powdered buttermilk in grocery stores.
Straight-line depreciation allows an equal portion of the laptop's cost to be claimed in each year over the total depreciation period. If the cost of the computer was $1,000, for example, then $200 a year can be included in the company's total depreciation amount each year for five years.
The time period you have to depreciate a carpet in a rental depends on whether it is classified as personal property or part of the building structure. If the carpet is tacked down, it is classified as personal property and is depreciated over five years.But if the carpet in a residential rental property is glued down, it is considered to be part of the building structure and must be depreciated over a whopping 27.5 years.mong these are the cost of improvements and repairs to the space you rent out. Repairs are currently deductible--that is, the entire cost can be deducted in a single year. On the other hand, improvements must be depreciated--that is, deducted a portion at a time over several years.