documentation. 1  the use of documentary evidence. 2  a furnishing with documents, as to substantiate a claim or the data in a book or article. 3  Computers.
1 Regular depreciation: Most business equipment is depreciable under MACRS depreciation (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System-pronounced MAKERS). 2  MACRS includes an accelerated method, which produces higher deductions in the early years of the property's recovery period than the MACRS straight-line method.
Depreciation recapture is the USA Internal Revenue Service (IRS) procedure for collecting income tax on a gain realized by a taxpayer when the taxpayer disposes of an asset that had previously provided an offset to ordinary income for the taxpayer through depreciation.