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You begin to depreciate your property when you place it in service for use in your trade or business or for the production of income. You stop depreciating property either when you have fully recovered your cost or other basis or when you retire it from service, whichever happens first.
Landscaping is said not to have a useful life of its own, so itâs not depreciated as a land improvement. How do you deduct landscaping? Landscaping that is immediately adjacent to your home and would be destroyed if the home were moved or replaced. You must depreciate such expenses as part of your home over 39 years. If you installed it in the first year you began your business, add its cost to the purchase price of your home. If you installed it after you began your business, depreciate it separately as a home improvement over 39 years. Landscaping that is installed away from your home and would not be harmed if the home were moved or replaced. You canât depreciate these expenses at all, since land cannot be depreciated.