my better half is a tax specialist lawyer, and she maintains that the depreciation rates allowed by the IRD are very close to real life.
The rate for compters is 33% DV (diminishing value), ie: pay $3,000.00 after one year take off 33% and its residual value is: $2,000.00 (give or take a dollar) after two years the firther depreciation is $660 (ie 33% of 2,000), and its residual value is $1,340.00 Of course, as Derek is pointing out, laptops may in fact depreciate at a greater rate, because of their "special" features. (Actually i just checked the ird site, lappies have a 40% DV rate, so Derek is not far off agreeing with the IRD). On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 12:06:35 +1300 (NZDT) Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > as a rule of thumb, you can say a laptop devalues by 50% in a year. > > However, given that some laptops do a lot of travelling, they die after a > year (100% devaluation, disk dead, keyboard dead). > > Although, I have a laptop here that is 3 years old. In my view, it is > almost worthless. Too small, too slow, and hard to use. > > Derek. > > On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Carl Cerecke wrote: > > > I would be grateful if anyone could point me to a year-old laptop > > pricelist in $NZ. > > > > Cheers, > > Carl. > > > > > > > > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from > me, it has > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone > else's machine > ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when > (apparently) receiving a > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me...... > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
