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General Depreciation System

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Definition of General Depreciation System:

The most common way of calculating deprecation under the MACRS method. Residential and nonresidential real property are depreciated over 27.5 and 39 years, respectively, using the straight-line method and personal property is depreciated using the declining-balance method at first and then switching to straight-line when that yields a larger deduction.