Certainty used to be defined as death and taxes. Now that definition takes on a whole new meaning. According to a study, car accidents increase on the tax filing deadline by about 6%. This translates into about 13 extra deaths!
What to do: Exercise special caution when driving on April 17th, the filing deadline in 2012. Also, you can stay home and avoid the post office by e-filing your return.
Depreciation methods that allow faster write-offs than straight-line rates in the earlier periods of the useful life of an asset. For example, in the first few years of recovery, MACRS allows a 200% double declining balance write-off, twice the straight-line rate.