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Karane Enterprises, a calendar-year manufacturer based in College Station, Texas, began business in 2017. In the process of setting up the business, Karane has acquired various types of assets. Below is a list of assets acquired during 2017:

Asset	Cost		Date Placed in Service
Office furniture	$	150,000	02/03/2017
Machinery		1,560,000	07/22/2017
Used delivery truck*		40,000	08/17/2017

*Not considered a luxury automobile.

During 2017, Karane was very successful (and had no 179 limitations) and decided to acquire more assets this next year to increase its production capacity. These are the assets acquired during 2018:

Asset	Cost		Date Placed in Service
Computers & info. system	$	400,000	03/31/2018
Luxury auto		80,000	05/26/2018
Assembly equipment		1,200,000	08/15/2018
Storage building		700,000	11/13/2018

Used 100% for business purposes.

Karane generated taxable income in 2018 of $1,732,500 for purposes of computing the 179 expense. (Use MACRS Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, Table 5, and Exhibit 10-10.) Assume the 2017 179 limits are the same as those in 2018. (Leave no answer blank. Enter zero if applicable. Input all the values as positive numbers.)

Compute the maximum 2018 depreciation deductions including 179 expense, but now assume that Karane would like to take bonus depreciation.

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