Year-end time does bring some “look back” thoughts. Picture your potential client thinking “what did I intend to do this year?”. Most of us procrastinate and don’t meet our own goals. Engage them to let them make a big move at the end of the year. Catch them trying to knock off as many to-dos as possible, including acquiring a better domain name.
So it looks like if you place in service a domain name in December 2019, you receive some tax benefit in 2019, and full year of depreciation in 2020. If you bought a capital asset domain name in January 2020, you would receive only a partial deduction for 2020.
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