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Old 12-10-2005, 08:23 PM  
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Originally Posted by zagi
Its because of accounting law, if you acquire an asset you can't expense it fully, you have to depreciate it over its usable life. Hence they are trying to avoid long term tax commitments and since they have a lot of money to spend they don't mind paying it.

idiot - maximum tax rate is about 50%

$3000 total cost is more than 150% of the cost of the TV. pay the tax
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