Key legal question
Whether depreciation on practice fit-out costs in a privately used property used for a self-employed physiotherapy practice is deductible.
Extracted holding
No. Because the building is entirely allocated to private assets under the predominance method, investments made into it cannot be activated or depreciated.
Extracted reasoning
The property’s private use predominates, so it belongs entirely to private assets. Private assets are not depreciable. The fact that the costs were incurred specifically for the practice does not change their nature when they were spent on the building itself rather than on separable business equipment.