California Personal Property Tax

The UltraTax / California Personal Property Tax application supports 1040, 1041, 1065, 1120, 1120S, and 990 entities. It prepares property tax statements from depreciation data entered in the Asset Detail window.

California forms and schedules (non-submittable, transcription required)

  • Form 571-L - Business Property Statement
  • Form 571-F - Agricultural Property Statement
  • Form 571-A - Agricultural Property Statement
  • Form 571-D - Supplemental Schedule for Reporting Monthly Acquisitions and Disposals of Property Reported on Schedule B of the Business Property Statement
  • Schedule A (571-L) - Cost Detail: Equipment
  • Schedule A (571-A & 571-F) - Supplies
  • Schedule B (571-L) - Cost Detail: Buildings, Building Improvements and/or Leasehold Improvements, Land Improvements, Land and Land Development
  • Schedule B (571-A & 571-F) - Animals
  • Schedule C (571-F) - Fixed Machinery and Equipment
  • Schedule C (571-A) - Cost Detail: Equipment
  • Schedule D (571-F) - Moveable Farm Equipment
  • Schedule D (571-A) - Moveable Farm Equipment and Harvesters
  • Form 571-LA - Alternate Schedule A

Depreciation treatments required for all CA PPT asset

You need to enter the Book or CA treatment for California Personal Property Tax returns. By default, the Book treatment transfers to the return. However, the CA treatment will transfer to the return if you mark the
Complete return using the CA treatment within the Asset module
checkbox is marked on the Gen screen in the General folder for UltraTax / California Personal Property Tax.

Associations required for all CA PPT assets

  • Situs:
    Each asset needs to have
    California
    selected as the
    Situs
    to transfer to the California Personal Property Tax return.
  • Location:
    Enter the street address of the company where the assets are located. A property tax return is created for each location entered. This information transfers to the Form 571-L or the 571-F
    Property Location Street Address
    . The property type (
    PPT type - CA
    ) determines which form is applicable. The maximum number of characters that transfer is 35.
  • County - CA:
    Select the county that the asset is located in from the dropdown list.
  • PPT type - CA:
    Select the personal property type for the asset from the dropdown list. Assets with property types that are preceded by "Farm" transfer to the Agricultural Property Statement. All other property types transfer to the Business Property Statement. The property types and the forms they transfer to are in the following table.
    Property Type
    Form
    A1 - Machinery & equipment
    Form 571-L, Sch A, Section 1
    A2 - Office furniture & equipment
    Form 571-L, Sch A, Section 2
    A3 - Other equipment
    Form 571-L, Sch A, Section 3
    A4 - Tools, molds, dies, jigs
    Form 571-L, Sch A, Section 4
    A5a - Personal computers
    Form 571-L, Sch A, Section 5a
    A5b - LAN equipment & mainframes
    Form 571-L, Sch A, Section 5b
    B1 - Bldings/Leasehld imp(structure)
    Form 571-L, Sch B, Section 1*
    B2 - Bldings/Leasehld imp(fixtures)
    Form 571-L, Sch B, Section 2*
    B1 - Land improvements
    Form 571-L, Sch B, Section 3
    B1 - Land and land development
    Form 571-L, Sch B, Section 4
    Farm - Animals
    Forms 571-F and 571-A, Sch A
    Farm - Bldings/Lease imp(fixtures)
    Form 571-A, Sch E, Column B**
    Farm - Bldings/Lease imp(structure)
    Form 571-A, Sch E, Column A**
    Farm - Fixed machinery/equipment
    Forms 571-F and 571-A, Sch C
    Farm - Harvesters
    Form 571-A, Sch D, Column C or D
    Farm - LAN equipment & mainframes
    Form 571-A, Sch C
    Farm - Land and land development
    Form 571-A, Sch E, Column C or D**
    Farm - Land Improvements
    Form 571-A, Sch E, Column C or D**
    Farm - Movable farm equipment
    Forms 571-F and 571-A, Sch D
    Farm - Office furniture/equipment
    Form 571-F Sch E and 571-A Sch C
    Farm - Other equipment
    Form 571-A Sch C
    Farm - Personal computers
    Form 571-A, Sch C
    *Current-year acquisitions and disposals also transfer to Form 571-D.
    **Current-year acquisitions and disposals also transfer to Part 3 of Forms 571-F and 571-A.

Associations required for the Agricultural Property Statement

  • Location ID#:
    Used for Forms 571-F and 571-A. Enter the Parcel number for the Real Property Alterations section of the Agricultural Property Statement. The Parcel number transfers to
    Improvements Added or Removed
      when you use the
    Farm - Bldings/Lease Imp(fixtures)
    or
    Farm - Bldings/Lease Imp(structures)
    property types. The Parcel number transfers to the
    Parcel
    for Changes in Land Surface when you use the
    Farm - Land and land development
    or
    Farm - Land Improvements
    property types. The maximum number of characters that transfer is 12.
  • Year built:
    Used for Form 571-F only. Enter information here when you use the
    Farm - Fixed machinery/equipment
    or
    Farm - Movable farm equipment
    property type. The maximum number of characters that transfer is 4.
  • Quantity:
    Used for Forms 571-F and 571-A. Enter information here when you use the
    Farm - Animals
    property type to transfer the information to the
    Number
    field. Also use this field when you use the
    Farm - Land and land development
    or
    Farm - Land Improvements
    property types to transfer the information to the
    Acres
    field for Changes in Land Surface.
  • Equip - Model:
    Used for Form 571-F only. Enter information here when you use the
    Farm - Fixed machinery/equipment
    or
    Farm - Movable farm equipment
    property types. The maximum number of characters that transfer is 15.
  • Equip - Make/mfr:
    Used for Form 571-F only. Enter information here when you use the
    Farm - Fixed machinery/equipment
    or
    Farm - Movable farm equipment
    property types. The maximum number of characters that transfer is 15.
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