When an asset cannot be split

Find out why the split screen is refusing an asset, and what to do about it.

Dashboard → open the return → Assets tab → open the asset → Split asset

The Dispose screen shows the same refusal on its Dispose part of this asset button. See Dispose part of an asset.

Some assets are blocked from splitting. DepreciationPro names the reason on screen rather than hiding the option.

In the asset page header, the Split asset button is greyed and its tooltip carries the first reason. The button still works.

Clicking it opens the split screen with an amber panel headed This asset can't be split, listing every reason that applies instead of the split form. An asset can trip more than one.

The asset is already disposed. Disposed assets cannot be split.

The asset is construction in progress. A CIP asset accumulates cost at the cost-line level, so DepreciationPro directs you to divide the cost lines instead of the summary record.

The asset is a vehicle or listed property. Splitting is blocked because §280F limits apply per asset, so two records would carry two limits. DepreciationPro treats an asset as a vehicle or listed property when it has a gross vehicle weight, a VIN, or a business-use percentage below 100.

The asset has no placed-in-service date. Resolve the import issue that left it blank, then split.

The asset has an active annotation suppressing depreciation. A non-depreciating or unresolved-import-issue annotation that is active in the current tax year blocks the split. Resolve the annotation first.

A fully depreciated asset can be split. Its figures allocate the same way any other asset's do.

Dispose part of this asset is built on the same split step, so it uses the same eligibility rules. When an asset is blocked, the disposal page says partial disposal is not available and lists the same reasons. Full disposal is still offered.

A vehicle is the case that catches people out: it can be disposed of in full, but never partially.

See Splitting an asset, or disposing of part of it.