Attorney’s fees to produce taxable income are deductible. Since part of the disability payments is included in gross income, part of the attorney’s fees is deductible. However, you treat them as a miscellaneous itemized deduction, which means:
You’ll have to run the numbers to see whether you actually get any tax benefit from deducting attorney’s fees.
Depreciation methods that allow faster write-offs than straight-line rates in the earlier periods of the useful life of an asset. For example, in the first few years of recovery, MACRS allows a 200% double declining balance write-off, twice the straight-line rate.