Meg o’brien received a gift of some small-scale jewelry manufacturing equipment that her father had used for personal purposes for many years. her father originally purchased the equipment for $1,500. because the equipment is out of production and no longer available, the property is currently worth $4,000. meg has decided to begin a new jewelry manufacturing trade or business. what is her depreciable basis for depreciating the equipment?

David paid $975,000 for two beachfront lots in coastal south carolina, with the intention of building residential homes on each. two years later, the south carolina legislature passed the beachfront management act, barring any further development of the coast, including david's lots. when david files a complaint to seek compensation for his property, south carolina refuses, pointing to a passage in david's own complaint that states "the beachfront management act [was] properly and validly designed to south carolina's " is south carolina required to compensate david under the takings clause?