How to determine building value of a short sale property for dep

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I bought a house 190K. The town tax assement 250K(land:110K and the building 142K)

How to determine the building value for depreciation in tax return?

Can I use the ratio of the town tax assement to calculate the building value? 142/250x190=107K

Thanks