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On January 1, 2021, Harrington, Inc. signed a 10-year noncancelable lease for a heavy duty drill press from Jones Equipment Inc. The lease stipulated annual payments of $260,000 starting at the beginning of the first year, with title passing to Harrington at the expiration of the lease. Harrington treated this transaction as a finance lease. The drill press has an estimated useful life of 15 years, with no salvage value. Harrington uses straight-line amortization for all of its plant assets. Aggregate lease payments were determined to have a present value of $1,668,591, based on implicit interest of 9%. In its 2021 income statement, what amount of amortization expense should Harrington report from this lease transaction