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Monday 25 February 2013

All you should know about the new repair vs. capitalization regulations

If you have spent $500,000 or more on renovations, you should seriously develop a thorough understanding of the new repair vs. capitalization regulations. In fact, you should approach a firm at the earliest for a formal study because there are chances that you’d actually be able to benefit. Meanwhile, one more thing that you should keep in mind is that you must incurred the expenditure in the last 15 years and only then you’d be the ideal candidate. Furthermore, as a taxpayer, if you have acquired, renovated or improved real estate, even then you can contemplate benefiting from the regulations.

Nevertheless, given below are some more things that you should be aware of when it comes to the repair vs capitalization regulations:

•First things first; these regulations are applicable to businesses in every industry that has anything do with the acquisition, production, replacement, or improvement of tangible property.

•Secondly, the new regulations, i.e. the ones that came into force in December 2011 can result in significant benefits if you approach a firm and ask them to perform a cost aggregation study. That’s because the regulations more or less affect real property and therefore a study can be of great help for obvious reasons.

•Thirdly, the regulations have brought some significant changes. For instance, now several subjective factors are considered so as to decide whether the building expenditure falls under the category of improvement or it’s a repair expense. Interestingly, if you get in touch with a firm, their engineers are going to help you in determining if it’s suitable for you to expense windows, pluming and other such things. Just so you know, they would be taking your unique situation into consideration.

So, you are advised to get in touch with the firm as soon as possible because in addition to everything else, they would also be able to determine if there is an opportunity for you.

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