On Dec. 23, 2011, the Treasury Department issued the most comprehensive changes to the capitalization regulations in 20 years, withdrawing the 2008 proposed regulations on capitalization of tangible assets—the so-called “repair regs”—and proposing, for a third time in nearly five and a half years, new regulations designed to reduce uncertainty and controversy regarding section 263(a). The new rul…es in the...

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