RP-2015-56: Improvements to be expensed or capitalized

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Issue Number: RP-2015-56

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Revenue Procedure 2015-56 provides certain taxpayers engaged in the trade or business of operating a retail establishment or a restaurant with a safe harbor method of accounting for determining whether expenditures paid or incurred to remodel or refresh a qualified building (as defined in section 4.02) are deductible under § 162(a) of the Internal Revenue Code (Code), must be capitalized as improvements under § 263(a), or must be capitalized as the costs of property produced by the taxpayer for use in its trade or business under § 263A. This revenue procedure also provides procedures for obtaining automatic consent to change to the safe harbor method of accounting permitted by this revenue procedure.

Revenue Procedure 2015-56 will be in IRB 2015-49, dated December 7, 2015.

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