Sherry Miller, ARNP is a medicare enrolled Nurse Practitioner - Family in Mason City, Iowa. She graduated from nursing school in 2015 and has 3 years of diverse experience with area of expertise as Nurse Practitioner.
Major repairs to production equipment should be capitalized. The repair to the asset will extend the useful life of the piece of equipment, which is an allowable reason to capitalize an expense. Companies should be careful, however, to not capitalize the maintenance cost of a piece of equipment.
For tax purposes, the difference between a ârepairâ and an âimprovementâ is more than just semantics. Generally speaking, the cost of an improvement to business property must be capitalized and written off over a period of years. In contrast, if you simply repair a business asset, you may currently deduct the entire cost.