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Costs that directly benefit the construction/production activity or are incurred during that activity. Examples include quality control costs, supervision salaries, depreciation, and insurance policies. Service costs.

Section 263A generally requires the capitalization of the direct costs and an allocable portion of the indirect costs that directly benefit or are incurred by reason of the production of this property.

Section 263A generally requires taxpayers that are producing real or tangible personal property to capitalize direct material costs, direct labor costs, and indirect costs that are properly allocable to the produced property.

The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) added a provision exempting small business taxpayers from the capitalization rules under section 263A. A taxpayer, other than a tax shelter, qualifies as a small business taxpayer by satisfying the gross receipts test for the taxable year.

As previously discussed, The TCJA amended IRC Section 263A to add a new general exception for small businesses (excluding tax shelters) meeting the gross-receipts test under IRC Section 448(c), which exempts those taxpayers from applying the rules of IRC Section 263A to inventory and self-constructed assets (including ...

Under IRC 263A, taxpayers must capitalize their direct costs and an allocable share of their indirect costs to property they produce. To determine these capitalizable costs, taxpayers must allocate or apportion costs to various activities, including production activities.