Further manufacture: Shortening wheelbases

March 1, 1997

Mark Sidman

Attorney

In our distributorship, we often shorten a chassis at the request of a customer. Sometimes we change the wheelbase as a result of the shortening, and sometimes we don’t. Has the Internal Revenue Service issued rules concerning when shortening a chassis triggers the imposition of FET?

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