Installation of a fifth wheel and the Six-Month Rule

December 27, 2019
Rose-Michele Nardi
Baker & Miller PLLC
A customer asked us to install a fifth wheel on a taxable truck chassis the company just purchased. Would our installation trigger tax under Internal Revenue Code (IRC) 4051?
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