Suitable for use - Determinations for dump bodies

June 2, 2005

Rose-Michele Nardi

Weiner Brodsky Sidman Kider PC

We sell dump truck bodies at retail. Is it true that the Internal Revenue Service recently issued new guidelines governing the taxability of these bodies?

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