IRS Regs Create Both Compliance Challenges and Tax Saving Opportunities. The IRS has issued new guidance that will have a significant impact on how hotel and restaurant owners capitalize and depreciate assets placed into service. Effective for tax years beginning January 1, 2014, new tangible property regulations regulate the treatment of normal repairs and maintenance versus an improvement to an asset.
Causes of Calcification. Calcification of soft tissue appears to be the method by which the body repairs an internal wound. Calcification usually forms in tissues that have been exposed to injury, surgery, radiation, infection or cysts. The Linus Pauling Institute states that vitamin D toxicity causes an increase in serum calcium levels, which, over time, may lead to calcification of the heart and kidneys.
Vitamin D is unique among vitamins; you can synthesize it in your skin as well as absorb it from foods or supplements. To complicate things further, vitamin D also comes in two forms: D2 and D3. Your skin synthesizes vitamin D3, also called cholecalciferol; you can also take D3 in supplement form.hoosing D2 or D3. Getting either vitamin D2 and D3 from supplements, sunlight exposure or foods will raise your 25(OH)D level. Some researchers believe that your body absorbs D3 more efficiently.