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.
Low Vitamin D levels are caused by two very different reasons. Low vitamin D is common in people without any other health problems, but low vitamin D can also be caused by a parathyroid tumor. The connection between parathyroid disease and low Vitamin D can be confusing, even for many doctors. Parathyroid tumors cause low Vitamin D, not the other way around.