Expenditure on maintaining an existing asset, without creating new benefits, qualifies as allowable current repairs for taxes.
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....When an expenditure was incurred to preserve and maintain already existing asset and such expenditure is not bringing any new asset into existence or obtaining new advantage such expenditure is allowable as current repairs. - AT....
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