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The new law permanently provides full expensing, allowing businesses to immediately deduct the full cost of new investments, just as they do for labor or utility costs.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

“Compliance costs associated with tracking incremental qualified R&D for the credit are higher than expensing qualified R&D activity to take the deduction,” Watson says.

From Barron's • Mar. 14, 2026

“Why would you do something to poke the bear by expensing a chair?”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 30, 2026

He said it was too soon to say what proportion of the increase was due to full expensing, but predicted that it would eventually increase it by about 1.5% a year.

From BBC • Mar. 3, 2024

By being placed in the centre of the clearing, an assault could not be made without expensing the assailants, and the spring always assured to the garrison the great requisite, water.

From Wyandotte by Cooper, James Fenimore