[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 26, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
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[CITE: 26CFR1.174-1]

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                       TITLE 26--INTERNAL REVENUE
 
    CHAPTER I--INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 
                               (CONTINUED)
 
PART 1_INCOME TAXES--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 1.174-1  Research and experimental expenditures; in general.

    Section 174 provides two methods for treating research or 
experimental expenditures paid or incurred by the taxpayer in connection 
with his trade or business. These expenditures may be treated as 
expenses not chargeable to capital account and deducted in the year in 
which they are paid or incurred (see Sec. 1.174-3), or they may be 
deferred and amortized (see Sec. 1.174-4). Research or experimental 
expenditures which are neither treated as expenses nor deferred and 
amortized under section 174 must be charged to capital account. The 
expenditures to which section 174 applies may relate either to a general 
research program or to a particular project. See Sec. 1.174-2 for the 
definition of research and experimental expenditures. The term paid or 
incurred, as used in section 174 and in Sec. Sec. 1.174-1 to 1.174-4, 
inclusive, is to be construed according to the method of accounting used 
by the taxpayer in computing taxable income. See section 7701(a)(25).