ADMS 3520 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Property Income, Fiscal Year, Deferral
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The word business includes a profession, calling, trade, manufacture or undertaking of any kind whatever an adventure or concern in the nature of trade but does not include an office or employment. It is necessary to distinguish between: business income and employment income business income and property income business income and capital gains. The reason is that in arriving at the business income, business income incurred can be deducted while it is not so while arriving at the employment income and there are few restrictions in arriving at property income. Capital gains are only taxed at 50% and the capital loss can be only deducted against capital gains. How to identify whether a particular income is business income or from capital gain. Intent and the course of the conduct: number and frequency of the transactions, relationship to the taxpayer"s business, supplemental work on the property, nature of assets, objectives defined in the articles of association.