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How to determine whether an item should be considered capital property
or inventory (capital gain or business income on sale)? - ANSWER
✔✔Courts/CRA look at:
1. Primary Intention - how the taxpayer intended to use it
2. Secondary intention - if primary intention is foiled, was there an
intention at the time of purchase to sell the property at a profit
What are factors to consider in determining the intention of the
taxpayer? - ANSWER ✔✔1. Relationship of transaction to taxpayers
business
, 2. Nature of the asset (if can be used over lots of time it could be a
capital asset)
3. Number and frequency of transactions (if lots then could be inventory)
4. Length of period of ownership (longer time could be capital asset)
5. Feasibility of taxpayers intention - if primary intention unlikely to
succeed then secondary intention may have been main play
6. Extent to which the intention carried out by the taxpayer - if little or no
effort to use it as a capital asset then it may be inventory
What is the formula for taxable income? - ANSWER ✔✔Income from
employment, business, property and other income
Add: Taxable capital gains less allowable capital losses
Less: Other deductions
Less: Losses from employment, business, property and allowable
business investment losses (ABIL)
= Division B Income (net income for tax purposes)
Less: Division C deductions (stock option and lifetime capital gains
deductions for individuals and dividends from taxable Canadian
corporations and charitable donations for corporations, non-capital and
net capital losses for all taxpayers)