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Draft Taxation Determination

TD 93/D230

Income tax: where a taxpayer acquires standing or growing crops and the crops remain unharvested at the end of the year, should they be accounted for as trading stock on hand?

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Preamble

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1. No. Subsection 36 (1) of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 does not extend the section 6 definition of 'trading stock' contained in section 6 to include unharvested crops.

2. The general principle established in Case 14 (1944) 11 CTBR 52, that crops, fruit and timber become trading stock only after they have been harvested or severed from the land, applies when determining what is to be valued as trading stock for the purposes of section 31.

Note: Subsection 36 (1) allows the purchaser to claim a deduction for the purchase of these crops, refer to TD 93/D231.

Commissioner of Taxation
9 September 2002

References


BO TOW30

ISSN 1038 - 8982

Related Rulings/Determinations:

TD 93/D231

Subject References:
trading stock
crops

Legislative References:
ITAA 6
ITAA 31
ITAA 36(1)

Case References:
Case 14
(1944) 11 CTBR 52


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