Income Tax, Income or Capital Gain #31
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By Gerry NeelyB.A. LL.B. The intention of the taxpayer as the determinative factor in whether one hundred per cent of the profit realized on the sale of property is taxed as income, or only fifty per cent as capital gain, is described in the following two cases. In the first one, the taxpayer stated that …