Section 70Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Cth)

‑1  What this Division is about

This Division deals with amounts you can deduct, and amounts included in your assessable income, because of these situations:

• you acquire an item of trading stock;

• you carry on a business and hold trading stock at the start or the end of the income year;

• you dispose of an item of trading stock outside the ordinary course of business, or it ceases to be trading stock in certain other circumstances.

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70‑5 The 3 key features of tax accounting for trading stock

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