Taxation and Capital Gains: A Case Study

This assignment delves into the intricacies of taxation, specifically focusing on capital gains. Students are presented with a case study involving an individual's financial transactions and tasked with analyzing the tax implications. The analysis should consider various factors such as the type of transaction (sale of assets), holding period, and applicable tax rates. Additionally, students must evaluate the impact of taxation on investment decisions and economic behavior.

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Contents
1. Overall calculation of the net capital loss or gain for this year...................................................3
2. Loan to Brain...............................................................................................................................5
3. About Jack and Jill Loan.............................................................................................................6
4. Legal Plan....................................................................................................................................7
5. Land Problem of Bill...................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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The term taxation means the compulsory money that is collected by the levying authorities,
mainly by the government. The term is applicable to the involuntary levies, from the income to
the other gains in the capital to the estate taxes. The taxation is quite different from the other
forms of the payment such as the market exchange and other services. The government collects
the taxation through explicit and implicit manner or threat of force. The taxation is different from
the protection racket and the extortion because the institute on which is imposed is a government,
not private (Auerbach & Hassett, 2015). The tax system varies from place to place, countries to
countries. In the recent situations, the taxation occurs both in the physical asset like the property,
events and the sale transactions. The formulation of the tax is one the vital thing and issues in the
political circles.
The taxation is the principle where the government is raising the revenue. Without the taxation,
the government wasn't able to circulate the laws properly and face problems in the export and
import of the products. So the taxation is important to deliver the products or the public goods
and services to the various communities (Basu, et al., 2014). There are various ways government
can raise the revenue like; they can charge the fees for the rendering services and also for
granting the license impose fines amount for the breaches of the laws and generate new laws and
rules for various assets and investments (Besley & Persson, 2013).
Taxes are the special systems that are imposed on the communities. The taxation laws are
described as the body of the laws that helps to govern the liabilities of a person and the
organization to pay the tax. It covers the entire rule and establishes the tax base and incidence of
the tax. Australia has the vast body of the taxation law (Bick & Fuchs-Schündeln, 2017). The
primary source of the country is to find the thousands of pages of the tax legislation that are
enacted by the commonwealth, the territory parliaments, and the state.
1. Overall calculation of the net capital loss or gain for this year
The Australia's taxation laws are operated by the commonwealth constitution and the
international treaties that include the Double tax agreements (DTAs) entered into the foreign
countries. The taxation is extremely important and useful for various study and challenges of the
society because of the voluminous nature as well as due to the technical complexities. From the

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last years, it was observed that Eric has taken several attempts to solicit some asserts (Chen,
Wang & Yang, 2014). According to the question, it was assumed that he had those assets since a
year. The taxability of the capital increases when the selling price of the assets increased from
the base cost, according to the Dowell, 2013 (Dowell, 2013). The indexation cost will not be
valid to the Eric as he had not reserved asserts for more than a year.
Assets:
I. Asserts are brought by the customers for their personal fun and use that doesn't include the
collectibles. These assets are again sold to some other person; the taxability doesn't arouse when
the acquisition costs of assets are less than $10000. According to the question, Eric has acquired
the personal asserts (Farhi & Gabaix, 2015). The first item that he has acquired is the sound
system for the home which has the acquisition cost $12000. The second assert that was with the
Eric is the share of the company which has the acquisition less than the previous one that is
$5000.
II. Asserts that are brought by the Eric for his enjoyment and fun doesn't include the taxability of
gain capital as the procurement cost of assert is less than or may be equal to the $500. Depending
on this information, the collectibles are captured by the Eric. The very first assert that was
captured by the Eric is the painting which has an acquisition cost of $9000. The second assert is
the antique chair that has an acquisition cost $3000. The final assert is the antique vase having an
acquisition of $2000 respectively (Farhi & Werning, 2013).
Based on the entire discussion, the following has been formulated that are used to compute the
gain or capital of the respective assets.
Estimation of Capital
Particulars Cost Base of Assets Capital Proceeds of
Assets
Net Capital Gain/
(Net Capital Loss)
Antique Vases 2,000 3000 1000 Gain
Antique Chairs 3,000 1000 (2000) Loss
Painting of the assert 9,000 1000 (8000) Loss
Shares that are listed
in the company
5,000 20000 15000 Gain
Sound system for
home
12,000 11000 (1000) Loss

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Net Capital
Gain/Loss
5000 Gain
Some important notes:
I. Asserts that are acquired for more than a year for any personal use, the taxation of the
capital is applicable in such cases.
II. The taxability is applicable for the collectibles that are acquired and cost more than $500.
III. The capital losses for the whole year have been set with the necessary net value of gain or
loss.
2. Loan to Brain
Brian has suggested a new system to the employees where he was offering loan for three years
with one percent of interest on monthly basis. Due to this idea of $1 million, many came to open
their account and to get the benefits of the loans that were offered by the Brian to his employees.
He was offering the interest rate less than the market rate of the interest. Apart from this, to
compute the taxability of these types of benefits, the rate of the statutory interest should be taken
into consideration (Guner, Kaygusuz & Ventura, 2014). According to the question, the rate of
interest of the statutory will be 5.65% as the loan was offered on the 1st April of 2016.
In Step 1, In this case, the loan benefits will be calculated after the removing the rule. The
interests of the loan are based on the actual rate of the interest which should be subtracted from
the loan that is based on eth statutory rate of the interest. The interest that are based on the
statutory interest= $1000000*5.65%= $56,500.Interest that are based on the actual interest=
$1000000 * 1% = $10000. The taxation is different in both the case, that is $56,500 - $10,000 =
$46,500. In step 2, Brian should follow the next step carefully. He needs to calculate the
statutory interest rate after accepting the amount to be real and payable. The rate of interest is
$1000000 * 5.65% = $56,500 (Kleven, Landais & Saez, 2013). Coming to 3rd Step, from the
entire percent, forty percent was used in the utilization of the meeting for the future, where Brian
has computed the tax-deductible cost (manually) that is $56,500 * 40% = $22,600. AS per step 4,
out of the entire loan amount, forty percent was used in the meeting for the future by Brian (real
amount) that is $10000 * 40% = $4,000. In step 4, apart from the above steps, the real amount is

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now calculated in this step from the manual figure in order to arrive at the conclusion. Therefore,
$22,600 - $4,000 = $18,600. In Final step, the final amount should be calculated by deducting
the amount from the step 1 after determining the amount till step 5.Therefore, $46,500 - $18,600
= $27,900 (McDaniel, Repetti & Ring, 2014).
However, if there is any system of repayment of these loans before the termination period, then
instead of the usual repayment system, the deemed period of the loan will be assumed from
where the interest has been started or become payable, respectively (Mellon, 2016). Apart from
all these, the obligation is on the part of the repay mode of the interests, then in such cases, the
computation should be done in a similar manner like the actual interest rate which is considered
as zero (Miller & Oats, 2016).
3. About Jack and Jill Loan
Jack and Jill both have agreed to borrow the money for their rent house where the jack was
capable of receiving the 10% of the profit, whereas the Jill was supposed to get 90% of the profit
from their entire property. As per the written agreement in between the jack and Jill, in case of
any loss in the property, jack has to bear the full loss that is 100%. In the last year, they have
sustained a loss of $1000 which was completely paid by the jack without any obligation of the
loss on the Jill (Piketty & Saez, 2013). The loss created a set off on the other forms of the
incomes of the Jack which will determine the net profit or loss for the entire year. Apart from
this option, he has one more option that is to carry forward the entire loss for the following year.
Whenever Jack is facing is any type of loss, and then he has right to borne the total amount and
can carry forward the same amount in the upcoming years in order to maintain the net income or
loss of amount (Tanzi, 2014). In the second case, if there is any gain then the amount will be
divided between the jack and Jill in the ratio 10:90. In these cases, jack has the full right to set
off the entire loss of $1000 which has come after selling the property. Therefore, from the entire
discussion, it was cleared that jack was able to bear the losses that have occurred in the previous
year and he is gaining the amount in the present year after selling the property (Rothschild &
Scheuer, 2016). It was concluded that, if Jack didn't have any gain in the recent year then he has
to carry the entire loss without any involvement of the Jill. So, this process has helped the Jill to

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stay away from the taxation affects where the jack was only supposed to bear the loss of the
books (Tanzi, 2014).
4. Legal Plan
According to the law, every individual has the power to the legal plans and strategies that help
them to decrease the total income at the last of the every year, according to the case study of the
IRC v Duke of Westminster [1936] AC 1 (Miller & Oats, 2016). After going through the case, it
was cleared that every individual has the right to utilize the right and benefits that are attached to
the total income. In familiar terms, the rights are only valid when they are used in a fair manner
and correct methods are applied to it which is supposed to reduce the cost of the income and the
tax values at the end of the year.
The following principles are classified from the above case study:
Principles 1:
The complete authority has been given to the individual to use the strategic methods and plans to
reduce the total income by managing their own accounts (Chen, Wang & Yang, 2014).
Principles 2:
No extra taxes will be implemented if the process will be followed in a relevant manner without
any illegal means and methods.
Principles 3:
When the individual follows the fairway to reduce their amount and tax rate, then they will not
be forced to pay the extra tax rate in the near future.
The point number is valid until any new law is implemented in the country. The ideology is
different from each other and varies from the previous one. The main aim of these rules has huge
significance in the current situation in various manners (Kleven, Landais & Saez, 2013).
The rules are quite true and relevant for the surrounding as they are capable of preventing the
organization from extra accounts an advantage. Apart from this, the rule also offers the legal
power to the business authorities in a simple manner. For an example, when a business is facing

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huge losses in a particular year that address its obligations, then in such cases, they have the
chance to change the balance sheets and the amount and can prepare the new one with the fixed
assets and their values (Bick & Fuchs-Schündeln, 2017). In some cases, the business didn't
provide the relevant documents but still, they can proceed further. But certain restrictions are
applicable to them. They should not follow any illegal path to achieve so. Combining the entire
discussion, it is cleared that the organization has to operate in a fair manner to achieve the target
and should follow the laws and its procedure.
5. Land Problem of Bill
In this scenario, Bill has a piece of land which he has thought of using it for the grazing purpose
of the sheep. In order to fulfill his desire, the entire land needs to be cleared as trees were present
over there. Therefore, he has hired a logging company to clear the land. The company has
charged him $1000 per every 100 meters of the timber. But here the main question arises, that is
whether the tax is applicable on the logging company for the entire amount (Farhi & Gabaix,
2015). According to the given situation, there are no facts on the receipts that are received from
the firm which is considered as the revenue object or may not be considered as an object. The
highest degree of uncertainty proves that the rules which are related to the capital gains are not
applicable to Bill's recent situation (Farhi & Gabaix, 2015).
When the Bill is investing a total amount of the $50000 to the logging company for the removal
of the trees to get the timbers, then the same amount completely comes to Bill's hand as a capital
receipt. This happens due to reason where the total amount is considered as the lump sum and
there is no other recurring receipt for it. Again, the transaction that has occurred provides the
right to the particular authority to remove the trees from the respective lands. So, after the entire
scenario, the case was considered as the lump sum receipt as well as the total capital receipt.
Hence, the taxation of the capital is in the hands of the Bill (Bick & Fuchs-Schündeln, 2017).
So in the above two scenarios, the value of the invested money has a huge significance on the
laws of the taxation. The two cases are completely different. In the very first case, the receipt is
in the hands of the Bill and is recurring whereas in the second case, the receipt is in the hands of
the bill but that is not recurring that provides the right to receive the payments from the logging
of the trees in the further situations. He will get the same receipt in a bigger one and that will be

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considered as the one-time receipt (Besley & Persson, 2013). These are considered as the one-
time receipt because, when they are removed from the land, it will take more time to again grow
the trees on the same piece of the land. So, in the next situation, Bill is getting enough amount of
money from the opposite side. This act is considered a lump sum by selling assets. When one
party sells the product to the other party, then the same receipt is considered as well as the
taxation. When it was observed that the first case didn't attract any tax gain, then it should treat
as a normal tax and no capital gain.
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