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Income Tax Act 2007

Timing and quantifying rules - Depreciation

EE 2: Nature of ownership of item

You could also call this:

“Explaining what it means to own something that can lose value”

When you own something that can lose value over time, it means you have legal or equitable ownership of it. This includes other types of ownership described in sections EE 3 to EE 5.

If more than one person owns an item that can lose value over time, your ownership means the share or interest you have in that item.

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Part E Timing and quantifying rules
Depreciation

EE 2Nature of ownership of item

  1. Own, for the ownership of depreciable property,—

  2. means legal or equitable ownership; and
    1. includes ownership of the kinds described in sections EE 3 to EE 5.

      1. When more than 1 person owns an item of depreciable property, own means the interest that the person has in the item.

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