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17/04/17
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Originally posted by Trade67
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I hope some can help me with my tax question with previous experience rather than a general advice.
I received my commsec summary for year 2015-16. It shows Total Buy $85,000 and total sell $67,000. The list is made up of 30 transactions.
When my accountant was doing the tax return, he said I am more of share trader and he treated my trading style as a business. Therefore, he was saying my loss is about $-18,000 (i.e. 85000-67000 = 18000).
Is this correct a correct way?
Because I did not lose 18000 as some individual stocks are on "hold" status. My actual loss is about $2000 as I record all my transactions in the Excel.
The question is why they only look at Total Buy and Total Sell and their difference?
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If the ATO accepts your "trader" status, then whether you are trading shares or potatoes, the same accounting prinicple applies:
a) Value of opening stock = $x
b) +/-, sales/purchases of stock = $+/-y
c) closing value of stock = $z
"trading" income for the year = x ((+/-))y -z