The deemed cost of an asset representing the sum of the amount originally paid plus any additional costs, such as brokerage fees and commissions.
Not exact matches
Choosing to apply CGT relief might sometimes result in a capital loss arising on the
deemed sale
of a CGT
asset, as the
asset's market value at that time may be less than its reduced
cost base.
The mechanism used to reset the
cost base
of a CGT
asset to its market value is to
deem a sale, followed by an immediate repurchase
of the
asset.
However, if the actual
cost is less than the fair market value
of such
asset as on 31st
of January, 2018, the fair market value will be
deemed to be the
cost of acquisition.
Many Canadians who owned taxable capital
assets like cottages at that time filed an election to claim a
deemed capital gain based on the then fair market value
of their cottage, which would generally become your new adjusted
cost base for capital gains tax purposes.
Many Canadians took a
deemed capital gain on their 1994 income tax return that pushed up the tax
cost of certain capital
assets for tax purposes — including their cottages — based on the market value at that time.
Gear used for the business
of travel blogging would either be deductible as an expense (meaning that the entire
cost would be taken in the year the item was purchased) or depreciated (meaning that the
cost would be spread across a few years depending on what the IRS
deems is the «useful life»
of that
asset).