Sharpcan Pty Ltd v CofT – Expenditure on Victorian ‘gaming machine entitlements’ held deductible but, if capital, it was not ‘black-hole’ deductible over 5 years because it ‘enhanced’ the value of goodwill (before Pagone J as DP)
The AAT held that the taxpayer was correct in claiming certain expenditure, on ‘gaming machine entitlements’. The deductions were held to have been allowable, for the whole of the expenditure, in the year it was ‘incurred’, under the provision allowing ‘general deductions’, in s8-1 of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (ITAA97). These ‘gaming machine…