An Individual Business Taxpayer Owns Land on Which He Grows

question 48

True/False

An individual business taxpayer owns land on which he grows trees for logging.The land has been held more than 10 years and the trees growing on the land were planted eight years ago.Normally, the timber would be inventory for this taxpayer, but the tax law allows the taxpayer to elect to treat cutting the timber as the disposition of a § 1231 asset.

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Definitions:

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Postganglionic Neuron

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Sympathetic Impulses

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