“Trade” definition of section 1 of ITA

“trade” includes every profession, trade, business, employment, calling, occupation or venture, including the letting of any property and the use of or the grant of permission to use any patent as defined in the Patents Act or any design as defined in the Designs Act or any trade mark as defined in the Trade Marks Act or any copyright as defined in the Copyright Act or any other property which is of a similar nature;

“Year of assessment” definition of section 1 of ITA

“year of assessment” means any year or other period in respect of which any tax or duty leviable under this Act is chargeable, and any reference in this Act to any year of assessment ending the last or the twenty-eighth or the twenty-ninth day of February shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, in the case of a company or a portfolio of a collective investment scheme in securities be construed as a reference to any financial year of that company or portfolio ending during the calendar year in question.

“Trading stock” definition of section 1 of ITA

“trading stock” includes

(a)        includes-

(i)      anything produced, manufactured, constructed, assembled, purchased or in any other manner acquired by a taxpayer for the purposes of manufacture, sale or exchange by the taxpayer or on behalf of the taxpayer;

(ii)     anything the proceeds from the disposal of which forms or will form part of the taxpayer’s gross income, otherwise than-

(aa)   in terms of paragraph (j) or (m) of the definition of ‘gross income’;

(bb)   in terms of paragraph 14(1) of the First Schedule; or

(cc)   as a recovery or recoupment contemplated in section 8(4) which is included in gross income in terms of paragraph (n) of the definition of ‘gross income’; or

(iii)    any consumable stores and spare parts acquired by the taxpayer to be used or consumed in the course of the taxpayer’s trade; but

(b)        does not include-

(i)         a foreign currency option contract ;or

(ii)        a forward exchange contract,

as defined in section 24I(1);