Question: QUESTION 3 ( 3 5 Marks ) Charity te Water a 5 4 - year - old farmer recently won the best farmer award in

QUESTION 3(35 Marks) Charity te Water a 54-year-old farmer recently won the best farmer award in the Free State Province. His farm business includes a range of livestock and maize. The following are the receipts, accruals and expenditure for his February 2024 year of assessment.
INCOME Livestock sales 1150000 Sales maize 1975000 Subsidy received from Government to assist with solar installation 75000 Rentals for letting a portion of her farmland to nearby villager 150000 Bonus from a Community Society Forum for maize supplied to it 35000 Grazing fees 210000 Produce sales (wool and fruit)150120 Dividends received from South African companies 12500 Fee for letting the tractor to the farm villagers 10500 Interest received from fixed deposit investment 3500
EXPENDITURE Development expenditure: New irrigation equipment 250000 Dams and boreholes 22360 Establishment of orchards 13600 Purchase of irrigation pipes maize farming 25000 Purchase of new tractor on 1 March 2023 maize farming 185000 Cost for solar installations and farm electrification 100000 New fencing 23420 Roadmaking 16350 Soil-erosion works 13500 Fertilizers 25250 Food for livestock 29350General farming expenses (all allowable)33950 Interest payable 16460 Livestock purchases 1040200 Repair of damaged fencing 13250 Eradication of noxious plants in the maize fields 45000 Seeds purchase 22960 Wages and Salaries 1110550
STOCK R Closing stock livestock standard value 65000 Closing stock livestock market value 650000 Opening stock livestock standard value 55000 Opening stock livestock market value 725000 Notes: 1. Charity te Water slaughtered four cows for her domestic consumption and five cows as rations for her employees. She donated two cows to the farm local church. The standard vale of a cow is R50, its cost prices is R6500, and its market value is R12500. Charity te Water inherited livestock from an uncle during March 2023. The market value of this livestock was R720000. Its standard value is R1650.2. During the current year his family consumed produce with an estimated cost of R10500.3. Charity te Water is not a member of a medical scheme. Qualifying medical expenses paid by her in the 2024 year of assessment amounted to R15500. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO calculate the taxable income of the farmer for the year of assessment ended 29 February 2024?

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