Shannon Johnstone is an Australian resident taxpayer. In the 2019/2020 income tax year, he entered into the
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Jet Ski
Shannon loves spending time at the beach with friends. Most of his friends own a jet ski, therefore in October 2019 he purchased his first single seat jet ski for $8,000. He used the jet ski a lot over the summer and realised he should have purchased a triple seat jet ski so Lucy can be included too. Shannon approaches a jet ski retailer and decides to purchase a new three-seater jet ski on 1 May 2020 for $18,000. The retailer offers to trade Shannon's single seat jet-ski on the purchase of the new jet ski. The trade in price offered is $6,000, leaving a balance of $12,000 that Shannon pays on the day of collection.
Book collection
Shannon owns three first edition novels from the Chronicles of Narnia series. The first book 'The Horse and His Boy' cost $310 and was purchased on 21 October 1985. The second and third novels, 'The Silver Chair' and 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' were purchased together from a book collector on 1 March 1996. The purchase price for each novel was $350 and $480 respectively.
Shannon decides to sell the books to help fund his business venture Warm or Frosty Pet Mats'. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe sells first for $11,000 on the 15 January 2020. The remaining two books are sold to the same book collector on 18 April 2020 with $3,800 realised for The Horse and His Boy and The Silver Chair is sold for $4,500.
Industrial property - 180 Frankston Dandenong Road, Dandenong South, Victoria
On 20 June 2017, Shannon signed a contract to purchase an industrial building in Dandenong. The ownership of the building transferred to him on 18 July 2017. Shannon rented the industrial building to an engineering company from the 18 July 2017 until he sold it. The engineering company signed a contract to purchase it on 24 June 2020 and the ownership transferred from Shannon to the engineering company on 1 July 2020.
The industrial building cost $480,000 when Shannon purchased it and he sold it for $900,000. Shannon incurred legal fees of $3,200 and paid stamp duty of $9,600 as part of the purchase.
House - 29 Merle Street Greenslopes
Shannon signed a contract to purchase a house (on 0.2 hectares) at 29 Merle Street Greenslopes on 12 June 2010 for $500,000. The title of the house passed to Shannon on 12 July 2010. On 30 July 2017 Shannon moved out of the house and relocated to Sydney to further a business venture. He rented a house in Sydney and has lived in that house since 31 July 2017.
The house at 29 Merle Street was rented to tenants from 31 July 2017 until 24 April 2020. On 1 April 2020, Shannon sold the Merle Street house under contract for $800,000. The property transferred to the buyer on 31 May 2020.
Other information
Shannon also advises you that he has a carried forward capital loss of $4,000 from the previous sale of land and a carried forward capital loss of $360 from his stamp collection.
Question
what is Shannon Johnstone's "net capital gain" for the 2019/20 income year?
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