142. Where a taxpayer to whom an amount is owing as proceeds of disposition of depreciable property of a prescribed class of the taxpayer, other than a passenger vehicle to which paragraph d.3 of section 99 applies or a zero-emission passenger vehicle to which paragraph d.5 of section 99 applies, establishes that the amount has become a bad debt in a taxation year, there may be deducted, in computing the taxpayer’s income for the year, the lesser of the amount so owing to the taxpayer and the amount by which the capital cost to the taxpayer of that property exceeds the aggregate of the amounts realized by the taxpayer as proceeds of disposition.
However, in the case of a bad debt resulting from the disposition of a timber resource property, the taxpayer may deduct the amount so owing to him.
1972, c. 23, s. 131; 1975, c. 22, s. 15; 1993, c. 16, s. 79; 1995, c. 49, s. 236; 2021, c. 182021, c. 18, s. 2811.