The taxpayer acquired farmland and buildings for $130,000 and rented the farm out at $2,500 per year with the intention that they would not farm the land until after a mortgage on the farm for $80,000 was paid off in approximately three years' time. S.20(2) applied to deny the deduction of interest and property taxes on the property given that they were not in the farming business in the relevant years.
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