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Documents - definition

Business documents are documents or copies of documents that:
  • relate to the carrying on of a business by any person, and
  • are part of any person's statutory records.
Both of these points must be fulfilled for a document to be a business document.
Statutory records means the records required to be kept by law.
The requirement is different for different taxes.

Sometimes Statutory records are defined in general terms (non-specific records) and sometimes the Statutory records required are specifically detailed (specific records).