Approximately $32.8 million in transfers from a family-owned Vanuatu supermarket business to an Australian-resident brother over eleven income years were gifts of capital, not income under ordinary concepts, where the payments were wholly explained by deeply entrenched family norms of loyalty and mutual support rather than any income-producing activity.
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