Industrial Buildings Allowance. The taxpayer, which operated cash and carry warehouses, sought to obtain IBAs on the ground that the buildings were used ‚Äö√Ñ√∫for the purposes of a trade which consists in the storage ‚Äö√Ѭ∂ of goods‚Äö√Ñ√π (CAA 1990, s.7(1)(f)).Goods were stacked up to ceiling height in the warehouses; on average, around 6 weeks’ supply of each type of goods was held, assuming normal volume of salesHeld: The determining factor is the purpose for which the goods are kept or held. In this case, they were only stored to be available for self-service by customers, which was a necessary incident of the business of a wholesale supermarket; on the other hand, ‚Äö√Ñ√∫storage‚Äö√Ñ√π in s.7(1)(f) CAA 1990 means storage as a purpose and end in itself.David Goy KC and Aparna Nathan appeared for the taxpayer