Category «Before You Buy an Investment Property»

Debt Recycling!  Does shuffling funds around really change the nature of the debt?

Download PDF       Well a lot of this has to do with whether your dominant purpose is a tax benefit.  Yep Part IVA, the ATO’s secret weapon that defeated capitalised interest arrangements.       Debt recycling, suggesting that you can change non tax deductible debt into deductible debt by buying whatever the promotor is selling.   Very …

Property Investing Basics

Download PDF       This article is dedicated to the client who sold his rental property just before he retired rather than just after.  A very frugal man who does not waste money on tax advice.  For the sake of a bit over a year he paid more than $30,000 extra in tax.   At times here …

Labor’s Removal of Negative Gearing on Established Properties and Reducing CGT Discount To 25%

Big news for property investors! If Labor win the election this year they will remove negative gearing for properties purchased after 1st July 2017 unless they are new builds. Chris Bowen explained new builds as completed within the last 12 months and the investor is the first owner after the developer. I would hate to …