In an article for the website realestate.com.au, Venessa Paech talks about how property investors should approach their taxes and how best should they claim their rental deductions.
Here are 9 tax recommendations for them:
- Do not claim capital improvements as an immediate deduction.
- Shy away from paying prepay interest
- Organise a depreciation schedule
- Claim the cost you fork out to inspect properties
- Use PayG Withholding Variation Application for negatively geared properties
- Disclose foreign property investments
- Keep receipts to justify your claims
- Bring down CGT
- Hire a top accountant
You can read the original article here.
The Australian housing market has managed to keep both the ‘investor’ and the ‘speculator’ within us engaged. It has rallied really well in the last couple of years and Sydney in particular has bucked every former trend and broken all the high walls of growth.
In an article for the website Your Investment Property, Miriam Bell sheds light on the losses made on property resales in recent times. It is any property investor’s wish to make as much profit on the sale as he/she can and thus it may be unwise to remain ignorant of the trend, argues Bell.
Investment properties can help you create a crazily strong portfolio for yourself. It can make you a millionaire or at any rate, give you a healthy positive cash flow. If you are really competent, it can give you rather ambitious ‘Buffet-esque’ dreams, too. But the downside needs just as much introspection. It is always important to conduct a risk-benefit analysis before getting into property investment.
You have property development in mind and you think you can go the whole distance single-handedly. Think again! It is clearly a team work and unless you have professionals to partner you at each stage, you are likely to falter sooner or later. Even if you succeed, the results will be far from positive. And who are these professionals I am talking about? Let us take a look.
A survey which used the services of 18 leading economists (including banks and organisations) yielded one common sentiment- the cash rate will be where it is for some time to come but it will definitely rise in a year’s time. Michael Yardney delves on the topic in an article for the Property Update.
