I purchased my ppor which was leased for 18 months before we moved in. We have lived here for 8 years and are thinking of selling. Is there a cut off time for CG?
9.5 years of ownership, approx 20% rented so approx 20% subject to CGT.
I specialise in trusts as a lawyer and mortgage broker yet it is not the norm with my clients either. Possibly 20% of my clients use trusts to own real property.
Yes it would be a CGT event. No exemption if it wasn’t his main residence. And if he is a non resident then no 50% CGT discount any any gains made after a certain date (last year I think). He should seek tax advice as you should too.
Most depressing post ever lol but definetly something that should be spread around. Is it true that if you get divorced they can get some of your super as well?
Death is a fact of life and I deal in this area everyday so I guess I am used to it, but don’t find estate planning around death depressing. I’ve seen a lot of problems arise which could be been easily avoided.
You should consider land tax from the get go, not once the threshold has been reached. It is difficult and costly to change land ownership later so plan ahead and minimise the pain.
In QLD land tax is generally not chargeable to an individual if they hold land which is valued less than the threshold – which is currently $600k. THis is land only within QLD and doesn’t include the main residence.
Why wouldn’t they be invalid. First one is grammatically incorrect and ambiguous – what does it mean – do you need an engineer just to confirm that the trees are removed?
Whereas if I have my current home in a Trust then that debt would only count against my lending for that one bank I have the mortgage through and not through other banks. So for example now i have a $300,000 dollar mortgage, and they will only let me borrow up to 560k then i only have 260k to play with no m
I don’t know if they could ask you to pay down the loan – like in margin call for shares- if the price dropped due to market forces. Not sure I have read anything in a loan agreement which states they could either. But if you are doing something to devalue the property – demolishing part of it et then you would be in breach of the terms of the agreement and they could then call in the loan.
Why do you want to pay off the loan? Why not use IO with an offset account and save the same interest but keep funds available for private nnon deductible debt/
I’ve never financed one myself, but if you get a licenced building to build it under a fixed price contract, and it is not removeable, then you should be able to get standard loans.
Under s8-1 ITAAA97 any expense related to producing assessible income cna be deductible.
But you may have problem. If you have redrawn from a non deductible loan you will be charged one large sum of interest each month. Only part of this will be deducctible. That is easy enough to work out. However if you are repaying this loan by paying PI and/or extra repayments then each of these repayments will be coming off the whole loan. So what this means is you are reducing the investment portion of the loan too and thereby diverting funds away from paying off the home loan sooner. This is costing you money by making more tax payable. This in turn means less money to go off the non deductible debt and compounding over 20 to 30 years this would be a heap of money.
Solution – see a tax advisor about splitting your loan now. Split into the relevant portions and from this point have the investment portion IO and then you can pay down the non deductible portion quicker and save more money.