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By Julia Hartman
Download PDF I am very disappointed with this budget it claims to help people buy their own home but throws the homeless and those not in a position to buy under a bus. A small investor buying an established home to provide rental accommodation will pay more tax than an investor in shares, …
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 …
Download PDF Unless everyone you want to provide for already has income of over $135,000 a year investment bonds do not offer a tax benefit. Even then the limited tax benefit may be completely offset by the fact that capital gains on investment bonds do not qualify for the 50% CGT discount. Probably the …
Download PDF Is it really giving unto Ceasar what is Ceasar’s when you pay tax on your earnings to save up and buy an asset, then inflation increases the value of the asset so that if you sell it or gift it you have to pay more tax? It looks to me more like …
Download PDF At least the Reserve Bank has slowed down its rate of increase to only ¼%. Maybe that is a good sign the rate rises will stop soon. These days I am regularly asked whether a client should fix their loan. This is all about which way rates will go over the fixing period. …