It’s Tax Time – Are you paying too much tax?
Have you bought an investment property in the past financial year?
Have you recently refurbished, altered or extended your investment property in the past financial year?
Do you own an investment property but have not claimed depreciation in the past?
If your answer is yes to any of these questions then you may very well be paying too much tax.
Depreciation schedules are a vital part of any property investment, they assist in reducing taxable income and maximising your tax refund.
Property tax allowances (commonly known as depreciation) provide an opportunity for owners of income producing property to reduce their taxable income, thus reducing the tax payable. Napier & Blakeley was the first Australian company to provide specialist property depreciation services with dedicated in-house specialists to identify all available deductions throughout the life cycle of your asset. Continue reading
Have you been scrutinising your Depreciation & Asset Registers?
Now that we are in the world of hold and manage assets, it’s probably time to stop making do and get engaged!
It is a regular occurrence and easy thing to simply adopt the vendor’s depreciation schedule. Tax law allows a purchaser to apportion values to all depreciating assets they acquire, i.e. air conditioning, lifts, carpet, chattels, etc. to reflect the cost of the asset as acquired by the purchaser. In a rising market this may even represent a value that is more than its original replacement cost.
On a recent assessment of a property that was acquired by a client for around $15million, the apportioned value of depreciable plant was a staggering $4million more than the vendor’s written down value. The tax sheltered amount increased $3million in the first 10 years of ownership. Assuming a tax rate of 30%, the increased cash value in the first year alone was $220,000 with the ten year tax deferral being $1.8million. Continue reading
