Tax time is here! Are you paying too much tax ?
Do you own or have you bought an investment property in the past financial year?
Or… have you recently refurbished, altered or extended your investment property in the past financial year?
Or… do you own an investment property but have never claimed depreciation in the past?
Or… own any property including commercial, retail, industrial, residential, pubs, clubs, sporting – we are experts in them all.
If your answer is yes to any of these questions then you may very well be paying too much tax on your income if you don’t claim your depreciation deductions.
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. Continue reading
Federal Budget extension to depreciating assets
The Treasurer delivered the Federal Budget on Tuesday 11 May 2021.
Temporary full expensing of depreciating assets will be extended for an additional 12 months until 30 June 2023, allowing businesses to deduct the full cost of eligible depreciable assets acquired from 6 October 2020 and first used or installed ready for use by 30 June 2023.
- Owners should be preparing detailed listing of depreciating assets as part of the tender process thus capturing more detail and potentially more write offs at the time of completion. A detailed analysis of variations that may have happened should pick up the rest of the write offs at completion of the project.
- There is opportunity to bring “forward” capital projects for refurbishments and upgrades.
- Any projects that are on the drawing board at this time (for investment not trading stock) and potentially due for completion by June 23 should capture the potential write off amounts for their feasibility calculations. The cash flow benefit will significantly increase as a result of the write offs. Continue reading
