Muscle up and wrestle your tax back…
It’s here again, the end of the financial year, a time for collating all of the financial happenings over the past 12 months and thinking about new beginnings from 1st July. Or as is the case for many in the property industry, preparing accounts and reports for share holders, as it is just the beginning of the reporting period.
Napier & Blakeley are the original experts in property depreciation deductions – we will make sure that you do muscle up and receive the maximum benefits available to you through depreciation and capital allowances. Our experience is second to none in the market place and our track record speaks for itself. So let us wrestle on your behalf.
It’s at this time every year that we provide an update of the legislative goings on in the accounting area of property depreciation and over the past 12 months there have been a few. Continue reading
Buyers Beware… Investigate or Reach for your Wallet
In the last year Napier & Blakeley have undertaken more than 100 physical due diligence and capital expenditure forecast exercises with a combined value in excess of $10billion.
It’s rare to find nothing that would be considered problematic for an incoming owner, but the last few years there have been a few issues that have become commonplace through either lack of ongoing investment and maintenance or as a result of new market legislation.
The GFC brought substantial financial constraints to the entire economy but for property owners it brought pressures through loan to value ratios (LVR’s), reductions in value and rental income. This created a catch 22 situation where many knew they had to keep maintaining and spending capital to keep their assets compliant, relevant and therefore rentable, but were unable to directly fund or borrow funds to do so.
We recently re-analysed an asset that we had prepared due diligence and capex forecasts for a few years ago, and the list of items that we identified in our initial report were almost completely the same as now. Nothing had been fixed, maintained or repositioned. So, many years down the track the asset has fallen deeper into redundancy and therefore costs more to rectify. Continue reading
