Taxation - What Can a Property Investor legal claims administration services Claim?
What and What not to Claim
The Australian Tax
office (A T O) lists about 25 key areas in which rental expenses can be
claimed.
What you can Claim:
- Advertising for
Tenants
- Bank Charges
- Body Corporate
Fees
- Borrowing Expenses
- Cleaning
- Council Rates
- Gardening and Lawn
Mowing
- Insurance
- Land Tax
- Legal Expenses
- Pest Control
- Property
Management Fees Commissions
- Quantity
Surveyor's Fees
- Repairs and
Maintenance
- Secretarial and
Bookkeeping Fees
- Security Patrol
Fees
- Servicing Costs
(IE: servicing a hot water system etc)
- Telephone calls
and rental
- Tax-related
expenses
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administration services Travel and car
expenses (rent collection, inspection of the property, maintenance of the
property etc)
(You can claim a
deduction for these expenses only if you actually incur them.
What you cannot Claim:
The ATO lists some
of the following expenses for which you are not able to claim deductions:
- The acquisition
and disposal costs of the property (these costs include the purchase cost of
the property, conveyancing costs, advertising expenses and stamp duty on the
transfer of the property)
- Expenses not
actually incurred by you, such as water or electricity charges borne by your
tenants
- Expenses that are
not related to the rental of a property, such as expenses connected to your own
use of a holiday home that you rent out for part of the year.
You cannot claim interest when:
- You incur it after
you start using the rental property for private purposes
- On the portion of
the loan you use for private purposes (money you use to purchase a new car etc)
- On a loan you used
to buy a new home if you do not use the home to produce income.
There are enough
legal tax savings to help you minimize the amount of tax payable, so stay legal
and don't try and claim expenses or costs that are not related to your property
investment or be creative on items that you would like to deduct. The tax
office has long arms and will eventually catch up with you and when they do
beware the penalties are horrendous and there could also be a lengthy jail term
for trying to defraud the government, so simply stated don't do it even when
other investors say they did and got it through, it just is not worth the
effort.
When ever you are considering taxation and what
is or is not deductible find a great accountant, or financial advisers that is
up to date on the taxation laws and regulations, avoid the temptation of trying
to do it your self the tax legislation is far to complex.
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