Monthly archives: February, 2013

The CGT main residence exemption

Question I am a retired Accountant/Tax agent and assist my Brother-in-law and his Wife to prepare their tax returns utilising Etax.This years tax (2012/2013 will be more complicated in that they have sold their Sydney investment property (Quakers Hill).Period of their occupancy and other data is as follows:29/03/1996 – Purchased vacant land at Quakers Hill …

Use of previous years rental losses to offset this years net rental gain

Question Sir/Madam,I have had 2 jointly owned investment properties with my wife for over 7 years. We are non residents and have little or no other income in Australia during this period. At the end of 2008-2009 we had net total rental losses of $50,000 and $40,000 respectively. During 2009 – 2010 we had net …

Renting out the home…

Question Hi,From what I understood you don’t have to pay CGT when selling a property that was your main-residence within the last 6 years then you don’t have to pay CGT on it.On another point in the book you write that one has to move into the property as soon as possible.There are 2 cases …

Is CBA "MISA" – "good"

Question Hi,You write about an offset-Account and its use to make sure the Loan’s interest remains claimable if the money is drawn out of the Offset account rather than the Loan account. This topic became completely clear to me however unfortunately It doesn’t seem that the Banks really can give me a proper answer if …