Margin Scheme Strategy
Question Have client purchased residential property with house December 1997 for around $180,000 (using Company Structure, in business code “on tax returns” of rental/lease of no residential properties ie owns 3 other commercial properties leased). Property (land) price now valued around $600,000 Rented the Residential House on and off most of the period up to …
Buying a Farm to Retire to in Your SMSF
Question I am planning to set up an SMSF. I am transferring my industry fund to an SMSF after receiving a redundancy in 2019. The current balance in the Super account is $350,000. It will be a joint SMSF with my partner, who has an old super fund with just a few hundred dollars in …
Choosing Which Main Residence to Cover When Children are Living in Your Old Home
Question Capital Gain in a Trust with revenue losses. Trust has only one beneficiary. Trust has revenue loss for the year of $29,788 with a Gross Capital Gain of $200,000 on the sale of the Business. Therefore accounting distribution is $170212. Tax return has a Capital Gain (Net after discount and active asset reduction) of …
Distributing Discounted Capital Gains to Trust Beneficiaries
Question I have several questions regarding how Capital Gains Tax would apply to a transfer of title of a residential property to one of my children. Background: In 1981, I purchased a residential property in Sydney and I was registered as the sole proprietor. From the date of purchase, my wife and I occupied the …
Tax, GST And A Builder’s Home
Question I bought a house in NSW with a vacant block adjoining in September of 2018. The block was on two separate titles but purchased from the one vendor. It was purchased solely in my name. We have lived in the house since purchase and have now decided to renovate the house we are in …
Questions about how a Trust Operates
Question Facts * I setup a Trust and Corporate Trustee for our family back in 2009 shortly after our first son was born. * My wife and I are the (only) two directors of the Corporate Trustee. * I’ve not had any updates made to the Trust Deed since. * We made two—highly speculative, illiquid—private …
Tax Settlement of Investment Property
Question Dec 13 – My client & his brother in law purchased an investment property in Victoria. Did few repairs to put it on to rent. Jun 14 – Tenanted for 1 year up to Jun15 Oct 14 – Transferred 50% of their respective share to their wives owning 25% each after the transfer out …
Turfing After A Drought
Question In the recent drought, the lawn has completely dried out and died off. Now that the rain has arrived, everything has started growing again, however there is no longer any trace of lawn. The weeds have completely taken over. To maintain the property in a tenantable state, and to minimise vacancies, I am considering …
Non Resident Sell shares purchased when a Resident
Question We moved to Australia in 1996 and would have continued to do so today but my elderly mother-in-law required looking after and we went back to New Zealand in 2007. During those 11 years in Australia we bought approximately $100,000 of shares (under my wife’s name) and now these shares are worth around $190,000. …