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Land purchase with plan to build home on to eventually retire to.

Question My wife and I own our current home, purchased in 1982.We have just purchased a block of land down the coast (May 2013) and paid cash.We plan to build a house on the block within the next 12 months, and will use this as a weekender or for holidays over the next several years. …

Australian tax on sale of UK property

Question BackgroundMy wife and I (dual UK/ Australian citizens) have a house in London which we rent to tenants. We are registered with the UK’s tax authorities and, following interest, expenses and allowances, have had little or no annual tax liability on the property. UK tax Returns are submitted annually.The house has been leased to …

stamp duty consession / cgt

Question Approx 2.5 years ago we purchased a vacant block of land on the north coast of NSW. We received a stamp duty concession of approx. 1100.00 as a first time buyer. We had a home designed with council approvals but our circumstances have now changed.We now reside in central Qld and are in the …

Deductions for building studio/granny flat

Question We own a 280sqm block with an existing house. We bought this property in January 2011 for $1M.We rented out the property for the first 18 weeks of ownership.The property is now valued at $1.1MWe plan to build a garage with a self-contained apartment above (the studio will have 35sqm living area of a …

CGT

Question Our land in NSW was bought by a holding company registered in the A.C.T. for a syndicate of 3 shareholders -two shares each) prior to Sept 1985.The land was in two titles (one 10 acres and the other 60 acres) and a house was built by an individual shareholder on each title (also prior …

increase in value of land during construction stage

Question Land introduced into a partnership business, and therefore becoming trading stock at a price, rises in value during construction period because of market conditions. If this land had remained a capital asset, the tax would be determined by CGT provisions. Instead, the increase becomes revenue. Yet, the increase is a capital increase, not one …

Is payment to spouse tax deductible?

Question My wife and I contribute about equally to each other’s income earning potential and what we would like is to have that reflected in our tax returns. Is a spouse allowed to pay the other for their contributions, and would this type of payment be tax deductible?By the way thank you for your two …

introduction of property to partnership

Question What does it mean in tax terms to "introduce" vacant land held for a long time )but not pre-CGT) jointly by husband and wife to a business entity in a serious unit development when the business entity is a 50-50 family partnership comprising only husband and wife that has come into existence when it …

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 …