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- From: yar@cs.su.oz.au (Ray Loyzaga)
- Subject: Re: Negative Gearing - a new question about capital gains tax
- Reply-To: yar@cluster.cs.su.oz (Ray Loyzaga)
- Organization: Basser Dept of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:28:48 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.042848.23397@cs.su.oz.au>
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- In article <alanf.722056652@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> alanf@cs.monash.edu.au (Alan Grant Finlay) writes:
- >c.oneill@trl.oz.au (Chris O'Neill) writes:
- >
- >>Negative gearing does not view the inflationary part of capital gain as taxable
- >>whereas it does view the inflationary part of interest on borrowings as tax
- >>deductable. This is how you make a gain while fobbing the loss on to the tax
- >>office:
- >
- >I'm glad someone could explain what is going on here. Thanks, Chris.
- >
- >A question I have which doesn't directly bear on negative gearing is:
- >what happens to capital gains when someone dies and wills their property to
- >someone else? Do capital gains get taxed in this caser? In some cases it
- >may not be possible to determine the original purchase price although in
- >the case of real estate I guess there is a government record kept somewhere.
-
- This is a particularly dodgy part of tax law, basically if you are about
- to inherit a whole lot of stuff that is not liquid, get them to sell it.
- This includes the family home.
-
- They way it works is this way:
- I own a house, I bought it in 1980 for 200,000, it is now worth
- $500,000. I die, and leave it to my 3 children. What happens ...
- Well the tax office doesn't know it it worth $500,000, they think
- it is worth the inflation indexed price, probably close to $380k.
- My death would cause a title shift to the children, this is
- given a "worth" worth of $380k. So if the kids sell it after my death
- they have to pay tax on the $120k capital gains. Now if I had sold
- it before I died, no gains would be taxable and the kids get the whole
- $500k. Seems a bit unfair ... but we are talking about tax law!
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