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- From: c.oneill@trl.oz.au (Chris O'Neill)
- Subject: Re: Negative Gearing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.034509.11169@trl.oz.au>
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- Organization: Telecom Australia Research Laboratories
- References: <Bxszyq.LsJ@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> <1992Nov17.062737.22016@trl.oz.au> <BxusMp.29n@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au> <1992Nov18.005443.8650@trl.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 03:45:09 GMT
- Lines: 53
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- In response to a suggestion that I provide an example of how the tax office can
- usually be expected to make a loss because of negative gearing, I have worked
- out the following. The suggestion was in response to the comment I made in the
- article <1992Nov18.005443.8650@trl.oz.au>:
-
- > See if you can make a
- >realistic example that includes interest on the tax office losses.
-
- Suppose we have 8% inflation, 18% (nominal) interest rate, 6% rate of return on
- investment, 48.25% tax rate and an interest only loan. Under these conditions
- the proportion of negative gearing decreases as time goes by and eventually the
- return exceeds the interest. For the sake of clarity suppose the original
- amount borrowed and invested is $100,000. Interest is fixed at $18,000 per
- year. Rental return is $6,000 the first year and increases with inflation
- after that so we have:
-
- year rent loss or gain loss or gain absorbed present value of A
- by tax office(A)
- 1 $6000 $12000 $5790 $5790
- 2 $6480 $11520 $5558.40 $4710.51
- 3 $6998.40 $11001.60 $5308.27 $3812.32
- 4 $7558.27 $10441.73 $5038.13 $3066.36
-
- 16 $19033.01 $1033.01(gain) $498.43(gain) $41.63(gain)
-
- You can do this on a spread sheet if you like but I just wanted to calculate
- the total present value loss absorbed by the tax office if this situation
- continues forever. This gives the least loss absorbed by the tax office
- because it makes a gain every year after year 15. I used the geometric series
- summation formula to get the result.
-
- The total present value loss absorbed by the tax office is
-
- [$18000/(1-1/1.18) - $6000/(1-1.08/1.18)] 0.4825 (*)
-
- = $22774
-
- The derivation of (*) is left as an exercise to the reader :-).
-
- I hope we all now realize why this country was going down the tube so fast. We
- have been given a temporary respite from out-of-control negative gearing by a
- massive recession that has stopped inflation. But inflation only needs to be a
- few percent before negative gearing is once again worth doing on high return
- investments such as shares and only needs to be 5% before it╒s worth doing on
- rental property returning 6%.
-
- The horrible realization is that what happened in the eighties can happen all
- over again, maybe not as severely but enough to ensure that Australia╒s
- distorted investment problem continues.
-
- Chris O╒Neill
- Telecom Research
-
-