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Rental Properties offer Tax advantages
Rental Properties and Tax Advantages
Thinking of investing in a second home and renting it out? If you do not do it now, there is no better time to do that. The kind of tax advantages that a second home, that fetches you rent, are so good that you can actually turn this into a profitable venture, despite the fact that sometimes you would have bought this property on a mortgage loan.
You thought you would end up paying tax on the income generated out of rent? You are wrong. The government has built in some wonderful exemptions on different facets of the income generated out of a rented property. Let me tell you that buying a second property to rent it out is considered to be as good as a business venture. The laws treat this as an income generating venture and offers different sops to encourage this segment so as to create better infrastructure business.
There are different ways you can take advantage of these exemptions. All you need to do is plan in such a way that your equity is separated from the home mortgage payment. This insulates the value of the property from market volatility. Secondly invest this amount in some instrument that gives you some assured returns. This effectively gains you some amount on the long run.
Like in any other business, the law stipulates certain expenses that are mandatory in running the organization, which in this case, is the rented out property. These are clubbed to form part of exemptions, the amount of which can be reduced from the income generated out of rent received.
Below are listed a few deductions that can be effected to show as expenses in running the business of running the property:
Interest component of loan: The interest component paid towards mortgage of property is subject to tax exemption. This reduces the loan liability to a good extent thereby providing a respite to owner.
Maintenance expenses: Expenses incurred towards maintenance of the aforesaid property - includes cleaning charges, landscaping expenses, plumbing and electrical expenses, and any such activity required to on a periodical basis.
Depreciation on Property: The property depreciates its value as years pass by and such depreciation is considered to be loss from property.
Travel Costs: Cost incurred by landlord for dealing with tenant and tenant’s problems at the rented property is considered to be expenses incurred and such costs are reduced from income received.
Miscellaneous costs: Any other cost incurred like legal or brokerage charges, loss due to accidents at the property is also considered to be deducted from income for computation of taxable income.
These are one among a plethora of incentives laid out by governments to encourage spending on infrastructure. The unwritten law for any government being that infrastructure and construction in key areas like housing or transport boost economy and such laws aim to increase spending by citizens in these areas. To effectively utilize these incentives, the one big effort that landlords have to do is to be highly disciplined in their transactions. It would be worthwhile to keep all transactions regards the rented property separate from the normal transactions, thereby ensuring transparency and ease in filing of data as required by IRS for tax exemptions.
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