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Because im quite risk adverse i wanted to take some money out of a revolving account and put it in separate bank account in term deposit
That way if the revolving account is closed i still have a buffer
Advantages
Buffer incase revolving accounts are closed
Disadvantages I would pay tax on the interest of the term depositInterest would not be as high compared to the interest rate i take from my revolving account
Does that sound right? What would people recommend?
You get taxed on all income, it's a good part of our tax system. Some countries overseas treat different types of income differently, we don't.
To clarify the above, RWT is not 'deductible', it's tax. If you earn $1,000 in interest and are getting RWT deducted at 17.5%, you'll have $175 of tax taken from you. At the end of the year you have earned over $48k in total from all income sources, you'll need to pay some extra tax because it should have been taxed at 30%. If you have earned less than $14k, you'll get a refund because you should only have been taxed at 10.5%.
Because im quite risk adverse i wanted to take some money out of a revolving account and put it in separate bank account in term deposit
That way if the revolving account is closed i still have a buffer
Advantages
Buffer incase revolving accounts are closed
Disadvantages I would pay tax on the interest of the term depositInterest would not be as high compared to the interest rate i take from my revolving account
Does that sound right? What would people recommend?
Hi Investorak,
If you are an investor, a revolving credit and savings account will be even for tax, just the interest rate might be different.
Option 1 - have $100,000 in revolving credit used to buy rental. Save interest at say 4.5%, so 4,500. Then you won't get the tax deduction on the $4,500, so really gains you $3,000 after tax.
Option 2 - 100,000 in savings account at say 3.5%. Earns $3500 in interest, less tax is say $2345.
The difference is the 1% interest rate, otherwise the same.
If revolving credit on your personal house, then different!
Ross
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If revolving credit on your personal house, then different!
Actually, I've got to disagree here. It's exactly the same. Pulling money out of any revolving credit account to invest in a Term Deposit would be deductible. The borrowing is for the purpose of earning taxable [interest] income so deduction is allowed.
All gummints just adore multiple tax collections. Petrol would be a shining example. As I dimly recall there's a tax on an added tax on an added tax, in that case. (Called excise and/or duty and/or some other name, just to keep people confused)
If revolving credit on your personal house, then different!
Ross
To clarify(you could look at this several ways, but below is how I looked at it)
If you have 100k cash. The option 1 I showed above is if the revolving credit was used to buy a rental.
If the revolving credit was used to buy your personal home. Then no tax deduction.
So if the 100k cash was put into the revolving credit, it would save say $4500 in interest and you would lose no tax deduction as the interest wasn't deductible to start with.
Ross
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Ross Barnett - Property Accountant
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