API Finance Calculators

Monday, August 31, 2009

Trust essential

In most cases it's not worth putting family home in a trust in AU as you give up your capital gain tax discount.
 
Have a registeed mortgage over your own property, so you stand 2nd in line behind the bank
 
To move from PPR 1 to PPR2 , and use PPR1 as investment property
 
PPR1 worth 600k, mortgage $100k, sell PPR1 to TrustNG for $600, Trust NG (Me the director of corp trustee) borrows $600k and use the property as investment, the interest is fully deductible, but we need to have income distributed from a different trust to take the tax benefit
 
I get paid $600k by Trust NG less $100k mortgage, I have net $500k to buy PPR2
  • The settlor must NOT be a beneficiary, or it will render the trust invalid.
  • Settlement fund ($20 or so) must be a donation and it cannot be invoiced for, or it will render the trust invalid.
  • Trust CF+ or Trust business distributes profit to Trust NG, but the trust deeds need to allow income to be distributed between trusts.
  • A good deed should also allow change of trustees
  • Divorce courts will see through structures if the assets are accumulated during course of marriage
  • no  more than 4 trusts under 1 company
  • Don't put different risk class assets in same structure (not trust!), as liability can flow from Trust 1 to Trustee then to Trust 2
  • Piggy bank trust owns the shares of all the non-trading trustee companys. I am the trustee of the piggy bank trust.
  • I should be the appointer who can change trustees.
 
 
 

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