Contains all the latest property capital gains tax planning information
ISBN: 9781907302732
STATUS: UPDATING
Property Capital Gains Tax
How to Pay the Absolute Minimum CGT on Rental Properties & Second Homes
This acclaimed tax guide contains dozens of capital gains tax saving strategies for property investors and second home owners.
Written by one of the country’s most respected property tax experts, the information contained in this guide could save you tens of thousands of pounds in capital gains tax.
With numerous examples and plain English summaries, it also contains the clearest explanation you will find anywhere of how property capital gains tax is calculated.
Property Capital Gains Tax is essential reading for:
- All landlords and buy-to-let investors
- Everyone who owns a second home, either in the UK or abroad
- Anyone wanting tried and tested ways of legally paying less capital gains tax
- ...plus all the tax saving tricks the tax professionals keep up their sleeves
- Anyone wanting to know how to calculate capital gains tax
What Information is Contained in the Guide?
Subjects covered include:
- How to reduce your taxable income and pay CGT at 18% instead of 28%.
- How one property investor could save almost £30,000 by doing exactly that.
- How your spouse or partner can save you £17,453 per year in capital gains tax.
- How your children can help you avoid capital gains tax completely.
- How trusts can be used to safeguard children’s properties.
- Main residence elections - How to enjoy a tax-free second home
- ...plus some special tricks to obtain extra tax savings on multiple properties.
- How unmarried couples can have two tax-free main residences... plus the traps to avoid.
- How to develop part of your home and avoid CGT.
- How to avoid being classified as a property trader and taxed at 42% or 47%.
- The benefits and drawbacks of using a company to invest in property.
- The new Entrepreneurs Relief rules - How to pay tax at 10% and save up to £1.8 million.
- How to convert heavily taxed income into leniently taxed capital gains.
- Absolutely everything there is to know about the Principal Private Residence Exemption.
- ...including how the exemption can be used to avoid capital gains tax altogether.
- How Private Letting Relief can shelter an extra £80,000 per property from the taxman.
- How to distinguish between improvements and repairs and obtain the best tax outcome.
- Transferring assets to a spouse with short life expectancy - possibly the simplest and most powerful way to completely avoid capital gains tax.
- Remortgaging your properties - the dangers banks and brokers don't tell you about.
- How to completely avoid capital gains tax if you emigrate.
- The enormous tax benefits of furnished holiday lets, including rollover relief and 10% capital gains tax.
- Using Enterprise Investment Schemes to delay CGT & save up to £300,000 income tax.
- The new Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS), offering a 50% income tax refund and CGT exemption.
Property Capital Gains Tax is currently out of print.
However, all of the information is contained in How to Save Property Tax. This guide also contains a huge amount of income tax planning information.
