Property Tax Structures

Property Tax Structures One of the most common areas of advice given throughout New Zealand by solicitors and accountants is advice over the structuring and management of investment property.

There is also differing opinion as to the best structures to utilise, when it comes to managing investment property. This includes the best approaches when it comes to end ogf year accounting for property investors.

At GRA, we have over the years become very specialised in property structures and managing property investors affairs. This happened when founding partner, Matthew Gilligan started the practice and simultaneously became a property investor and property developer.

As a relative newbie to property at the time, Matthew went looking for expert advice in the area and found the level of advice on structuring property and wealth was not good in NZ as a whole.

We have had the same reported to us on many occasions by other investors since Matthew found this to be the case, and it was one of the reasons GRA and Matthew became so focused in providing Asset Planning advice to property investors. The reality is that it is an area of core need that is not well catered for by many accounting and legal firms.

Questions Frequently Asked by Property Investors

Common questions investors routinely ask GRA include:

1. How should I own my investment property?

2. How does my investment property structures fit into my business structures?

3. Should I use an LAQC or invest individually or use a Trust?

4. Should I use Trusts in my structures?

5. How do I break associated persons rules, and buy and hold property without
         it becoming associated to ( and taxable through )association to development
         or trading property.

6. How do I control the banks, so that they do not get security over all of my
         assets and is this possible?

7. How do I keep growing my investing activities, safely?

8. What types of investing strategies should I be considering, including:

   a. Buy and hold investment

b. Property trading property, flips, trades, etc

c. Development strategies, small and large scale

d. Lease options

e. Rent by the room

f. Land banking

g. Cross border investing - what should I be doing offshore and how does
                this affect my tax structures ?

Whether you are using these strategies or seeking more information about how they could work for you (and how you should structure your tax around these activities), then we are the people you need to talk to.

Here's How We Can Help You:

* Set up and run accounting structures

* Develop and implement investment strategy

* Find the right property for you

* Introduce you to expert alliance partners, who specialise in these strategies, including
running mentoring programmes and courses on these ideas.

To book a meeting to discuss these services and how GRA can help you, click below.

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Typical Salaried Property Investor Structure - Family Trusts & LAQC

For more information about this diagram, please request an interview.

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Typical Property Trader / Developer Tax Structure

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