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How to avoid tax on rental income in Ontario, Canada?
I am thinking of buying a 4-plex. the cost of the house is 175,000 dollars. After 25% down, I am left with 125,000 mortgage. My monthly mortgage is close to 1300 dollars for 10 years. My house is rented out for 40,000 a year. After all the expenses EXCLUDING the mortgage (utilities, property tax, maintenance, snow removal, gardening etc). I am left with 24,000. When I take out the mortgage amount, I am left with 700 dollars in my pocket. I am also working full time. I am hoping to maximize my mortgage payment, and hopefully pay everything out in 5 years instead of 10. After 5 years, I will have roughly 2000 to 2500 dollars in my pocket. My question is, what do you think of the current situation I am in? And, how to avoid paying taxes on 700 income from rental property and 2000 dollars 5 years from now? Do you have suggestions? I am up for any advise. Thanks!
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- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
The deductions mentioned will help but I would advise against depreciating the building itself. Just doing so will increase the capital gain when you sell it.
Your rental operation is a business. Every business to survive must earn a profit. Running a rental business.
If you want to have more money in your pocket, start doing more of the property maintenance yourself. Paying others to do items that you can do is why you won't have much in your pocket.
Your rental rates should reflect the true cost of everything it takes to run the place. Coming up with a rate and figuring out everything after is not the best course of action.
If your monthly expenses are 4k, and you want to make a 10% return on your money, increase your revenues to 4400. Pricing yourself to low in the market place will lead to this exact situation.
- neoplopLv 71 decade ago
This is not Canada>Taxes>Tax avoidance.
You are "forgetting" two allowable deductions: capital cost allowance on the building, and mortgage interest. Which will probably reduce your profit to a loss for taxes.
Regardless, $700 profit on $43,750 cash down is a return of 1.5% per year. Not great.
- ?Lv 45 years ago
you ought to verify with the Canada gross sales organization internet site, although, being a landlord, you're working a small corporation. in view which you're amassing an earnings you nonetheless would desire to pay tax. My suggestion to you is to bypass to city corridor and get a corporation licence that's variety of $a hundred or do it on line(i.e. "your call condominium residences"). then you definately would desire to get a GST huge form that's loose on line too from the CRA internet site no count number in case you're amassing GST or not, you may desire to have this huge form. as quickly as you have those 2 products, you could then deduct expenses that are touching directly to your employment as a landlord...i.e. upkeep, paint, electric powered, expenditures for fee of heating, telephone cable and internet installation expenditures, property tax, etc. you additionally can then do a capital depreciation on the fee of the abode. And once you do record, in case you're dropping funds then you definately can write it off as a small corporation loss. there is a lot extra to it, yet this ought to get you began. wish this facilitates.
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- Classy GrannyLv 71 decade ago
I don't know about Canada, but if you were in the US I would advise not trying to get away with not reporting rental income or any other income for that matter. It's called fraud and you can to to jail for that