Are your funding costs deductible? This paper covers how to ensure they are after the Economedes [2004] and Forrest [2010] decisions. Can you bank on getting a franking credit?
Topics covered include:
- financing investments in shares, trusts, hybrid trust and direct assets
- treating dividends as interest payments; franking credits; redeemable preference shares
- ramifications of the Full Court’s decision in Mills v Commissioner of Taxation (re Perls V)
- dividend access shares: high or low risk planning tools? What are the issues?