AU Tax - Rental Schedule Apportionment
Currently the apportionment percentage for the rental is calculated for all income and expenses. However, in reality this is not always the situation. Sage has the ability to change the apportionment of each expense individually as well which is very useful, time-saving and error reducing.
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Ray King commented
Agree. One part owner may have loan interest whilst the other shared owner may not.
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Brenton Dunne commented
I agree, this is a much needed feature.
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Joshua Ball commented
Absolutely important given rise of Airbnb Holiday rentals etc
Also functionality has existed in competitor software, MYOB and HandiTax for years
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Alexandra Tonon commented
Please incorporate this feature. it is used regularly and will greatly reduce the manual adjustments required.
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Kate Nguyen commented
Please incorporate this feature in the tax return settings
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Luke Palfrey commented
The ability to mark a portion of an expense as private for a year is absolutely critical - it's something that comes up regularly and should be just a standard part of the return. We can apportion for regular deductions (e.g. D5), but this needs to be a part of the rental schedule as well
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KATHRYN LOUISE FORBES commented
it would be an easy addition
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Julie Churton commented
agreed, MYOB too, so Xero really needs to make this easier. Client owns 100% of the property, but this year can only claim 80% of some expenses as rented airbnb. Manually reducing the expense doesn't work for capital works and depreciation. you need to keep them as they are, so they calculate next year when the % might be different. I ended up entering income to cancel the private % of capital works and depreciation and claiming 100% of the capital works and depreciation. And manually edited the expenses down was a waste of time.
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John Back commented
Great improvement, as long as default is based on ownership percentage and we only change certain expense percentage
An example may be Land tax. It may not apply to both owners on this property -
Jessica Balding commented
Private use of expenses in rental schedules should be an added feature. Would allow for transparency on the tax return for expenses & the private % use.
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Hari Sharma commented
Agreed!! This feature should be added.
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Tracey Murfit commented
I agree that there needs to be a way of apportioning expenses in the rental schedule. there are so many people with short stay rentals who use the house themselves for part of the year and therfore need to apportion costs across business/personal. Your work around is to calculate the percentage in a separate document then enter the apportioned costs into the return. This is not good for the client as they don't see the full costs reported anywhere and also makes it hard when depreciating assets are in the schedule and the percentage work related changes each year - there should at the very least be the option to apportion for these items from gross to net. I'm sure this was possible in past years, it must have changed in the 22 return?
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Lusia Kho commented
Enable auto populated rental information between co- owners after one of the owner's tax has been lodged.
Currently the auto populated rental information only available when all co-owners are still in Draft. Even sometimes the auto population doesn't flow in when all co-owners are still in Draft. It's time consuming when you have to re enter all the information especially when there are more than one rental properties involved.
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Dennis Nguyen commented
We cannot strip out the private percentage portion in the rental schedule. This would provide a vey useful audit trail.