The Israeli Ministry of Finance has recently approved a tax reform regarding benefits to be granted to Israeli new immigrants as well as "returning residents" as of January 1st 2008. The reform, initiated by the ministry of absorption and the Israeli Tax Authorities, was formed as part of the "returning home- Israel's 60th" project.
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Whoever it is aimed at in the real estate market, it will not give the realty world a much needed boost as it is yet another deterrent to buying a home, this time aimed at investors. Capital gains tax is always part of the profit and loss formula when investing in realty, and the levels were generously high for both investors and regular residents who live in their home. Residents still have the same concessions but now it has changed for investors. To re-cap on the capital gains that was - and still is for residents owning one house in which they are living and have lived for two years: the allowance on capital gains is $250,000 for a single person and $500,000 for a married couple. Capital gains taxation is only charged on the profit made on the sale of the house, which is usually not necessarily on the actual sale price of the house. However, there is a marked change in the taxation laws for people who buy a home and rent it for a while and then move into the home for a two year period prior to selling it. It used to be possible to sell the home and convert all the profits that were made when it was a rental into tax free income under the capital gains umbrella. The new law has changed all that. Even though investors may have lived in the rental home for two years before selling it, their capital gains allowance is no longer sacred. The new law says it must be calculated pro-rata and is divided between the taxable years that it was a rental property and the non taxable years when the owner lived in it. This new rule comes into effect on January 1st 2009 and this is a hypothetical example of how it might look. You buy a home in June 2009 for $400,000 and you rent it out for three years, live in it for two years and sell it in June 2014 for $700,000. (Dream on!) This means that you have a capital gain of $300,000 (assuming that nothing can be used as tax write-offs). Under the old system you could be exempted from capital gains tax by using your single person's allowance of $250,000 capital gains exemption. This means that you would have only had to pay capital gains tax on the last $50,000. This no longer applies; now the tax department will tell you that yes, you may claim the capital gains exemption for the two years that you were actually living in the residence i.e. you can claim two fifths of the $300,000 profit against your own personal allowance of $250,000. This calculates into $120,000. However, for the other three years -when it was a rental property - the capital gains tax is applicable. Therefore, you will pay the percentage rate of capital gains tax on the remaining $180,000 (three fifths) of the profit of $300,000 that you made when you sold the house.
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