Rahatupu wrote:kiwaru wrote:Just do a break even: depending on your cost base (financed or self funded). If the financing is significant, do the 30% of net profit (after deducting expenses e.g the interest payments on the mortgage are an allowed expense, as well as the depreciation (commercial, rental and industrial buildings).
@kiwaru, I think that option is sealed since the bracket is well defined as gross totaling to less than 10 million. Please explain how you arrive at 30% of net profit as far as finance cost is concerned.
Assume you have just started collecting rent of Kshs 4.8M (and this is a 10% ROR) on the value of the building) so your building is worth 50M.
1. Option 1: pay 10% of gross coming to 480K. No expenses are deducted, including utilities, security, mortgage interest
2. Option 2: pay 30% of net after deducting residential building capital allowance at 25% of the value coming to 12.5M(straight line for 4 years, can be claimed up to 4 years after the fact hence 8 year grace period), as well as the mortgage interest is expensed. Other expenses are the running costs (security, utilities, etc). One may end up avoiding tax for a while.
The 10% looks enticing because it looks like you are paying less that 30% of the gross (directly calculated as 1.44M) but with a little knowledge, no taxes for about 8 years min.
Get a good accountant to set you up. Or look for me