Property Tax — NZ Investor’s Guide (updated third edition)
This book is a concise guide to essential information about tax — information you need to succeed in property — and how to make sure you’re paying no more than you have to, while claiming your legal deductions.
Accessible, written in plain English with lots of practical examples, this updated third edition of Property Tax covers the key issues of taxation affecting real estate investors in New Zealand.
Based on his ten years experience as an accountant and property investor, Mark Withers explains — in simple language — areas that can seem complex.
He covers legal structures, GST, depreciation, rental yields, and what can and can’t be claimed. He shares his strategies for success as an investor and provides valuable hints for avoiding trouble with the IRD.
Read this book and expand your knowledge of:
- What you can claim
- Structures for ownership, including LAQC’s
- GST issues
- Depreciation
- When you should sell
- Implications of sale
- Successful investment strategies
- Boarders & Flatmates
- Holiday homes as investments
- Buying property in Australia
- Trading versus investing
- Taxable land transactions
- And much more…
An easy-to-read book on a vital topic for every NZ investor.
Written by Mark Withers, a chartered accountant and director of Withers Tsang & Co Ltd, a firm specialising in tax advice for property investors.
Mark is a popular speaker at Property Investors conferences and writes a monthly column in NZ Property Magazine. He is a successful commercial and residential property investor himself, a founding member of the Auckland Property Investors Association.
The 7 key traits of successful property investors
What do profitable and successful property investors have in common?
Find out in this Audio CD programme.
What traits or habits distinguish successful property investors from the average?
What do effective investors do differently that puts them a notch or two above the rest? It’s not age or background, not race or religion, nor is it necessarily what they invest in or where.
Over more than 10 years, Chartered Accountant Mark Withers has ’done the books’ and advised on tax and investment strategy for thousands of property investors. He’s been ’up close and personal’ with his clients, their finances, and their property portfolios — varying from small to very large. In that time he’s been in the privileged position of observing the common elements of successful (and unsuccessful) investors.
From this advantaged viewpoint, Mark has been able to ’join-the-dots’ and identify the common elements of successful investing. Observing his clients, (and learning from his own investing experience) he’s gathered some surprising lessons about what works in property. He’s also seen what doesn’t work — sometimes spectacularly!
Mark has collected these thoughts together to create a ’roster’ of the 7 key elements of success in property. This high quality studio recording (one Audio CD approx. 50 minutes) will give you a chance to hear some of his conclusions perhaps adopt some of these strategies for yourself.
Mark Withers is an Auckland chartered accountant specialising in tax advice for property investors. He’s a popular speaker at Property Investors conferences and a successful commercial and residential property investor himself.
* Mark’s book Property Tax — A New Zealand Investor’s Guide is a surprisingly easy to read guide which offers a ’plain English’ look at the key issues of taxation affecting Property Investors.
How to Survive and Prosper in a Falling Property Market
Protect and build your wealth — experienced investors share strategies
AN INVESTOR’S GUIDE
FREE Download: Sample chapter
How to Survive and Prosper in a Falling Property Market … and other vital secrets to building wealth through real estate
Learn how to invest for PROFIT and SAFETY in a changing property market.
Get the inside story on what happens as the property cycle turns.
These veteran investors and expert authors share essential facts, advice and wealth-building strategies for today’s property investor.
Read this clear and accessible handbook to learn how to both safeguard and increase your real estate assets as the market changes.
In How to Survive and Prosper in a Falling Property Market you’ll learn…
- different strategies for success during the phases of the property market
- warning signs and indicators to watch
- how to keep track of the key fundamentals as they change
- where the pressure builds in a cooling property market
- how to position yourself to benefit from emerging opportunities
- how to avoid the mistakes even intelligent investors make
- dealing with finances under pressure
- bargain-hunting strategies — and how to recognise a ’bargain’ that isn’t!
- … plus much more.

