Section 23 properties have had their tax treatment changed, in effect the buyer honoured their side of the contract from the outset and after the initiation of this the Government reneged on their side of it. This is contrary to the idea of fairness, the concept of contractual obligations, and it undermines the faith any taxpayer can have in the state.
The state recently cut many people with income tax and reductions in entitlements, but these were never contractual and people certainly didn’t leverage up to obtain them. Landlords may not be a group worthy of sympathy, but at the same time recent changes to taxation on rent (Case V income) mean the amount of financing expense the business can offset has dropped by 25% (mortgage interest you can offset has gone from 100% to 75%), this is contrary to the rules of accounting when you look at any other business.
The only solution is a reversal of this policy, and perhaps the only way to ensure this is to apply the idea of mutual …