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BigIron(Newbie)Newbie
14 Mar 2025

Hello,

I am planning to refinance my owner occupier property to get a better rate and to also extract some equity from my property to invest in shares. My current home loan has a redraw facility and I have stored 50 K in the redraw, with a total mortgage of 550K.


My plan is as follows:

  1. Pay down the 50 K to bring down the money owed on the house to 500K.
  2. Refinance the mortgage and get two loans with offset accounts: a. Mortgage loan owing 500k, principal and interest loan (this should reduce my repayments) and b. A new investment loan of 100K, interest only loan to buy income producing ETFs.
  3. I want to park my new $100 K loan into the offset account linked to my investment loan and dollar cost average my exposure to the market by removing $5000 every month from this offset account into my share-trading account to buy ETFs

As I draw down the money in the offset account each month to buy income producing ETFs the interest that I have to pay should also increase each month accordingly. Is this interest tax deductible?

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RachelATO(Community Moderator)Community Moderator
31 Mar 2025

Hi @BigIron,


The key factor in determining whether interest is deductible, is the purpose of the borrowing. If you borrow money to buy shares or related investments, from which you would earn income, you can claim a deduction for the interest.


If you use the borrowed funds for both private and income-producing purposes, you have to apportion the interest expense.


This tax ruling goes into detail about deductibility of interest from redraw facilities.


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