Who wants to pay tax when buying home must hurry – Elsevier

Who wants to pay tax when buying home must hurry – Elsevier

The tax exemption for donations to homebuyers converting buildings for Dijsselbloem too great a loss item in the budget – Photos ANP

 Who with the help of a tax-free donation of family or friends want to buy a house should hurry to make. The government does not. Extend the tax exemption for donations of 100,000 euros next year
 

That’s Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem (PvdA) said Friday.

Kickstart

The Minister said that the measure of the housing market has given it had needed.’kickstart’ But now, future homebuyers do it again with their own capital and / or a loan from the bank.

The scheme has been used in the past year about 50,000 times. For wealthy parents, it is mainly a convenient way to pay tax so the kids can come true. Among the inevitable inheritance tax This cynical charge the state picks up quite a Graantje (annually around EUR 1.7 billion) with the assets of a deceased person who had to give. During his life even though substantial amounts on the same power

More expensive house

In theory, the state through the tax exemption for donations to the mortgage interest deduction are less lost because homebuyers were less borrowing by a gift and lower interest expense would have.

But in practice the donation mainly used to the donated money to buy. an expensive house Association of Home and employers were in favor of maintaining the measure, but that call the government has given no answer

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