Individuals Claiming a Net Rental Loss Has Flat-Lined over Recent Years

The Australian Tax Office (ATO) released their taxation statistics for the 2014-15 financial year last week, and from a housing market perspective it provides some really valuable data on property investor behaviour.

Over the 2014-15 financial year, property investors claimed $11.120 billion in net rental losses compared to $7.491 billion in net rental profit.  The value of net rental profit rose by 0.3% over the year while the value of net rental losses was -2.3% lower…