Generally, you work out your tax on your net income from all sources, including your net rental income. You do this in the tax return you must fill in every year.
When you deduct your allowable rental expenses from your gross rental income you're left with taxable rental income.
The way you work out income and expenses is not the same for all residential property.
Check out tax by rental property type to see what to do for your property.
Work out your gross rental income
Add up your gross rental income for the year.
Work out your allowable rental expenses
Add up your allowable rental expenses. This amount depends on your rental property type and how it was used.
Tax by rental property type
Work out your net rental income
Deduct your allowable rental expenses from your gross rental income. The rental income you have left is what you’ll pay income tax on.
Any allowable rental expenses left after deducting your gross rental income are your excess deductions.
(If you and 1 or more people own the property, work out each owner’s share of the rental income and rental expense deductions.)
Joint property ownership and tax on rental income
Manage your excess deductions
You cannot use your excess deductions against the other income you have, such as salary or wages or business income.
You must carry excess deductions forward from year to year and deduct them when your property makes residential income.
Residential rental property deductions
Complete a Rental income - IR3R form
The IR3R form helps you work out your rental income and deductions. You’ll need one for each of your rental properties.
If you co-own the property, enter only your share of the rental income and deductions.
You can complete it and send it in myIR.
Log in to myIR secure online services
If you complete your IR3R in myIR, the amounts will pre-populate in the relevant fields in the income section of your income tax return based on information you provided. It is your responsibility to make sure the amounts are correct.
Complete your tax return
Different types of residential property owners will have their own tax returns to do.
Complete my individual tax return IR3
File a Partnerships and look-through companies income tax return IR7
File an IR6 trust or estate income tax return
Income tax return for non resident individual taxpayers (IR3NR)
If you do not have myIR you can download and print the Rental income form.
What happens next
Make sure you file your tax return and pay your tax within the timeframes.
It's a good idea to update any records, such as copies of forms you’ve sent us or records of excess deductions.
Your excess deduction records should match how you applied the residential property deduction rules to your property.