This site will give you full information about the subsidy you can get from the Government to pay for your care in a resthome.
Read the following Note quickly. It will be repeated at the bottom of this article. Read through the article first.
NOTEThe Government has announced that it will significantly raise the asset limit for a residential care subsidy in 2005. For a single person, it is now $180,000).
Asset limits to be raised from 2005 onwards
In April 2003 the Government announced that it would "progressively remove" asset-testing for the Residential Care Subsidy from 1 July 2005.
In the first phase, from 1 July 2005, the asset limits would be raised as follows:
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"I have heard that through the Will I am able to gift up to $27 500.00 of my property per year to some one that I want to inherit without paying gifting fees where do I find a template for this
Netlaw answers: Good morning,
You posted a blog on Netlaw this morning. We reply as follows.
Gift duty is not payable on money or assets which pass under your will. Therefore, you can leave $1,000,000 to someone in your will and it is not classified as a gift.
However, if you wanted to give someone $1 million during your lifetime then that would attract gift duty at 40 cents in the dollar (subject to a more specific calculation about a lesser amount of gift duty in some bands above $27,000) for any amount gifted over $27,000 per year. This is why gift programmes over a number of years have to be set up during the course of your lifetime to avoid or minimise paying gift duty.
But we repeat - money or assets left under a will are not treated as gifts for gift duty purposes. Nor are death duties payable any more. They were abolished well over 10 years ago.
