Deducting interest on a loan to repair a rental property?

Question

I own and rent out an apartment in a building that needs extensive repairs. The body corporate has broken the levy for the repairs into six payments. For the first three payments, last tax year, I paid them from a separate account I opened expressly for this purpose, then, when I re-fixed the mortgage, I transferred the balance of that account to the mortgage. In the meantime there were interest payments on the overdraft, which were clearly tax deductible. This year I am doing the same thing for the next three payments, but in the meantime I have paid off my personal overdraft, and have a savings account where I keep the money I owe the IRD (I pay GST and provisional tax every six months). I want to transfer money from this account to the repairs account to avoid paying interest on the overdraft, which is at a far higher rate than the interest on the savings account. My question is, if I do that, then transfer that money out again when I need to pay taxes, is the resulting interest still tax-deductible?

Answer 1

All interest on a business loan for your investment property is tax deductible.