When Hadia Tajik rented out a dormitory part of the home she owned with her brother in 2009, the rental income was, according to her, tax-free. They should not have been, according to a tax law lawyer.
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Income from renting your own home is only tax-free if you live in the home yourself, according to the tax law.
Tajik has previously explained to VG that she did not live in the home she bought with her brother – even though she was registered there.
Tajik bought the Stavanger apartment of 60 square meters with his brother in the beginning of 2008.
– From the summer of 2009 we went with a small profit. My share was a tax-free profit of a few hundred kroner a month until I sold in January 2010, Tajik told VG earlier Friday.
The two apartments Tajik owned, but did not live in, at this time, were purchased at the same time as Tajik had tax-free commuter housing in Oslo between 2006 and 2010.
She has not answered VG’s question whether she would have been able to afford to buy these two apartments if she had not had a tax-free commuter home.
Rented out the dorm
Tajik confirms that she received rental income from the apartment she bought with her brother.
– The apartment I owned with my brother in Stavanger had a small dormitory that was rented out. Renting this did not make a profit for the first year and a half and the expenses were shared between me and my brother, she writes in an e-mail to VG.
– From the summer of 2009 we went with a small profit. My share was a tax-free profit of a few hundred kroner a month until I sold in January 2010. I transferred my shareholding to my brother for the same amount I went in with in 2007, because I did not want to make money on my brother. The apartment is 60 square meters. And also contains a dormitory part, she continues.
– The few hundred bucks
Associate Professor at the Department of Law and Management Eivind Furuseth tells VG that you must actually live in the home you rent out, if you are to get a tax exemption.
– When she did not live there, everything becomes taxable. You must pay tax for the difference between tax revenue and costs. When she rented out a room in the apartment, it also became taxable, says Furuseth.
In that case, it is the few hundred bucks a month, for six months, that we are talking about here, which the lawyers think I should have taxed, Tajik told NRK.
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