{"id":3569,"date":"2026-10-18T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chipkie.com\/au\/?p=3569"},"modified":"2026-10-18T22:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-18T11:28:15","slug":"family-loan-to-invest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chipkie.com\/au\/blog\/2026\/10\/18\/family-loan-to-invest\/","title":{"rendered":"Family Loan to Invest: 2026 Rules You Must Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

By The Chipkie Team<\/strong>, Personal Finance Editorial Team  \u00b7  Last updated 11 October 2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Money inside families is doing a lot of heavy lifting right now. With property prices stretched and sharemarket investing easier than ever through apps, it has become common for parents to hand an adult child capital to get started. But a family loan to invest<\/strong> is a very different animal from a gift, and the difference decides who pays tax, who claims the interest, and \u2014 when markets turn \u2014 who wears the loss.<\/p>\n

Australia has no gift tax and no inheritance tax, so the question is almost never “will the ATO tax the transfer?” It is “can anyone prove what this money actually was?” That is where families come unstuck.<\/p>\n

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