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''Sustainability - finance - mortgage loans.''
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A green mortgage is a mortgage loan specifically targeted at green buildings.
A basis of allocating costs or allowances across successive time periods by applying a consistent periodic percentage charge to - for example - the reducing net book value of a fixed asset.


Providing an incentive for borrowers to either buy a green building or to renovate an existing building to make it greener, the lender offers either a lower interest rate or an increased loan amount.
 
'''Example'''
 
A fixed asset has a cost of $12m,
 
to be depreciated on a reducing balance basis at a rate of 40% per year.
 
 
The depreciation charge for Year 1 would be:
 
= $12m x 40%
 
= $4.8m.
 
 
The net book value at the end of Year 1 (and the start of Year 2):
 
= 12 - 4.8
 
= $9.2m.
 
 
The depreciation charge for Year 2:
 
= $9.2m x 40%
 
= $3.68m.
 
 
The net book value at the end of Year 2 (and the start of Year 3):
 
= 9.2 - 3.68
 
= $5.52m.
 
 
And so on.
 
Using a reducing balance basis of depreciation, the net book value never falls to zero (unless the asset is disposed of).
 
 
2.
 
''UK tax.''
 
UK Writing Down tax Allowances are normally available to be claimed on a reducing balance basis.




== See also ==
== See also ==
* [[Green]]
* [[Depreciation]]
* [[Green asset]]
* [[Straight line]]
* [[Green bond]]
* [[Sum of the digits]]
* [[Green Bond Principles]]
* [[Writing down allowance]]
* [[Green buffer]]
* [[Green Climate Fund]]
* [[Green collar]]
* [[Green crime]]
* [[Green curve]]
* [[Green debt]]
* [[Green Economy Mark]]
* [[Green energy]]
* [[Green equity]]
* [[Green finance]]
* [[Green Finance Education Charter]]
* [[Green Finance Initiative]]
* [[Green gilt]]
* [[Green hydrogen]]
* [[Green infrastructure]]
* [[Green loan]]
* [[Green Loan Principles]]
* [[Green Paper]]
* [[Green project]]
* [[Green swan]]
* [[Mortgage]]
* [[Sustainability]]


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[[Category:Accounting,_tax_and_regulation]]
[[Category:Corporate_finance]]
[[Category:Investment]]
[[Category:Long_term_funding]]
[[Category:Identify_and_assess_risks]]
[[Category:Manage_risks]]
[[Category:Financial_products_and_markets]]

Revision as of 12:35, 18 March 2015

1.

A basis of allocating costs or allowances across successive time periods by applying a consistent periodic percentage charge to - for example - the reducing net book value of a fixed asset.


Example

A fixed asset has a cost of $12m,

to be depreciated on a reducing balance basis at a rate of 40% per year.


The depreciation charge for Year 1 would be:

= $12m x 40%

= $4.8m.


The net book value at the end of Year 1 (and the start of Year 2):

= 12 - 4.8

= $9.2m.


The depreciation charge for Year 2:

= $9.2m x 40%

= $3.68m.


The net book value at the end of Year 2 (and the start of Year 3):

= 9.2 - 3.68

= $5.52m.


And so on.

Using a reducing balance basis of depreciation, the net book value never falls to zero (unless the asset is disposed of).


2.

UK tax.

UK Writing Down tax Allowances are normally available to be claimed on a reducing balance basis.


See also