The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has released its taxation statistics for the 2016-17 financial year, which registered a small fall in the number of negatively geared property investors, with annual losses claimed also falling marginally.
According to the ATO, there were 2,179,107 people claiming net rent in 2016-17 (2,149,796 claiming gross rent), a 1.0% reduction from the previous financial year:
