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An
Offset Mortgage enables you to have a number of savings or banking accounts
and offset the interest earned in those accounts against the interest owed
on your mortgage. This means that you can pay the mortgage interest less
the interest earned on the other accounts or alternatively, the earned interest
is used to repay the mortgage capital. You decide which of these options
you want when you arrange the mortgage. (Both the Mortgage and the all other
accounts will need to be with the same organization.) The arrangement is
tax efficient as the Offset Mortgage saves you paying tax on the interest
you would have received on the other accounts.
You will appreciate that an offset mortgage is complicated so you need to
make sure that your accounts are offset in the best possible way take full
benefit. You therefore need to take professional mortgage advice.
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