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1Group Property Advisory: Capital Gains Tax Strategies for Doctor Property Investors in Australia

Most Australian property investors treat Capital Gains Tax as something to worry about later — a problem for future-you to solve when the sale eventually happens. If you're a healthcare professional, this approach will cost you serious money. A specialist earning $350,000 who sells an investment property in the wrong financial year, without proper structure or timing, can hand the ATO tens of thousands of dollars unnecessarily. Money that could have stayed in your pocket with some advance planning.

At 1Group Property Advisory, we work exclusively with medical professionals to navigate the messy intersection of high-income taxation and strategic property investment. This article zeroes in on the exit and realisation phase — the moment when your accumulated wealth crystallises into a taxable event. It complements the rest of this series covering acquisition, financing, depreciation, and negative gearing strategies. Understanding how CGT applies to your property portfolio, and how to engineer the best outcome at disposal, is where the most consequential tax decisions get made.

You're time-poor and high-income. You need to approach CGT with the same rigour you apply to clinical decision-making: data-driven, evidence-based, and strategically planned years in advance.

What Is Capital Gains Tax and How Does It Apply to Investment Properties?

Australia's capital gains tax isn't a separate tax — it's part of your income tax.

When you sell or dispose of a rental property, you may make a capital gain or loss. A capital gain or loss is the difference between what it cost you to obtain and improve the property (the cost base) and the amount you receive when you dispose of it.

If you have a net capital gain, you pay tax on the gain at your marginal income tax rate. This is the critical point for healthcare professionals: your marginal rate determines the effective cost of every dollar of capital gain. For income over $190,000, the rate is $60,850 plus 45% tax on income over $190,000 — and that's before the 2% Medicare levy. A specialist at peak earning capacity faces a combined effective rate of 47% on each additional dollar of assessable income, including capital gains.

The numbers are stark, and they demand strategic planning from the outset of your property investment journey.

What Counts Towards Your Cost Base?

The cost base and reduced cost base of a property include the amount you paid for it together with some incidental costs associated with acquiring, holding and disposing of it (such as legal fees, stamp duty, and selling costs.) Maximising your cost base — by meticulously documenting every eligible acquisition cost, capital improvement, and disposal expense — directly reduces your taxable gain. This is a fundamental record-keeping discipline that should begin on the day of purchase, not the day you list the property for sale.

For healthcare professionals juggling clinical commitments, this level of administrative rigour may seem burdensome. Yet the financial impact of proper documentation can easily exceed $10,000–$20,000 in tax savings on a single disposal. Working with an independent buyer agent and a specialised accountant from day one becomes invaluable here — systems get put in place to capture every deductible cost without requiring your constant attention.

Important: Depreciation deductions claimed during the holding period reduce your cost base. If you've claimed depreciation deductions on your rental property, you need to understand depreciation clawback at the time of sale. Depreciation reduces the property's written-down value over time. When you sell, the ATO expects you to adjust your cost base by subtracting the total depreciation you've claimed, which increases your taxable capital gain. This interplay between depreciation and CGT is explored in detail in our guide on Property Depreciation Schedules for Doctors.

Understanding this relationship between depreciation benefits during ownership and CGT implications at disposal is central to long-term wealth strategy. Every dollar claimed in depreciation delivers an immediate tax benefit at your marginal rate, but it also increases your eventual capital gain. For high-income healthcare professionals, the mathematics typically favour claiming maximum depreciation — but only when the full lifecycle tax impact has been modelled in advance.

The 50% CGT Discount: The Most Powerful Concession Available to Individual Investors

There is a capital gains tax (CGT) discount of 50% for Australian resident individuals who own an asset for 12 months or more. This means you pay tax on only half the net capital gain on that asset.

For an asset to qualify for the CGT discount, you must own it for at least 12 months before the 'CGT event' happens.

If there is a contract to sell the asset, the CGT event happens on the date of the contract, not when you settle. Property sales usually work this way.

This last point is strategically important: the date you sign the contract of sale — not the settlement date — determines your CGT event and the financial year in which the gain is assessed.

For healthcare professionals with demanding clinical schedules, it's easy to focus on settlement as the "finish line" of a property sale. But from a tax perspective, the contract date is what matters. This distinction creates both opportunity and risk — opportunity to strategically time your CGT event, and risk if you inadvertently trigger a taxable event in a high-income year without planning for it.

How the 50% Discount Works in Practice

Step 1: Determine your capital gain by subtracting the cost base (purchase price, stamp duty, legal fees, and selling costs) from the sale price. Step 2: Subtract any capital losses from other investments. Step 3: Apply the 50% discount to the remaining gain if you qualify. Step 4: Report the discounted gain in your tax return under assessable income. For example, if your property sale produced a $180,000 gain after costs and you are eligible for the 50% discount, you only need to declare $90,000 as taxable income.

The mechanics are straightforward, but the implications for healthcare professionals are profound. Because you're likely paying tax at the top marginal rate, every dollar of capital gain reduction translates directly to 47 cents saved. The 50% CGT discount effectively halves your tax liability on property gains — making it one of the most valuable tax concessions available to high-income earners pursuing long-term wealth through strategic property investment.

Worked Example — Specialist Selling an Investment Property:

A cardiologist purchased an investment property for $750,000 in 2019 and sells it in 2025 for $1,100,000. After accounting for stamp duty, legal fees, agent's commission, and capital improvements, the net capital gain is $280,000.

• After applying the 50% CGT discount: $140,000 assessable gain
• At a 47% effective rate (45% + 2% Medicare levy): $65,800 in tax payable
• Without the 50% discount (if held fewer than 12 months): $131,600 in tax payable

The 12-month holding rule saves this doctor $65,800 in a single transaction — a number that dwarfs most other tax strategies available during the holding phase.

This isn't a theoretical example. We see healthcare professionals — particularly those in high-pressure specialties or undergoing career transitions — inadvertently selling properties within the 12-month window because of personal circumstances or market timing pressures. The financial cost of that decision is immediate and irreversible. Data-driven research and strategic planning at the acquisition stage should always include a realistic assessment of your minimum intended holding period.

Who Can Access the CGT Discount?

Trusts can access the 50% discount and may distribute the discounted capital gain to beneficiaries. Complying super funds receive a 33.33% CGT discount if the asset is held for at least 12 months. Companies can't use the discount. This has major implications for ownership structure decisions — a point covered in depth in our guide on Property Ownership Structures for Doctors.

The structure you choose at acquisition determines which CGT concessions you can access at disposal. For healthcare professionals, this decision should never be made in isolation. It requires integrated advice across tax, legal, and investment strategy — and it should align with your broader wealth objectives, career trajectory, and family circumstances. This is why conflict-free advice from an independent buyer agent, working in coordination with your accountant and financial planner, is essential from the outset.

The Main Residence Exemption: Full and Partial CGT Relief

Your main residence (your home) is exempt from CGT if you're an Australian resident and the dwelling has been the home of you, your partner and other dependants for the whole period you have owned it and hasn't been used to produce income — that is, you have not run a business from it, rented it out or 'flipped' it.

If you meet these conditions, you don't pay tax on any capital gain when you sell your home and you ignore any capital loss. If you don't meet all these conditions, you may still be entitled to a partial exemption.

For healthcare professionals, the main residence exemption is often more complex than it appears. Many doctors purchase their first home early in their career, then relocate for training, fellowship, or specialist positions. Others convert their home into an investment property when upgrading to a larger residence. In both scenarios, understanding how the main residence exemption applies — and how to preserve as much of it as possible — is critical to long-term wealth strategy.

The Partial Exemption: When Your Former Home Becomes a Rental

This is one of the most common scenarios for healthcare professionals — particularly those who convert their first home into an investment property when upgrading (covered in detail in our guide on Converting Your Home Into an Investment Property). When a property has served as both a principal residence and a rental, the CGT exemption is apportioned on a time basis.

The ATO's formula for the taxable portion is:

Taxable Capital Gain = Total Capital Gain × (Days as Income-Producing ÷ Total Days Owned)

For example: Peter is entitled to the main residence exemption from 1 July 2015 to 30 March 2025 (3,561 days). The assessable part of Peter's capital gain is calculated as follows: Capital gain for the entire period is $780,000 − $550,000 = $230,000. Peter's home was rented out for 1,003 days (1 October 2012 to 30 June 2015). Peter's total period of ownership was 4,564 days. Capital gain for the period that was rented out is $230,000 × (1,003 ÷ 4,564) = $50,545. Peter is entitled to the CGT discount of 50% which will reduce his capital gain. Peter's net capital gain would be $25,272.

This time-based apportionment means that every year you rent out a former home increases the taxable portion of your eventual capital gain. For healthcare professionals with strong capital growth properties in major metropolitan markets, the CGT liability on a former home can easily reach six figures if the rental period extends for a decade or more. Strategic planning — including whether to sell within the six-year absence window, move back in temporarily, or hold for the long term — should be informed by detailed financial modelling, not guesswork.

The 6-Year Absence Rule: A Critical Tool for Relocating Doctors

One of the most powerful and least understood CGT concessions available to Australian property owners is the six-year absence rule. The 6-year rule, or six year absence rule, extends the main residence exemption. It lets you treat your former home as your principal residence for up to six years after moving out, even if it is rented as an investment property. To qualify, the property must have been your home before you left. If you sell within the six year exemption period, you can generally claim a full main residence exemption from CGT, provided you have not nominated another property as your main residence during that time.

The rule can reset if you move back in, starting a fresh six year period.

This rule is particularly relevant to healthcare professionals who:

• Relocate interstate or regionally for training, fellowship, or specialist positions
• Take extended overseas placements or research sabbaticals
• Move between hospital catchments during registrar rotations

For time-poor, high-income earners in the medical profession, career mobility is common — and often necessary for professional advancement. The six-year absence rule ensures that this mobility doesn't automatically trigger a CGT liability on your former home, provided you plan strategically and understand the conditions.

Worked Example — Registrar Relocating for Fellowship:

Dr. Chen purchased her first home in Melbourne in 2018. In 2020, she moved to Brisbane for a two-year cardiology fellowship and rented out her Melbourne property. She does not purchase another home in Brisbane. In 2025, she sells the Melbourne property. Because the rental period was under six years and she did not nominate another property as her main residence, she can generally claim a full main residence exemption from CGT.

This is a real-world scenario we encounter regularly when working with healthcare professionals. The six-year absence rule transforms what would otherwise be a significant CGT liability into a tax-free disposal — but only if the conditions are met and the planning is done in advance.

If you don't use your former home to produce income (for example, you leave it vacant or use it as your holiday house), you can treat it as your main residence for an unlimited period after you stop living in it. This only applies if you aren't treating another property at the same time as your main residence.

This unlimited exemption for non-income-producing absences creates additional strategic flexibility. For healthcare professionals who can afford to leave a property vacant — or who use it occasionally as a holiday home — the main residence exemption can be preserved indefinitely, provided no other property is nominated as the main residence during that period.

What Happens When You Exceed Six Years?

Exceeding six years — if you rent the property for longer than six years without moving back in, the excess period becomes subject to CGT. The taxable amount is worked out on a time-based calculation, so you may only pay tax on a portion of the capital gain.

Healthcare professionals who anticipate extended absences should carefully model whether selling within the six-year window, or moving back in to reset the clock, is more financially advantageous than holding beyond it. 1Group Property Advisory assists medical professionals in modelling these scenarios based on individual career trajectories and property performance projections.

The decision to sell, hold, or move back in isn't purely financial — it also depends on your career plans, family circumstances, and long-term wealth objectives. But the financial impact of getting this decision wrong can easily exceed $50,000–$100,000 in unnecessary CGT. Data-driven research and conflict-free advice ensure you're making the decision that aligns with your unique situation, not a one-size-fits-all rule of thumb.

CGT Timing Strategies: Matching Disposals to Lower-Income Years

Because capital gains are added to your assessable income and taxed at your marginal rate, the financial year in which you sign a sales contract is one of the most controllable variables in your CGT outcome. For healthcare professionals, whose income can vary substantially across career stages, this is an actionable lever that most investors ignore.

If possible, time the sale of your property to occur in a financial year when your other income is lower (e.g., during a career break or retirement).

This is where the intersection of your clinical career and your property investment strategy becomes critically important. Unlike most property investors, healthcare professionals have predictable — and often planned — periods of lower income throughout their careers. Aligning property disposals with these periods can reduce your effective CGT rate by 15–17 percentage points, translating to tens of thousands of dollars in tax savings on a single transaction.

High-Income Years vs. Low-Income Years: The Doctor's Unique Opportunity

Stage 3 tax cuts (from 2024–25 onwards) lowered the bottom tax rate from 19% to 16%, decreased the 32.5% rate to 30%, raised the 37% lower threshold from $120,000 to $135,000 and raised the 45% lower threshold from $180,000 to $190,000.

This means a healthcare professional who typically earns $350,000 per year faces a 45% marginal rate on capital gains. But a doctor on parental leave earning $80,000 in a given financial year faces a marginal rate of 30% on the same gain — a difference of 15 percentage points, or $15,000 per $100,000 of discounted capital gain.

This isn't a marginal difference. For a property disposal generating a $200,000 discounted capital gain, the tax saving from timing the sale to coincide with a lower-income year can exceed $30,000. That's the equivalent of several years' worth of negative gearing benefits, achieved through a single strategic decision about contract timing.

Specific low-income scenarios for healthcare professionals where CGT timing becomes strategically valuable include:

• Parental leave: Many doctors, particularly those employed by hospitals, receive government-funded or employer-funded parental leave that significantly reduces total assessable income for that financial year.
• Sabbaticals and research years: An academic year or research fellowship may carry a substantially lower stipend than clinical practice income.
• Part-time transitions: Doctors reducing clinical hours before retirement often pass through a multi-year period of declining income, creating successive windows of lower marginal rates.
• Career transitions: Moving between hospital employment and establishing a private practice can create a transitional year of lower income.

Each of these scenarios represents a strategic opportunity — but only if you plan for it in advance. The contract date determines the CGT event, which means you need to be thinking about disposal timing at least 6–12 months before you intend to sell. For time-poor healthcare professionals, this level of advance planning requires systems and support — which is why working with an independent buyer agent and a specialised accountant from the outset of your property investment journey is so valuable.

Financial Year-End Contract Timing

The CGT event (the point at which you make a capital gain or loss) happens when you sign the contract of sale, not on the settlement date. This is critical for timing your sale to fall into a specific financial year.

In practice, this means a healthcare professional who anticipates a lower-income year starting 1 July should ensure the contract of sale is signed on or after 1 July, even if settlement occurs in August or September. Conversely, if the current financial year has already absorbed large deductions (e.g., significant negative gearing losses or concessional super contributions), completing the contract before 30 June may be preferable.

The mechanics of this timing strategy are straightforward, but the execution requires coordination across your real estate agent, your accountant, and your legal team. A delay of even one or two days — signing a contract on 29 June instead of 2 July — can shift tens of thousands of dollars in tax liability from one financial year to another.

Critical note: Discuss contract timing with your accountant before engaging an agent, not after accepting an offer. Once a contract is signed and dated, the CGT event is locked in.

For healthcare professionals accustomed to making high-stakes decisions under time pressure, this may seem like a minor administrative detail. But in the context of strategic property investment, contract timing is one of the highest-value decisions you'll make. The difference between signing a contract on 29 June versus 2 July can easily exceed the entire annual fee you pay for conflict-free advice from an independent buyer agent and a specialised accountant combined.

Offsetting Capital Gains: Using Capital Losses Strategically

If you have a net capital loss, you can't deduct it from your other income. However, you can carry it forward to reduce capital gains you make in future years.

Healthcare professionals who hold diversified investment portfolios — including shares, managed funds, or other assets — should audit their unrealised capital losses before finalising a property sale. Crystallising losses in the same financial year as a property gain can directly reduce the assessable amount.

This is a particularly valuable strategy for doctors with share portfolios that have underperformed or who hold investments purchased at market peaks. While capital losses can't be used to offset ordinary income, they can be used to offset capital gains — making them a powerful tool for reducing CGT liability on property disposals.

Example: A GP sells an investment property generating a $200,000 discounted capital gain ($100,000 assessable after 50% discount). She also holds shares with an unrealised loss of $40,000. By selling those shares before 30 June, she reduces her assessable capital gain to $60,000 — saving approximately $18,800 in tax at a 47% effective rate.

The key is to conduct this analysis before you sign the contract of sale, not after. Once the CGT event has occurred, your ability to offset it with capital losses is limited to losses realised in the same financial year or carried forward from previous years. Strategic planning — ideally coordinated between your accountant, your financial planner, and your independent buyer agent — ensures you're maximising every available offset before the CGT event crystallises.

For time-poor healthcare professionals, this level of portfolio coordination may seem complex. But the financial impact is material, and the process is straightforward when you have the right team in place. This is another example of why integrated, conflict-free advice across property, tax, and investment strategy delivers far better outcomes than working with siloed advisors who don't communicate with each other.

SMSF Property and CGT: The Pension Phase Advantage

For healthcare professionals approaching retirement, holding property inside a Self-Managed Super Fund (SMSF) offers a structurally superior CGT outcome. When an SMSF invests in property, the fund pays a concessional rate of 15% on rental income, and Capital Gains Tax liability may be reduced to 10% if the property is held for more than 12 months. Furthermore, properties held until retirement and disposed of in the pension phase can potentially be sold tax-free.

The contrast is stark: a specialist selling a property in their own name at a 47% effective rate versus selling the same property from an SMSF in pension phase at 0% CGT. This structural advantage is explored in full in our guide on Using an SMSF to Buy Investment Property.

For high-income earners in the medical profession, the SMSF pension phase advantage represents one of the most powerful wealth accumulation and preservation strategies available in the Australian tax system. But it requires long-term planning — properties need to be acquired inside the SMSF years or even decades before retirement, and the strategy must be coordinated with your broader superannuation, income, and retirement planning.

At 1Group Property Advisory, we coordinate with specialist SMSF accountants and advisors to ensure property acquisitions are structured with long-term CGT optimisation in mind, particularly for healthcare professionals in their peak earning years who are planning for retirement.

The decision to acquire property inside an SMSF versus in your own name isn't one-size-fits-all. It depends on your age, your superannuation balance, your borrowing capacity, your income trajectory, and your long-term wealth objectives. But for doctors in their 40s and 50s who are building long-term wealth through strategic property investment, the SMSF pension phase advantage is too significant to ignore. Data-driven research and conflict-free advice ensure you're making the decision that aligns with your unique circumstances, not a generic recommendation that may not suit your situation.

CGT and Ownership Structure: A Decision Made at Acquisition

The CGT outcome at disposal is largely determined by decisions made at the time of purchase. Ownership structure — individual, joint, trust, company, or SMSF — dictates which CGT concessions are available and how gains are distributed.

This is a fundamental principle of strategic property investment that many healthcare professionals overlook. The structure you choose on day one determines your tax outcomes on the day you sell — which may be 10, 20, or 30 years later. Changing ownership structure after acquisition is often prohibitively expensive or legally complex, which means getting it right at the outset is critical.

Key structural considerations:

Trusts can access the 50% discount and may distribute the discounted capital gain to beneficiaries — making a discretionary trust particularly powerful for healthcare professionals with a lower-income spouse or adult children who could receive a distribution and pay CGT at a lower marginal rate.

For healthcare professionals, discretionary trusts offer significant flexibility for income splitting and tax minimisation — but they also come with higher setup and administration costs, and they may not be suitable for all situations. The decision requires integrated advice across tax, legal, and investment strategy, and it should be made based on your individual circumstances, not generic assumptions about what "most doctors" do.

For a comprehensive analysis of structure selection, see our guide on Property Ownership Structures for Doctors.

The ownership structure decision is one of the most consequential you'll make in your property investment journey. It affects your CGT liability, your income tax during the holding phase, your asset protection, your borrowing capacity, and your estate planning. This is why conflict-free advice from an independent buyer agent, working in coordination with your accountant and legal advisor, is so valuable. The cost of getting this decision wrong — in terms of unnecessary tax paid over decades — can easily exceed six figures.

Key Takeaways

• When you sell or otherwise dispose of an asset, you can reduce your capital gain by 50% if you have held it for at least 12 months. This is called the capital gains tax (CGT) discount. For healthcare professionals at the top marginal rate, this single concession can save tens of thousands of dollars per disposal.

• If there is a contract to sell the asset, the CGT event happens on the date of the contract, not when you settle. Property sales usually work this way. Controlling the contract date is the most direct lever for managing which financial year a gain falls into — and for time-poor, high-income earners, this timing decision can be worth $20,000–$50,000 or more in tax savings.

• The 6-year absence rule extends the main residence exemption, letting you treat your former home as your principal residence for up to six years after moving out, even if it is rented as an investment property — a critical tool for healthcare professionals who relocate for training or fellowship.

• Selling in a lower-income year — such as parental leave, a sabbatical, or a part-time transition — can reduce the effective tax rate on a capital gain by 15–17 percentage points compared to a peak-income year. For a $200,000 discounted gain, this timing strategy alone can save over $30,000 in tax.

• Ownership structure determines CGT eligibility at the point of disposal. Trusts can distribute discounted gains to lower-income beneficiaries; companies receive no CGT discount at all; SMSF pension-phase disposals can be effectively tax-free. This decision is made at acquisition, not disposal — which is why strategic planning from day one is essential.

• Capital losses from other investments (such as shares or managed funds) can be used to offset capital gains from property disposals. For healthcare professionals with diversified portfolios, auditing unrealised losses before signing a sales contract can reduce CGT liability by tens of thousands of dollars.

• The interplay between depreciation claimed during ownership and CGT at disposal must be understood and modelled in advance. Every dollar of depreciation claimed reduces your cost base and increases your eventual capital gain — but for high-income earners, the mathematics typically favour claiming maximum depreciation during the holding phase.

Conclusion

Capital Gains Tax isn't a tax you manage when you sell — it's a tax you manage from the day you buy. For Australian healthcare professionals, whose high marginal rates amplify every CGT dollar, the strategies outlined in this article represent some of the highest-value financial decisions available across an entire investment career.

The 50% CGT discount rewards patience. The main residence exemption and six-year rule reward planning. And the ability to time a disposal to coincide with parental leave, a sabbatical, or a career transition is a uniquely doctor-specific opportunity that most generic investment advice fails to address.

These decisions don't exist in isolation. They interact with your ownership structure (see our guide on Property Ownership Structures for Doctors), your depreciation claims (see our guide on Property Depreciation Schedules for Doctors), and your long-term portfolio strategy (see our guide on Building a Property Portfolio as a Doctor). The most tax-efficient outcome at disposal is always the product of decisions made years earlier, with the right professional team in place from the beginning (see our guide on How to Choose a Property Investment Advisor, Mortgage Broker, and Accountant as a Doctor).

For time-poor, high-income earners in the medical profession, the complexity of CGT planning can feel overwhelming — particularly when you're balancing clinical commitments, family responsibilities, and professional development. But the financial impact of getting these decisions right is profound. A single well-timed property disposal, structured correctly and planned years in advance, can save you more in tax than you'll earn from several years of negative gearing benefits combined.

This is why strategic property investment for healthcare professionals requires more than generic advice. It requires data-driven research, conflict-free advice, and integrated planning across property acquisition, tax strategy, and long-term wealth objectives. It requires advisors who understand the unique career trajectory of doctors — the income volatility during training, the peak earning years in mid-career, the transition to part-time work or retirement. And it requires systems and support that work around your schedule, not the other way around.

1Group Property Advisory specialises in guiding medical professionals through every stage of the property investment lifecycle — from acquisition and structuring through to strategic disposal and CGT optimisation. Our approach integrates tax planning, portfolio strategy, and career-stage analysis to ensure that every decision made today supports your long-term wealth objectives.

We work exclusively with healthcare professionals because we understand your unique position: you have the income to build significant wealth through strategic property investment, but you don't have the time to manage the complexity yourself. You need independent, conflict-free advice from professionals who are accountable to you, not to property developers, lenders, or product providers. And you need a team that coordinates seamlessly across property research, acquisition, financing, tax planning, and ongoing portfolio management — so you can focus on what you do best.

If you're a healthcare professional looking to build long-term wealth through strategic property investment — or if you're approaching a property disposal and want to ensure you're optimising your CGT outcome — we invite you to speak with our team. Your property brief is the starting point: we take the time to understand your career stage, your income trajectory, your family circumstances, and your long-term wealth objectives. From there, we provide data-driven research, conflict-free advice, and end-to-end support from your property brief through to settlement and beyond.

Capital Gains Tax is one of the most significant costs you'll face as a property investor. But with the right planning, the right structure, and the right timing, it's also one of the most controllable. The strategies outlined in this article aren't theoretical — they're evidence-based, data-driven approaches that we implement with healthcare professionals every day. The question isn't whether these strategies work. The question is whether you have the right team in place to implement them on your behalf.

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