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If you are overwhelmed with bad debts or credit, do not despair. There is a way out of that debt trap and it is called debt swap, which is simply turning bad debt into good debt. In taxation jargon, it is converting debts that are non-deductible into tax-deductible debts.

In more formal or official parlance, debt swaps refer to the exchange of debt, in the form of a loan or securities other than shares, for a new debt contract or the exchange of debt for equity shares. Debt swaps often require writing down or discounting the value of the original debt instrument before the conversion to new debt or equity.

More and more people are people are turning to debt swap to sort out their financial situation. The most common practice is make debts tax-deductible. There are two kinds of bad debts, business and non-business. A business bad debt is deductible, in part or in full, from gross income when figuring a person’s taxable income. Non-business bad debts cannot be deducted from one’s gross income.

So how does debt swap works? Basically, two transactions are required to do a debt swap. The first one is liquidating or cashing in on your investments to pay off your bad debts. The second step is securing an investment loan in the same amount as your bad debts to replace your investments. Basically, it is just reclassifying debts into investments. Through this process, the interest rate will not only be lower but will also become tax-deductible.