Having recently launched the ability to establish a new SMSF directly from within Simple Fund 360, we are pleased to advise that users can now order and incorporate a new special purpose trustee company. Referring to the ATO statistical data from 2017-18, more than 80% of new SMSFs are now established with a company as…
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In June 2020, we saw the Federal Government finalise legislative fixes to anomalies dating back to the super reform measures that commenced on 1 July 2017. These legislative adjustments included fixing the debit value that arises when a non-commutable, life expectancy or market linked income stream that is also a capped defined benefit income stream…
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We have progressively seen the Government make minor and technical amendments to the 2017 super reform measures to remove anomalies, correct unintended consequences and generally improve the quality of the laws. One area that has require such amendments has been to address excess transfer balance amounts that have arisen from previous capped defined benefit income…
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Common sense has prevailed with the scrapping by Treasury of the proposed changes to require financial reporting of SMSFs to be completed 45 days prior to the SMSF Annual Return. In our previous blog post, ‘proposing to move the goal posts for SMSF financials’ I wrote about the impact of these proposed measures and the…
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With the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) having recently published updated guidance on their expectations regarding compliance with SIS Regulation 4.09, we have made a small, but important additional feature for users in preparing an SMSF investment strategy report on the Smarter SMSF platform. From this ATO guidance, we have added two additional features now allowing…
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