Investment strategies continue to remain a key focus area for the SMSF industry, in particular following the ATO’s updated guidance earlier in 2020. We’ve had a growing number of requests from our members and PAYG users of the Smarter SMSF platform about the requests from auditors to provide further evidence of the diversification requirement where…
Earlier in this year as most Australian’s we were through the first stage of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) we saw the Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg announce temporary regulatory relief in respect of online meetings and the electronic execution of documents for a further six months. You can read more about these announcements in our previous blog…
As part of the ATO’s response for SMSF trustees dealing with the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), it provided relief for funds with a compliant limited recourse borrowing arrangement (LRBA) that had a loan with a related party. This COVID-19 relief essentially allows for a SMSF that was complying with the ‘safe harbour’ for real property in…
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has recently published their SMSF statistical overview for 2017-18 which provides key insights from the published data about the health and performance of the SMSF sector. There’s always a lot of focus on some of ‘headline’ statistics, which this year was around operating expenses. The ATO has done some excellent…
The ability for people impacted by COVID-19 to gain early access to super has seen nearly two million applications made to super funds for payment under the compassionate ground due to coronavirus, representing approximately 1 in every 6 Australians in the workforce. Source: https://www.apra.gov.au/covid-19-early-release-scheme-issue-7 We’ve seen over this pandemic period, concerns with identity theft on…
