Over the past few years, the Federal Budget has remained relatively quiet on the superannuation (and SMSFs) front, mostly due to the Government’s election commitment to not tinker further with super. In this budget, we have seen the Government announce a number of proposed super measures – importantly, all positive that create greater flexibility with…
As we close what has been a year one like no other, we’ve seen a number of key measures finalised and become law throughout 2020. However, we’ve equally seen a range of announced measures that remain outstanding as we move towards 2021. The following table below provides a legislative stock take of the items impacting…
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…
The Federal Government appears to have made good on their previous election commitment to increase the number of members to a maximum of 6 within a SMSF. We have seen Treasury Laws Amendment (Self Managed Superannuation Funds) Bill 2020 introduced into the House of Representatives and moved swiftly in the Senate where it is more…
The Federal Government has announced revised a revised start date of 1 July 2021, deferring the commencement on two proposed actuarial red tape measures that were announced in last year’s Federal Budget. This revision are a result of the Government’s re-prioritisation of resources and the shortened parliamentary sitting period in 2020 due to the COVID-19…
