It’s been long awaited, but Treasury has finally released for consultation an exposure draft that proposes to effect two changes in respect to the exempt current pension income (ECPI) rules for the 2021-22 financial year: Removing the current unnecessary requirement to obtain an actuarial certificate to determine ECPI where 100% of the fund’s assets are…
In our wrap-up blog post, ‘how SMSFs fared in the Federal Budget 2021‘ we explored the various measures announced by the Federal Treasurer that impact superannuation and SMSFs. As a follow-up, Smarter SMSF hosted a webinar on these proposed budget measures on Friday, 14 May 2021. You can watch the recording of this session below:…
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…
