If you’ve been tracking the evolving world of legacy retirement products and their interaction with social security assessments, a key piece of the puzzle has just landed—the Social Security (Waiver of Debts – Legacy Product Conversions) Specification 2025. Released on 28 March 2025, this legislative instrument seeks to resolve an otherwise awkward policy conflict that…
As an early Christmas present and unexpected result for the Industry, Treasury Laws Amendment (Legacy Retirement Product Commutations and Reserves) Regulations 2024 were registered on the Federal Register of Legislation on 6 December 2024. In a nutshell it allows for the conversion of SMSF legacy pensions – complying lifetime, life expectancy (fixed term) and market…
The Labor Government as part of their election promise stated that it would not make any ‘major changes’ to superannuation in their first term of Government, other than to define what superannuation should exist for. The reality is that we have seen some key announcements by the Government, including the controversial proposal to introduce Division…
With the Government releasing Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions) Bill 2023 for consultation, much of the attention will rightly be given to the calculation of earnings, however, it’s one of the earnings adjustments that has caught my eye and whilst its exclusion is welcome you can’t help but wonder why the Government have…
The release of an exposure draft by Treasury for consultation has ultimately seen what was expected from within the SMSF industry – that is, the Federal Government wasn’t really interested in listening to many of the concerns about the proposed measures to better target superannuation concessions for individuals with balances above $3.0 million. The concerns…
