The government has announced today (22 March) the second round of measures as part of its economic response to the coronavirus. This includes a range of measures that have a direct impact on superannuation, which includes: Temporary early release of superannuation Temporarily reducing super minimum drawdown rates Reducing social security deeming rates This blog post…
The government has announced today (22 March) the second round of measures as part of its economic response to the coronavirus. This includes a range of measures that have a direct impact on superannuation, which includes: Temporary early release of superannuation Temporarily reducing super minimum pension drawdown rates Reducing social security deeming rates This blog…
In our blog post titled, ‘once indexation starts, let the fund begin’ on 2 December 2019, we spoke about the potential for indexation of the general transfer balance cap (‘general cap’) where the CPI figure for December 2019 is 116.9 or higher. Well, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ CPI figure released on 29 January 2020…
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has recently provided updated guidance on their website regarding the cashing requirements as a reversionary pension from a death benefit. In particular, this update provides some ‘concession’ for beneficiaries where for some reason the minimum pension is failed during an income year. Where the minimum pension has not been met…
Now that we finally have some legislative certainty around various aspects of paying a Transition to Retirement Income Stream (TRIS), the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has issued Guidance Note, GN 2019/1 that provides guidance on the changes to transition-to-retirement income streams that commenced from 1 July 2017. How they apply within the APRA-regulated environment as…
