The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has decided to extend for a further 12 months the current transitional compliance approach set out in PCG 2020/5 to allow additional time to finalise its position on non-arm’s length expenditure (‘NALE’) within the NALI provisions (section 295-550 of the ITAA 1997). The ATO issued draft ruling, LCR 2019/D3 in…
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) has now registered SPR 2020/2 which applies to the trustee(s) of a SMSF where the fund acquires an in-house asset from a deferral of rental income under a lease due to COVID-19. This determination became effective from 27 November 2020. As a result of the financial impacts of COVID-19, some…
It has been a requirement for a SMSF to prepare financial statements with fund assets to their market value in accordance with SIS Regulation 8.02B since 1 July 2012. Prior to this regulation taking effect, unless the fund was paying a pension or held in-house assets, trustees could provide a valuation for fund assets every…
The topic of SMSF investment strategies remains at the forefront of both trustees and practitioners – we know this because approx. 23% of all documents ordered this year on the Smarter SMSF platform have been investment strategies, addressing key deficiencies in fund documents that need to satisfy an increased focus by auditors acting as the…
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…