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The new age TRIS –– tips and traps

Daniel Butler, Director, DBA Lawyers The transition to retirement income stream (‘TRIS’) entered a new era on 1 July 2017 where most members will want their TRIS to enter retirement phase as soon as possible to gain access to an earnings tax exemption. A new law has provided a roadmap for this TRIS reclassification, but [read more]

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Managing flexi pensions post 1 July 2017

Overview This article considers the impact of the transfers balance cap provisions on flexi pensions, being pensions that comply with reg 1.06(6) of the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Regulations 1994 (Cth) (‘SISR’). Importantly, flexi pensions do not fall within the definition of a capped defined benefit income stream for the purposes of the transfer balance cap provisions. [read more]

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Important trap: Payments above ABP minimum

By Daniel Butler, Director and Bryce Figot, Special Counsel, DBA Lawyers The new transfer balance cap causes a trap for SMSF pensioners who receive payments above the account-based pension (‘ABP’) minimum annual payment. For these pensioners, the capital supporting the pension(s) is reduced by the amount of the pension payments(s), including the amounts above the ABP [read more]

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Is there any benefit in commuting a market linked pension from 1 July 2017?

Market linked pensions and transfer balance cap provisions Where a market linked pension (‘MLP’) is being paid just before 1 July 2017, the MLP will fall within the definition of a capped defined benefit income stream for the purposes of the transfer balance cap provisions. Importantly, the total balance of an MLP commenced just before [read more]

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What’s the status of the transition to retirement income stream?

Daniel Butler ([email protected]), Director, DBA Lawyers The transition to retirement income stream (‘TRIS’) is entering a new era on 1 July 2017 where most will want the TRIS to enter retirement phase as soon as possible to gain access to an earnings tax exemption. A new law has provided a roadmap for this TRIS reclassification, [read more]

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DBA Lawyers’ SMSF deed

Daniel Butler ([email protected]), Director, DBA Lawyers Not only does DBA Lawyers have the best SMSF deed and documents available, we offer many value added benefits that are not available in other deeds. A review of a recent non-DBA Lawyers’ SMSF deed Before discussing some of the benefits of our SMSF deed, I summarise some review [read more]

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PCG 2017/6 — roll back relief for certain pre-1 July 2017 death benefit pensions

By William Fettes, Senior Associate and Daniel Butler, Director, DBA Lawyers On 22 May 2017, the ATO released a new practical compliance guideline PCG 2017/6 regarding commutation of pre-1 July 2017 death benefit pensions that are currently being paid to a surviving spouse where the spouse would like to retain commuted amounts of pension capital [read more]

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Impact of the superannuation reforms on market linked pensions

Transfer balance cap modifications As the Treasury Laws Amendment (Fair and Sustainable Superannuation) Act 2016 is now law, it is critical that advisers consider and discuss the implications of the superannuation reforms on market linked pension with relevant fund members before 30 June 2017. While the capped defined benefit income stream modifications apply to lifetime [read more]

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Understanding exempt current pension income (‘ECPI’) in view of super reforms

Co-authored by Daniel Butler, Director, DBA Lawyers Due to the complexity of the rules and the importance of complying with the law in relation to the pension exemption, we examine the two methods for calculating ECPI in respect of account style pensions (ie, account-based, allocated and market linked pensions) under the Income Tax Assessment Act [read more]