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SMSF Succession Planning Day (Face-To-Face)

By on 02/10/2019 in Announcements, SMSF compliance, SMSF strategy, Succession planning, Taxation

On Wednesday 20 November 2019 DBA Network is holding a special, once-off SMSF Succession Planning Day (face-to-face). It will provide a practical, step-by-step guide on how to ensure that a member’s SMSF benefits are appropriately dealt with upon their incapacity or death. It is designed for financial planners, accountants, auditors, SMSF administrators and lawyers who want [read more]

Investment strategies –– what SMSF trustees must do

Investment strategies –– what SMSF trustees must do

By on 30/09/2019 in ATO, Audit, Investments, Licensing, SMSF compliance, SMSF deeds, SMSF strategy, Trustee education

Daniel Butler, Director ([email protected]), and Bryce Figot, Special Counsel ([email protected]), DBA Lawyers This article provides some background and some key points to SMSF investment strategies. What is an investment strategy? An investment strategy is a plan for making, holding and realising assets consistent with the investment objectives adopted by an SMSF trustee. An investment strategy [read more]

The $1.6 million transfer balance cap revisited

The $1.6 million transfer balance cap revisited

By on 24/09/2019 in Pensions, SMSF compliance, SMSF strategy, Taxation, Trustee education

By William Fettes ([email protected]), Senior Associate Introduction The $1.6 million transfer balance cap (‘TBC’) imposes a limit on the total amount that a fund member can transfer into an exempt (retirement phase) pension. The TBC was introduced with effect from 1 July 2017 with the intention of making the tax concessions in superannuation more sustainable [read more]

Reversionary pension v BDBN: which one wins?

Reversionary pension v BDBN: which one wins?

By on 22/08/2019 in SMSF compliance, SMSF deeds, SMSF strategy, Succession planning, Taxation, Trustee education

By Bryce Figot, Special Counsel, DBA Lawyers and Daniel Butler, Director There is a misconception that reversionary pension documentation will always apply before a binding death benefit nomination. If the SMSF deed is silent on the question, it can be entirely possible at times that the binding death benefit nomination (‘BDBN’) will apply before any [read more]

Is the superannuation guarantee system in need of an urgent overhaul

Is the superannuation guarantee system in need of an urgent overhaul?

By on 19/08/2019 in ATO, Contributions, SMSF compliance, SMSF strategy, Taxation, Trustee education

By Daniel Butler, Director ([email protected]), DBA Lawyers Employers are required to make the minimum superannuation guarantee (‘SG’) contribution for each employee to avoid a shortfall under the Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992 (Cth) (‘SGAA’). This appears to be a simplistic rule. If an employer does not provide the minimum SG contribution, significant penalties apply. The real issue [read more]

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Reversionary pension vs BDBN: which outcome is preferred?

By on 04/07/2019 in ATO, Pensions, SMSF deeds, SMSF strategy, Succession planning, Trustee education

Daniel Butler ([email protected]), Director and Bryce Figot ([email protected]), Special Counsel, DBA Lawyers Imagine a conflict between pension documentation and a binding death benefit nomination (‘BDBN’) in a self managed superannuation fund (‘SMSF’) context. For example, the pension documentation states that the pension is reversionary to the surviving spouse; however, the BDBN states that the death benefits [read more]

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DBA Lawyers’ SMSF governing rules

By on 28/06/2019 in Announcements, Pensions, SMSF compliance, SMSF deeds, SMSF strategy, Succession planning, Trustee education

Daniel Butler ([email protected]), Director, DBA Lawyers  Not only does DBA Lawyers have the best SMSF governing rules and related SMSF documents available, we offer many value added benefits that are not available elsewhere. Recent changes to DBA Lawyers’ SMSF governing rules The new and improved version of the DBA Lawyers’ SMSF governing rules come with [read more]

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Single touch payroll— are SMSFs covered?

By on 26/06/2019 in Announcements, ATO, Pensions, SMSF compliance, SMSF strategy, Taxation, Trustee education

By Daniel Butler, Director ([email protected]), DBA Lawyers What is Single Touch Payroll? The Single Touch Payroll (‘STP’) regime was introduced to provide the ATO with real time information on employer PAYG and superannuation obligations. It also provides employees with greater transparency of their salary and reportable superannuation and fringe benefit entitlements. From 1 July 2019, all employers, [read more]

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Can a surviving spouse claim their deceased spouse’s super when they are also the executor of their estate?

By on 21/06/2019 in SMSF strategy, Succession planning, Trustee education

Shaun Backhaus), Lawyer ([email protected]) and Daniel Butler, Director ([email protected]), DBA Lawyers  The recent case of Gonciarz v Bienias [2019] WASC 104 (‘Gonciarz’) continues a line of cases that consider the conflict that arises where a person acts as executor or administrator of a deceased estate while also applying to receive superannuation death benefits in their [read more]