Category: News articles

accountantsGPS – Adding Value to Your Practice

Sponsored Content provided by accountantsGPS | Proud partner of the SMSF Association Webinar provided by accountantsGPS exclusively for SMSF Association members: Adding value to your practice with digital financial advice […]

LRBA safe harbour interest rates set to increase on 1 July 2023

With 1 July just around the corner, it’s important for SMSF trustees with a limited recourse borrowing arrangement (LRBA) to start planning for the increased liquidity pressures resulting from the […]

Restructuring Market-Linked Pensions (MLPs) – The wait for a commutation authority continues

The ATO have updated their website to reset the expectations of taxpayers who have restructured a MLP and are waiting on a commutation authority to be issued before they can […]

accountantsGPS – Australia’s First Digital SMSF Check-Up

Sponsored Content provided by accountantsGPS | Proud partner of the SMSF Association Best Practice SMSF recently caught up with George Haramis from Fintech business accountantsGPS, to discuss their new platform, […]

$3m super tax cap will hit farmers’ finances

First published in the Financial Review on 15 June 2023. Agricultural landowners are often asset rich and cash poor – which is why they will be gravely disadvantaged by the […]

ATO UPDATE: Restructuring market-linked pensions

With the introduction of the transfer balance cap regime, a market-linked pension that was commuted and restarted on or after 1 July 2017 may have resulted in the member exceeding […]

accsource – 10 ways for SMSF managers to promote efficiency and save time

Sponsored Content provided by accsource | Proud partner of the SMSF Association Managing SMSFs can be time-intensive, in order to stay competitive and deliver the best possible service to clients, […]

Do this after June 30 and you could boost your super by $110,000

First published in the Financial Review on 17 May 2023. Getting the timing right on contributions is just one of a host of things SMSF members need to pull together […]

Technical Newsletter: Edition 1

Edition 1 January 2023 – April 2023 Compiled by the SMSF Association’s technical team, this Technical Newsletter provides a snapshot of key SMSF legislative and technical developments which have occurred […]

One of these four things could push you over the planned $3m super cap

First published in the Financial Review on 26 April 2023. Capital gains tax liabilities and a sudden surge in asset prices just before June 20 are just two of them. […]