Articles by Darin Tyson-Chan

Auditing

Auditors should stay with annual cycle

A specialist lawyer has suggested a statement contained in the discussion paper addressing the proposal allowing certain SMSFs to move to a three-yearly audit cycle gives practitioners the opportunity to continue to solely provide annual auditing services.

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Financial Planning, Strategy

Aussiegolfa case sends advice warning

The full court of the Federal Court’s ruling in favour of the appellant in Aussiegolfa Pty Ltd (Trustee) v Commission of Taxation should be seen as a sign for advisers to take care over recommending certain strategies to SMSF clients, a sector lawyer has said.

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ASIC, Auditing

SMSF auditor struck off register

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has banned a New South Wales-based practitioner from being an SMSF auditor after he was found to have breached the independence requirement by which he was bound.

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Residential Property

DomaCom gets Federal Court victory

Fractional property investment house DomaCom has had the full Federal Court hand down a favourable decision with regard to the leasing to a related party of a property held in a sub-fund where an SMSF is the owner of units in the sub-fund.

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Regulation, Strategy, Superannuation

SMSFs must keep constant NALI watch

SMSF advisers and trustees must be mindful of the new non-arm’s-length income (NALI) rules when assessing fund strategies so as not to pay maximum levels of taxation, a sector expert has said.

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ATO, Compliance, Regulation

TBAR a potential TSB solution

It may be beneficial for SMSF members to calculate and record their total super balance (TSB) as at 30 June 2017 via a transfer balance account report (TBAR) rather than by way of the fund’s annual return, particularly if their retirement savings assets are close to $1.6 million, a technical expert has said.

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ATO, Retirement, Superannuation

ATO rectifies market-linked pension anomaly

The ATO has announced a common-sense solution to the unintended consequences of its treatment of situations where a market-linked pension has been commuted and subsequently restarted in relation to an individual’s transfer balance cap.

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Superannuation

WAM fights banning of franking credit refunds

Fund manager Wilson Asset Management has started a petition enlisting the support of its clients and any other interested investors to rally against the Labor Party’s proposal to make certain Australians ineligible for imputation credit refunds. Speaking at the 2018 Australian Investors Association National Conference on the Gold Coast last week, Wilson Asset Management lead […]

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Regulation

SMSF Association backs renaming of general advice

The SMSF Association has given its full support to the Productivity Commission’s recommendation to rename the term ‘general advice’.

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Commercial Property, Regulation, Residential Property

Call for more property spruiking barriers to entry

The SMSF Association has called for the introduction of increased barriers to entry for SMSF property spruikers as a method of reducing the incidence of inappropriate advice involving fund establishment for the purpose of purchasing residential real estate via limited recourse borrowing arrangements (LRBA).

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