Articles by Darin Tyson-Chan

Compliance, SMSF, Trusts

Trust overpayment can be compliant

Unit trust distribution SMSF

Appropriate accounting treatment of an overpayment of a unit trust distribution to an SMSF can prevent the situation from being a compliance breach.

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Contributions, Pensions, Tax

Pensions can stop some deductions

tax deduction pension personal contributions

SMSF members need to complete all of the compliance procedures to claim a deduction for a personal contribution before they start a pension.

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Estate Planning, Trusts

Corporate trustee control crucial in death

SMSF corporate trustee shares

Determining the ownership of shares in an SMSF corporate trustee company when a member dies is critical to effective estate planning.

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Business News, Markets, Property

Household Capital grows funding capability

Home equity release

Household Capital has increased the size of its home equity release funding pool through a deal with Pacific Equity Partners Capital Solutions.

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ATO, Compliance, Pensions, SMSF, Superannuation

SMSF reserves under control

Superannuation reserves

The ATO has seen the number of reserves being used by SMSFs significantly diminish and no longer regards this as a concerning compliance issue.

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Administration, Investments, SMSF

Concept of control defined

SMSF trustee control

The concept of control sought by SMSF trustees has been more specifically clarified by the latest research into the sector.

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Compliance, SMSF, Trusts

Year end not trust payment deadline

SMSF trust distribution payment deadline

Trust distributions payable to SMSFs must be paid as soon as possible after the amount involved has been determined so as to eliminate compliance risk.

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BDBNs, Trusts

Death benefit protection imperative now

BDBN testamentary trust death benefit

The prevalence of legal claims against deceased estates is making death benefit measures such as BDBNs and testamentary trusts more critical for SMSF members.

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Residential Property, SMSF

Airbnb rental is not a business

SMSF business AirBnB

Renting out an SMSF residential investment property using Airbnb does not qualify as a situation where the trustee is running a business.

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Pensions, Retirement

Paperwork key for new year pensions

retirement phase pension paperwork

Documentation noting the situation of an SMSF member can allow a pension to be started on 1 July without knowing all of the fund’s asset values.

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