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Business News

SMSF Association CEO steps down

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Andrea Slattery has resigned from her role as SMSF Association chief executive.

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Compliance

NowInfinity to boost compliance features

Cloud-based specialist SMSF document provider NowInfinity will be enhancing its compliance support for advisers with a new service to be launched in March.

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Investments

SMSF interest in IPOs likely to lift

The current low interest environment facing SMSF members is likely to encourage them to consider allocating more money toward initial public offerings (IPO), the partner of an accounting firm has said.

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Compliance

Urgent LRBA action required

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A specialist superannuation law firm has urged financial advisers to review the situation of their SMSF clients who have a non-bank limited recourse borrowing arrangement (LRBA) before the 31 January deadline.

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Regulation

TPB addresses cloud-based issues

The Tax Practitioners Board (TPB) has issued a practice notice clarifying how tax agents are expected to manage cloud-based activities in the servicing of clients.

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Regulation

Laws may trigger advice need for new group

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The prescribed treatment of superannuation death benefits under the recently passed superannuation legislation could activate demand for financial advice from elderly widows or widowers, according to an accounting firm partner.

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Documentation

Pressure on for timely record-keeping

A specialist superannuation lawyer has warned financial advisers and accountants to ensure their SMSF clients have up-to-date fund information to determine whether their pension balances are over the $1.6 million transfer balance cap at 30 June this year.

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ATO

ATO conciliatory over online outages

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The ATO has announced it will not enforce any penalties SMSFs may have incurred due to the outage experienced by the regulator’s online services at the end of last year.

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Compliance

Contributions procedures to be streamlined

The method SMSF trustees and members must follow to be able to claim a tax deduction for contributions is to be monitored and likely fine-tuned in the foreseeable future.

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ATO

Relaxed fixed trust view to assist SMSFs

New draft guidelines changing the ATO’s interpretation of what constitutes a fixed trust may help the tax treatment of trust distribution income for SMSFs, according to a specialist law firm.

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