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Administration, SMSF, Trusts

Financials insufficient for some valuations

SMSF valuations

Audited financial statements do not provide sufficient information on which to base the valuation of unlisted securities or investments in a unit trust, but events during the financial year may provide the required data.

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Trusts

Judgment has lost trust deed implications

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A recent appeal in family trust matter highlights the need for SMSFs to address gaps in their fund’s deed history before lawyers are involved.

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Trusts

EPOA regarding incapacity tricky

EPOA incapacity

The process of having an enduring power of attorney act on behalf of an SMSF trustee experiencing incapacity is not necessarily simple.

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Trusts

Tread carefully on overpaid present entitlements

SMSF overpaid present entitlement

SMSFs receiving an overpaid present entitlement must step carefully to prevent it being treated as a borrowing and breaching superannuation law.

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Property, Trusts

Unit trust loans may fail sole purpose test

trust loans sole purpose

Using loans from a unit trust to allow SMSF trustees to purchase property which is then secured by a mortgage is likely to breach the sole purpose test.

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Compliance, Documentation, Trusts

Trustee company deregistration suboptimal

Corporate trustee deregistered.

SMSFs face several adverse consequences should a fund’s corporate trustee directors allow the company in question to be deregistered by ASIC.

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Trusts

Automated trusts address service, staff issues

Automated trust management

The use of automated trust management services can boost service levels and address staff shortages for accounting and advisory businesses.

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Trusts

13.22C relief tested during COVID

13.22C relief

Regulatory and compliance relief for 13.22C breaches could be introduced after they were given a live test as part of COVID-19 relief measures.

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Documentation, Trusts

Modern trustee documents required

corporate trustee documents

SMSFs with a corporate trustee must ensure the fund has a company constitution that will allow the most current strategies to be implemented.

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Trusts

13.22C trust rules easy to breach

13.22c trust rules

Advisers must be aware circumstances such as an overdrawn bank account can cause a contravention of the SIS regulation 13.22C trust rules.

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