News

Accounting, Estate Planning, Financial Planning

Wealth transfer body to formally launch

SAPEPAA launch

The Succession, Asset Protection and Estate Planning Advisers Association (SAPEPAA) will formally launch this week about a year after its formation was first flagged.

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ASIC

La Trobe ordered to pay ASIC penalty

La Trobe ASIC penalty

The Federal Court has ordered La Trobe Asset Management to pay a significant penalty for false or misleading advertising regarding a credit fund.

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NALI/NALE

NALE detection could be difficult

NALE identification

Detecting non-arm’s-length expenditure situations may not be straightforward, regardless of examples provided in Law Companion Guide 2021/2.

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ASIC, Business News

Move made to freeze Dixon penalty payment

Dixon Advisory penalty

A class action law firm has attempted to stop Dixon Advisory and Superannuation Services from paying a $7.2 million penalty to the government.

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Documentation

EPOAs not automatic solution

EPOA SMSF trustee incapacity

An enduring power of attorney is the best way to address the incapacity of an SMSF trustee, but they are powerless unless applied correctly.

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ATO

ATO seeks input on extended rent relief

ATO relief trustees

The ATO has encouraged trustees and advisers to provide input on plans to extend COVID-19 rent relief measures where a fund has been providing rent relief to tenants.

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Accounting

AFCA gets tick of approval

AFCA review

AFCA has been found to be operating effectively and meeting its statutory obligations after its first mandatory government review.

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Regulation, Superannuation

Separation doesn’t mean SMSF exit

SMSF separation

Spousal separation by law does not have to result in the exit of one member from an existing SMSF, regardless of practical implications.

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Superannuation

State can act for trustee without capacity

SMSF trustee capacity

A member who has lost capacity within a corporate trustee SMSF may be able to have the state represent them.

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Estate Planning

Courts focus on BDBN form over substance

courts BDBN form

The wording of a BDBN, rather than its intention, will be what is tested in court in the event there is a dispute about the outcome of the nomination.

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