Articles by Jason Spits

Business news

Leading service providers named

service provider awards

Smstrusteenews and research house CoreData have announced the winners of the SMSF Service Provider Awards 2021, which were presented during a recent online event.

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ATO, Compliance & Regulation

ABR updated to allow six-member funds

ABR six member

Updates to the Australian Business Register (ABR) to allow the creation of six-member SMSFs are complete and will replace an interim process offered by the ATO.

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ETFs

SMSFs stick with ETFs, but shift focus

SMSFs ETFs

SMSF investors have been long-term users of ETFs, but market expansion has changed how they use them within their portfolios.

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Estate Planning

SuperStream hits death benefits

SuperStream death benefit

Death benefit rollovers will be treated differently under SuperStream from 1 October, depending on who the beneficiary is in the eyes of the ATO.

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Auditing, Documentation

Detailed asset valuation evidence needed

Asset valuation evidence

The evidence used to justify the market valuation of an asset must be more detailed and provided to auditors under new guidance from the ATO.

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Australian Shares, International Shares

Share markets hang on vaccines, inflation

Share market vaccines inflation

The performance of share markets will depend on the rollouts of COVID-19 vaccines and the avoidance of inflation in economies that are reopening.

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ATO, Tax

ATO’s NALE position finalised

NALE nexus income

The ATO has released its final ruling on the treatment of NALE and will continue to view the expenses as having a nexus to all of a super fund’s income.

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Retirement, Superannuation

Retirement income covenant captures SMSFs

retirement income superannuation

The retirement income covenant will apply to all super funds, including SMSFs, and will carry similar obligations to those required for investment strategies.

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Investments

Stock choice important in dividend revival

stock choice dividend

While some stocks may pay dividends this year, investors have been warned not to rely on old favourites and to look at underlying profitability as well.

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Superannuation

Service providers back up trustee tasks

SMSF service providers

The past year has highlighted that while SMSF trustees can administer and run their fund themselves, having an able service provider makes that task much easier.

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