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Compliance & Regulation

New trustee duty to complicate compliance

Best financial interests SMSF

The trustee duty amendment to the Your Future, Your Super bill recent passed in parliament will make SMSF compliance more difficult with investments in certain conventional asset classes.

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Compliance & Regulation

Poor trustee history can close SMSFs

SMST trustee compliance history

The inclusion of a trustee with a poor compliance history can create future problems for an SMSF and lead to the ATO making the fund non-compliant.

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ATO, Compliance & Regulation

ATO clarifies penalty stance

ATO SMSF trustee penalties

ATO case officers must have defensible reasons for imposing multiple penalties on an SMSF trustee, new guidelines have revealed.

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ATO, Compliance & Regulation

Trustee steps to shape penalties

trustee penalties

The ATO will consider the consistency of a trustee’s behaviour in determining when penalties for breaches will be waived under newly released guidelines.

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Compliance & Regulation

ATO using compliance to assess trustee incapacity

ATO trustees incapacity

Compliance procedures are being used by the ATO to discover potential incapacity issues suffered by SMSF trustees as they get older.

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Compliance & Regulation, Tax

TPB bans tax agent for SAN fraud

tax agent SAN misuse

A Queensland-based tax agent has been banned for four years following a TPB investigation into SAN misuse.

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Compliance & Regulation

No charge for AFCA complaints

AFCA fee complaint

Consumers have been reminded they do not need to pay a fee to lodge a complaint with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority.

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ATO, Compliance & Regulation, Superannuation

Early access problems explained

early access SMSF

SMSFs unable to secure early access to their funds are likely to have outstanding returns, according to the ATO.

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ATO, Compliance & Regulation

A new break for LRBAs

LRBA structure

SMSF trustees may soon have more ways to structure limited recourse borrowing arrangements without breaching the Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act due to a new ATO legislative instrument.

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ATO, Compliance & Regulation

ATO rent relief stance announced

ATO rent relief COVID-19

The ATO has confirmed it will not take action against SMSFs providing tenants with rent reductions due to the impact of COVID-19.

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