Minimising death benefit taxes for your SMSF clients
Death benefit taxes can have a significant impact on your clients’ inheritance, but careful estate planning can help minimise the damage
Up-to-date, specialised strategy is core component of an SMSF professional’s arsenal. SMSF Adviser analyses and interprets regulatory and legislative changes to ensure the SMSF sector is kept informed on the tips, tools and best practice for serving SMSF trustees.
Death benefit taxes can have a significant impact on your clients’ inheritance, but careful estate planning can help minimise the damage
The opportunity to transfer an interest in a related trust or company remains an important option in structuring your client’s retirement ...
SMSF practitioners are still falling into basic compliance traps, and with ASIC keeping its eye firmly on the SMSF sector, practices may ...
SMSFs with non-commercial related-party loans are now aware of the deadline for fixing these arrangements, but the question is: will this be ...
Contribution reserving can be a powerful strategy. However, practitioners need to be aware of some of the difficulties and what impact the ...
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The Turnbull government has indicated superannuation is back on the table in terms of tax reform and that the government will consider ...
The death of a client is a tricky time for SMSF practitioners – for all sorts of reasons. Just one of these is the challenge of knowing ...
Despite the low interest rate environment, SMSF trustees are still hanging tight to their cash investments. How do you find the right home ...
Despite the persistent warnings, there continues to be a range of difficulties associated with binding death benefit nominations (BDBNs) so ...