A recent private binding ruling has reiterated the stringent conditions applied to qualify for death benefit dependant.

Australians have changed their retirement expectations over the past 12 months, with higher living costs creating a ...

Last year, the ATO analysed its own data and identified more than 16,000 SMSFs that reported assets such as property and ...

The December 2024 changes opened the door for many SMSFs to allocate all of their reserves without anything being checked ...

Victoria’s vacant residential land tax (VRLT) has undergone several changes since it was first introduced on 1 January 2018.

“The integration means that existing Class Super customers, including accountants and financial advisers, can easily link ...

The latest set of financial advice reforms have been released with some key measures not making the pre-election cut.

Accounting firm BDO has recommended that the government review the superannuation contribution caps, including increasing the ...

The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) statistics show that SMSF assets under management stood at $1.02 trillion in the ...

SMSFs have a choice of claiming ECPI using segregated and proportionate methods at the same time, a leading technical expert ...

If a member dies intestate without having made a binding death nomination, the administrator of the estate cannot receive ...

The benefits of an SMSF making a voluntary disclosure to the ATO typically outweigh the risks, a leading legal practitioner ...