Update For Super Guarantee ATO’s new super guarantee requirements From 1 January 2020, if you make super contributions for your employees under an effective salary sacrifice arrangement: You must calculate your super guarantee obligation based on your employee’s ordinary time earnings base You cannot count salary sacrifice contributions towards the minimum amount of super guarantee …
ATO’s new STP can follow up late SG payments The ATO’s Deputy Commissioner, Superannuation and Employer Obligations, James O’Halloran, has announced in a speech to the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) that with the ATO’s new STP-enabled “unprecedented level of visibility” of transactional data, especially on super information, that it is focusing on using …
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Contribution splitting If your partner is earning a low income or taking time off work for caring responsibilities, then it’s likely they’re not contributing much super. This means their super can fall behind. However, there are ways you can help your partner’s superannuation continue to grow. You can do this by: Making a Spouse Contribution …
Unused concessional contributions – can they be carried forward? The income year of 2019-20 has just ticked over, which is also the first year in which an individual is able to make additional catch-up contributions to super through the application of unused concessional (before tax) contributions. These are “unused” if the fund member made less …
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Taxpayers, it’s time to review superannuation contributions With the end of the financial year fast approaching, it is time for you as a taxpayer to review your superannuation contribution strategy. This 5 point checklist provides a basic list of items for you to review. You may have additional considerations depending on your personal circumstances. But …
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