- February 21, 2020
- Technical Resource
- Death benefits
National Conference 2020 – Technical Paper
Often the focus of death benefit planning in SMSFs is around:
- Ensuring the death benefit end ups in the desired hands, whether that be by way of a BDBN or a reversionary pension or simply left to trustee discretionary powers;
- Optimising the tax position of a surviving spouse (ie optimising their transfer balance cap position), and / or;
- Minimising tax payable on any death benefit payments.
But there’s often many other things that should be considered before a member dies which could add significant value to the SMSF or the underlying beneficiaries, or prevent a massive headache for any surviving trustees, beneficiaries and even SMSF practitioners!
The contents of this resource are taken to be correct at the time of publication.
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