- July 28, 2021
- Presentations, Technical Resource
- Death benefits, Superfund taxation
Technical Summit 2021
The death of a member poses a number of significant challenges, issues and strategy considerations for practitioners to work through with their SMSF clients.
In this workshop, Peter and Aaron will take a practical lens to a number of topics that need to be contemplated in paying a super death benefit from within a SMSF, including:
- Transfer balance cap & dealing with insurance proceeds;
- Utilising the future service benefit deduction;
- Obligations of the fund in paying super death benefits, and;
- Other opportunities available for surviving beneficiaries.
At the end of the session, you will be able to:
- Explain how insurance proceeds are treated under the transfer balance cap rules and associated strategies;
- Understand how to calculate a future service deduction and the criteria that must be satisfied;
- Explain the trustee obligations when paying a death benefit from the fund, and;
- Outline a range of death benefit strategies for surviving beneficiaries.
Death really complicates things: Everything from caps, tax and future service deductions to death benefit nominations and beneficiaries
The contents of this resource are taken to be correct at the time of publication.
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