Technically Speaking: Intermediary Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangements (LRBAs) and the Total Superannuation Balance (TSB)

  • Technically Speaking
  • Investment standards

Since the ATO confirmed that an investment in a related trust connected with an intermediary Limited Recourse Borrowing Arrangement (LRBA) can be complying and excluded from the in-house asset rules, there has been uncertainty relating to how an intermediary LRBA impacts on a member’s Total Superannuation Balance (TSB).

This Technically Speaking bulletin looks at:

  • What is a complying intermediary LRBA;
  • The ATO’s view on the operation of the TSB provisions;
  • How the LRBA and TSB rules interact, and;
  • The importance of managing a member’s TSB.

The contents of this resource are taken to be correct at the time of publication.

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