SMSF Australia Blog Articles

A pension commutation converts all or part of an SMSF pension into a lump sum or rolls it back to accumulation. Learn when you can commute and implications.

An SMSF pension pays periodic income from your own super not the government. Learn how account-based pensions work, minimum drawdown rates, and SIS rules

65 allows automatic unrestricted access to super however, shifting to pension mode when you turn 60 is possible but a “Condition of Release” must be met.

The cost to close an SMSF is $1,500 plus GST on top of any outstanding accounting/audit work for any years not completed.

SMSF benefits are generally tax-free from age 60. Learn how death benefits, dependant pensions, TRIS payments and early release conditions are taxed.

Your will doesn't control your super. How SMSF death benefits pass to a spouse, why binding nominations matter, and what happens if there's none.

Turning 65 gives you access to all of your super in your self-managed super fund (SMSF). Otherwise, you can access super before you turn 65 but there may be some

A SMSF release authority is an ATO notification instructing an SMSF to release money from the fund in relation to a member’s super. The ATO will send a release authority

Death, much like taxes, is inevitable and something your SMSF will eventually have to deal with.  It is important to understand how a death of a member is dealt with

Once you are part of a Self-Managed Super Fund, regardless as to why you became part of it, you cannot simply walk away and hope it goes away. As director