The September 2024 edition of TechniView covers:

  • The New Aged Care Act
  • Amnesty to exit legacy pensions
  • First Home Super Savers changes
  • Latest downsizer contribution statistics.
  • Boost the age pension rates
  • Your questions answered.

The August 2024 edition of TechniView includes important information covering the following topics:

  1. Indexation of the transfer balance cap from 1 July 2025
  2. An extended “Your questions answered” section featuring:
  • Preservation
  • Home Equity Access Scheme
  • Downsizer Contributions
  • Use of home care Government support

The July 2024 edition of TechniView features the following:

  • Social Security measures that have become law,
  • Centrelink assessment of income generated from your home, and
  • Superannuation guarantee for high income earners.

The June 2024 edition of TechniView includes information on the following:

  1. Budget proposals commencing on 1 July 2024
  2. LRBA safe harbour interest rate for 2025
  3. Social security threshold increases from 1 July 2024
  4. Claiming a tax deduction for super contributions – getting it right
  5. Your questions answered – Division 293 tax.

The May 2024 edition of TechniView includes articles covering:

  • Division 296 Tax Update
  • HELP (HECS) Indexation
  • Intentionally reducing total superannuation balance (to get under the $500,000 threshold), and
  • The Home Equity Access Scheme and Aged Care Fees

The April 2024 edition of TechniView includes:

  • Introduction of Aged Care Act deferred
  • Start date for FHSS Scheme changes confirmed
  • Super and Tax threshold 2024/25
  • Minimum payment requirements – death benefit pensions
  • Centrelink assessment of self-contained living spaces

The March 2024 edition of TechniView is now available.

Topics include:
1. What’s news
a) Changes to Phase 3 tax cuts
b) Indexation of contribution caps
c) Division 296 tax on high superannuation balances
d) Age Pension Rates to increase from March 2024

2. Report of the Aged Care Taskforce

3. Your question answered – carrying forward the unused concessional contribution cap

The February 2024 edition of TechniView is now available.

Topics include:

1. What’s news

a) Changes to Phase 3 tax cuts

b) Transfer Balance Cap – no indexation

c) Push for adviser access to tax portal

2. When living together doesn’t mean you are a couple

3. Your question answered – deferred management fees

The January 2024 edition of TechniView includes information on:

  • Age pension age increases to 67,
  • Latest ATO guidance on deductibility of advice fees,
  • Compassionate grounds condition of release
  • Your question answered – Trap for non-residents selling their home

The November 2023 edition of TechniView includes information on:

  • Changes to the transfer balance cap calculation for defined benefit pensions,
  • An update on the amnesty for people wishing to exit legacy pensions,
  • Answers to frequently asked questions – test your knowledge.

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