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Best SMSF Accountants Sydney Australia SMSF or the Self-Managed Super Fund is a way to create wealth for retirement.

With SMSF, you can take control of your retirement savings fund and is responsible for managing and following the rules set by the regulator or the SIS act. You can pool your money with other members and invest the pooled money collectively by following the rules and regulations. To be considered an SMSF, your fund needs to have a trustee and the maximum of 6 members, who are considered as the trustees of the fund or the directors of the trustee company, where the trustees are not paid for their services towards the fund.

Benefits of SMSF SMSF is taking the do-it-yourself route towards managing your retirement money and superannuation fund. The main benefits of SMSF are investment choice as they provide range of investment options by following rules of the SIS act, tax benefits from concessional tax rates in the accumulation phase being 15 percent and, in the pension, phase no tax payable. Rules needs to be followed for these and also how much can be transferred to the pension phase and these percentage can vary in some situations. SMSFs have costs and need to lodge tax return annually and needs to be audited as well. As the SMSF grows the more cost effective it can be depending on the related investments and the costs for the professional services.

Compliance and Tax Return The most important parts of an SMSF can be abbreviated as “CART” i.e., Compliance, Administration, Reporting and Tax. The Australian Taxation Office has put a lot of


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