The 2024 financial year is the time period for trustees to make voluntary contributions to superannuation funds as a number of key events have converged to boost their usefulness, according to a technical expert. BT Academy technical consultant Matt Manning highlighted 2023/24 was the last year trustees could make use of accrued unused concessional super contribution caps from the 2019 financial year when the mechanism was first initiated. To illustrate

At the SMSF Association (formerly SPAA) National Conference held last month in Melbourne, the ATO confirmed that they are taking a new approach to when an Auditor Contravention Report (ACR) is lodged for an SMSF. The ATO will now telephone trustees of SMSFs (or directors where there is a trustee company) when they receive an ACR to confirm that the trustees or directors are aware that a breach was identified, as well as query why it