"A SMSF needs growth assets such as shares but it also needs cash for at least two years' planned expenditure so it won't need to cash in good assets if the market is having one of its normal downturns."
Superannuation and taxation experts Smith and Koken have joined forces to put together Keep it super simple, a handy book which explains what you need to consider before setting up an SMSF, right through to closing it down.
The proposed 15% tax rate on every dollar of annual earnings over $100,000 generated by a superannuation pension could have painful tax consequences when a member of an SMSF dies.
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