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The Australian Taxation Office has extended the reprieve for SMSFs who effectively break SMSF laws by giving or receiving COVID-19-related relief.
Due to the virus’s ongoing financial impacts, fund trustees or related parties may still have “to provide or accept certain types of relief, which may give rise to contraventions under the super laws”, the ATO says.
In recognition of this, the ATO says it’ll effectively ignore SMSFs’ failure to comply with those laws in 2021–22.
This compliance relaxation, which applied in 2019–20 and 2020–21, covers the following types of relief:
The rental relief (including rental reductions, waivers and deferrals) must be:
The ATO says a rental deferral offered by the fund or a related party will not cause a loan or investment to be an in-house asset in the current and future financial years.
The loan repayment relief must be:
If the SMSF has a limited recourse borrowing arrangement in place with a related party and the lender offers loan-repayment relief, the ATO says it will accept that the parties are dealing with each other at arm’s length.
In other words, the repayments will not be treated as non-arm’s length income (NALI) and taxed at the maximum rate of 45%.
Funds that exceeded the 5% in-house asset threshold at 30 June 2021 must prepare a written plan to reduce the market value of the fund’s in-house assets to below 5% by 30 June 2022.
That said, the ATO will not punish any breaches — for example, if markets don’t recover and the plan can’t be executed; or if markets recover and the plan turns out to be unnecessary.
If SMSF members are stranded overseas due to COVID-19 for more than two years, their fund is at risk of breaching the SMSF residency rules.
However, the ATO says it will not investigate any breaches, “provided there are no other changes in the SMSF or your circumstances affecting the other residency conditions”.
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