Commutation

The ATO has released a determination, SMSFD 2014/1, discussing if partial and full commutations of a transition to retirement account based pension count against the minimum and maximum pension payments.

The ATO says that a partial commutation of a transition to retirement account based pension will count against the minimum pension payment amount, unless “the payment is rolled over within the superannuation system on or after 6 June 2009.” However a partial commutation does not count against the maximum pension payment amount for a transition to retirement pension, “unless the payment was made before 16 February 2008.”

This is contained in SMSFD 2014/1 Self Managed Superannuation Funds: does a payment made as a result of a commutation of an account based pension that is a transition to retirement income stream count towards the minimum and maximum annual payment amounts set out in the SIS Regulations for such a pension?

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