Annual Compliance

Annual Compliance Requirements

Your SMSF must attend to certain annual reporting requirements each and every year. These include:

The above annual compliance requirements are the compliance requirements that an SMSF must attend to annually. Importantly ESUPERFUND attends to the above annual compliance requirements for your SMSF. You do not need to arrange for another accountant to prepare the above annual documentation as they are completed by ESUPERFUND.  Similarly the above documentation is covered by our annual fee. The process to prepare the annual compliance documentation for your SMSF is detailed as follows:

Electronic Data Received by ESUPERFUND

When you become a client of ESUPERFUND, an ANZ V2 Plus Account is established for your SMSF which will act as the Transaction Account for your SMSF. The Transaction Bank Account allows ESUPERFUND to electronically access the transactions made by your SMSF in order to attend to the SMSF Annual Compliance Requirements. That is at the end of each financial year, ANZ will send to ESUPERFUND an annual data file of all your SMSF Transactions. Similarly at the end of each financial year, EBROKING will send to ESUPERFUND an annual data file of all your SMSF Trades and Transactions. It is important to understand that only electronic data files are provided to ESUPERFUND. ESUPERFUND has absolutely no access to your Transaction Bank Account or Share Trading Platform and cannot actually log in to these Accounts.

Electronic Data Reviewed at Financial Year End

The Electronic Data received by ESUPERFUND is reviewed to determine what data we have and what data is additionally required to prepare the annual compliance documentation for your SMSF. In some cases the data will be available but additional information will be required. For example when a Contribution is made to your Transaction Bank Account we can view that the Contribution has been made. Typically the Member making the Contribution will be detailed on transaction Bank Statement. However to the extent that the narration on the Bank Statement is insufficient, ESUPERFUND may require additional details confirming on whose behalf the contributions have been made and the contribution type.

Annual Checklist released to all clients by 30 September

By 30 September each Financial year, an Annual Checklist is released in your ESUPERFUND Client Portal detailing the information we have for your SMSF and also advising what additional information is required from you. As detailed above most of the data is available as it has been received electronically. The Annual Checklist will guide you through additional information you need to provide. For example you may need to confirm on whose behalf contributions have been made and the contribution type as detailed above. Additionally you may need to provide details of Investments made by the SMSF which we cannot identify. For example if you make a Term Deposit with a Bank directly or a Property purchase, we will not have this information available. We will need documentation evidencing these types of external Investments at financial year end and will guide you on the documentation and information we require.

Checklist Information returned to ESUPERFUND

Once you have reviewed the Annual Checklist, you will need to collate the additional information and documentation requested (if any). Once collated the information will need to be submitted to ESUPERFUND. Checklist completion is the first step of your SMSF’s Annual Compliance process. It is noted that in the first year your SMSF is setup the SMSF must lodge its Tax Return by 28 February following the end of the Financial Year. In the second year and future years the SMSF must lodge its Tax Return by 15 May following the end of the Financial Year. Accordingly you should complete and submit the Annual Checklist at your earliest convenience to give us sufficient time to prepare and lodge the annual compliance documentation by the due date.

Compliance Documentation Prepared and available for you to Review and Sign

On receipt of the Annual Checklist information from you, ESUPERFUND will attend to the annual compliance documentation in the order in which the Online Checklist is submitted. An accountant will be assigned to your file and review the information provided by you in the Annual Checklist. If further information is required, we will contact you via the Client Portal Inbox. After we have completed the Annual Compliance Documentation for your SMSF, you will be notified to review the Compliance Documentation from your Client Portal. Once you are satisfied that the documentation is correct, you have to sign to authorise ESUPERFUND to lodge the tax return. If you have any queries about the documentation, please communicate with our office via your Client Portal Inbox.

Tax Return Lodged with ATO

Once you have signed the Electronic Lodgement Declaration, the Tax Return is lodged with the ATO. It is noted that in the first year your SMSF is setup, the SMSF must lodge its Tax Return by 28 February following the end of the Financial Year. In the second year and future years the SMSF must lodge its Tax Return by 15 May following the end of the Financial Year.

Tax Liability Paid by you (or Tax Refund Issued)

When the Tax Return has been completed at financial year end, ESUPERFUND will send the Tax Return to you for review and sign as detailed above. The Tax Return will also indicate the Tax Liability due and payable and the due date. In the first year your SMSF is setup the SMSF must pay its tax liability by 28 February following the end of the Financial Year. In the second year and future years the SMSF must pay its tax liability by 15 May following the end of the Financial Year. The tax liability must be paid from the Transaction Bank Account established for your SMSF. ESUPERFUND will provide you with the relevant BPAY details to arrange payment of the tax liability from your SMSF's Transaction Bank Account. Alternatively where your SMSF is entitled to a Tax Refund the Refund will be banked into your SMSF bank account by the ATO generally within 28 business days after the lodgement of the Tax Return. At this time the Annual Compliance Process will be completed.