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To recognize how much you are actually paying in superannuation costs, you have to demystify the different means products and funds define them. In June 2004 the SIS Act and Rules were changed to call for all superannuation trustees to apply to become a Registrable Superannuation Entity Licensee (RSE Licensee) on top of that each of the superannuation funds the trustee runs is additionally required to be registered.

Aside from a few really specific stipulations in the Superannuation Sector (Supervision) Act 1993 (largely related to investments in possessions related to the company or influencing a self-managed superannuation fund) funds are exempt to specific possession demands or financial investment guidelines.

Division 293 tax (additional tax on concessional payments) is payable if earnings for additional charge purposes (besides reportable superannuation payments), plus concessionally exhausted superannuation contributions (also called low tax obligation contributions) are more than $250,000.

The Howard government also limited company SG payments from 1 July 2002 to a staff member's ordinary time revenues (OTE), that includes incomes and incomes, in addition to bonus offers, payments, shift loading and informal loadings, yet does not include overtime paid.

Special guidelines apply in connection with companies running" defined advantage" Superannuation Management Fees Comparison systems, which are much less usual traditional company funds where benefits are established by a formula generally based upon a worker's last average income and length of service.