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Super workarounds: what to do with $3m-plus balances

Super workarounds: what to do with $3m-plus balances

Choices range from setting up a family trust or transferring savings into kids’ superannuation accounts to moving the biggest investments into private company structures.

When Treasurer Jim Chalmers announced ambitious plans to tax earnings on superannuation balances over $3 million at 30 per cent – double the current rate – from July 1, 2025, he also declared it would only hit a small portion of Australians.

Just half a per cent in fact, or 80,000 superannuation fund members. But tax advisers say those 80,000 people, who are predominately in self-managed superannuation funds, have options to avoid this tax hit.

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