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Australian retirement investment account (called superannuation or super) worked similarly where you could accumulate as much money as you want in a low tax env
by softveda 5y ago
Australian retirement investment account (called superannuation or super) worked similarly where you could accumulate as much money as you want in a low tax environment. In this phase all income and capital gains received from assets within superannuation are taxed at a maximum of 15%. Then once you turn 65 and convert to a pension there is no tax on the pension (drawdown from the accumulated money).
The govt. changed rules couple of years back this so that the max you can now convert to pension phase is AUD $1.6m indexed every few years. The rest of the money stays back in accumulation phase where tax has to be paid.
This closed the loophole where really wealthy people were having $1m tax free pension earnings.