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本文要点:
1. 满足退休条件后,可动用养老金并享有投资免税收益,只要满足最低提取额要求。
2. SMSF中可用书面指示灵活安排养老金与积累账户提款顺序,优先保障养老金账户规模。
3. 积累账户投资收入按ECPI免税比例计算,有效规划可提升整体免税效益。
4. 一旦养老金设立成功,后续账户增长不会再受200万转移余额上限限制。
5. 良好投资表现可让养老金账户突破上限,不影响税务记录或养老金免税资格。
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How do I maximise my tax-free pension if I give money to the kids?
John Wasiliev — Columnist
Jul 23, 2025 – 10.01am
Q: I have satisfied the conditions of retirement that allow me to access my super. I’m over 60 years of age and terminated a contract of more than 20 years employment. I now have a retirement account with $1.9 million from which I am withdrawing the minimum pension amount required and an accumulation account in an SMSF. I would like to help my children with deposits for housing. If I withdraw a lump sum this can come out of the accumulation account and not affect the transfer balance cap and my pension?
Marian.
A: Since you are over age 60 and have just retired from employment, you have met what is described as a retirement condition of release.
This is reflected in your superannuation balance becoming accessible to you and being treated as “unrestricted non-preserved” benefit, says Peter Crump, a senior consultant in the private wealth division at BDO in Adelaide.
Using a starting balance of $1.9 million, your minimum pension in a full financial year would have been $76,000. It is most important that you have taken at least the minimum pension each year to avoid losing the tax-free investment income concession, which is granted to account-based superannuation pensions.
Consequently, you have been able to start a retirement pension and have used your available transfer balance cap space of $1.9 million to start this pension, but the legal maximum amount that could be used towards a pension account in the recently completed financial year was $1.9 million, which is the current transfer balance cap.
So long as you meet the minimum pension requirements, your pension account is eligible for tax-free investment income.
Your pension and accumulation accounts operate independently and you can withdraw money from each of them according to your needs, but you need to make sure that you meet the minimum pension drawing requirements.
In an SMSF, that is easily arranged as you can provide the trustee (i.e. yourself) with a written instruction that any payments made from the fund will be treated as minimum pension payments initially and any excess over that treated as lump sum drawings from the accumulation account.
Keeping your pension account as large as possible and running down your accumulation account is a sensible strategy. So the accumulation account is where lump sums can come from. In an SMSF that has both accumulation and pension accounts, a calculation is undertaken at the end of the financial year by an actuary to determine the exempt current pension income or ECPI.
The ECPI is generally determined as the average proportion of the fund that was supporting pensions during the year.
The ECPI calculation is applied to the overall investment income of the fund for the full financial year to determine the proportion of the income which is not subject to tax.
For example, if the ECPI was calculated as 80 per cent and your investment income for the year was $100,000, 80 per cent of that $100,000 would not be subject to tax and you would only pay tax on the $20,000 remaining income.
You can keep your pension balance as high as possible by drawing the minimum pension amount each year and drawing any extra money required from the accumulation account where your ECPI is as high as possible also.
In this discussion, we have not considered the impact of having more than one pension account as these are treated on your death.
If it is intended that those accounts are treated in the same way, then that should be made appropriately and will not interfere with your estate planning. However, if you have a different nomination in the event of your death for your accumulation account will potentially interfere with your estate planning expectations.
Understanding how your superannuation is taxed and how you can achieve a reliable tax-free outcome with access to your super should be considered before seeking financial advice to ensure your super is used as efficiently as possible.
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Q: I was wondering how the reader in your question (*What if my late spouse’s super pushes me over $3m?*) published on July 11 could have $2.8 million in pension phase. Isn’t there a transfer balance cap of around $2 million [sic], meaning that she would need to split her super balance between pension and accumulation accounts?
Garry
A: The transfer balance cap you refer to applies to the amount of super that has been transferred from an accumulation account and then used to start a pension. This is what is recorded by the Australian Taxation Office in a member’s transfer balance account, which the member can access via their digital identity platform called MyGov, says David Busoli, the principal of self-managed super administrator SMSF Alliance.
In her question the reader (who is 62) states that her pension income comprises a death benefit income stream she received from her husband, who died in his 50s, plus her own super, which did very well from being invested in a direct index option in the S&P 500.
Now, the original answer to the question assumes that when this pension began it was within the transfer balance cap at the time and that the pension balance has since increased, thanks to the investment performance of her super.
Since 2017 when the transfer balance cap rules were introduced with a $1.6 million limit (that is now $2 million), they have restricted how much super can be transferred into the retirement pension phase.
However, once the super is in pension phase, any changes to a member’s actual pension account due to investment performance will not affect her transfer balance account records held by the ATO.
Accordingly, the actual pension account can rise above the cap with no consequence for the member’s personal transfer balance account, says Busoli. Therefore, a member’s account that has enjoyed superb investment performance may rise above the cap, so it can be $2.8 million.
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