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This said, despite the changes, TTs are likely to remain a key tax planning strategy for many advisers and their clients.

Instead, infant children are assessed at the normal, individual rates (approximately $22,000 tax free and the balance at normal adult rates).

The Government at the time stated “the concessional tax rates available for minors receiving income from testamentary trusts will be limited to income derived from assets that are transferred from deceased estates or the proceeds of the disposal or investment of those assets”.

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As an author, Matthew is widely recognised as an expert in his field, who constantly creates bespoke revenue related strategies for the growth, management and protection of wealth.

Matthew specialises in tax, estate and succession planning, providing strategic advice to business owners and high net worth individuals, and has been recognised in the ‘Best Lawyers’ list since 2014 in relation to trusts and estates and in ‘Doyles’ either personally or as part of View since 2015 in relation to taxation. In 2017 he was also nominated as Tax Partner of the Year (Lawyers Weekly).

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For example, for most couples who both implement testamentary trusts, it will be the case that they will die at different times and there will often be a desire to transfer assets between testamentary trusts.

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Matthew is regularly published in Australia’s leading monthly tax journal, The Tax Institute’s Taxation in Australia (11 articles since 2012) and the leading weekly tax journal, Thomson Reuters’ Weekly Tax Bulletin (20 articles since 2012).

(2AA) For the purposes of paragraph (2)(a), assessable income of a trust estate is of a kind covered by this subsection if:

Pursuant to Div 6AA of the ITAA 1936 and in particular, s 102AG(2)(a)(i), excepted trust income is the amount which is assessable income of a trust estate that resulted from a will, codicil or court order varying a will or codicil.

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In part leveraging off the skills he has developed working in the SME market space, Matthew has been the catalyst in developing a number of innovative legal products for advisers and their clients.

The historical advantages of TTs have however been undermined by changes first announced by the Government as part of the May 2018 budget.

The reason for this is that the legislation mandates that the “property (must be) transferred to the trustee of the trust estate to benefit the beneficiary from the estate of the deceased person concerned’ (emphasis added)”.

Matthew Burgess, Director at View Legal, discusses what the new normal is in relation to testamentary trusts and excepted trust income. He examines the 2018 federal budget changes, legislative provisions and a key planning issue.

It is clearly the case that the excepted trust income rules should continue to apply in situations where a couple both implement testamentary trusts.

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Matthew Burgess co-founded View in 2014, having been a partner and lawyer at one of Australia’s leading independent law firms for over 17 years.

It is understood many industry specialists made submissions on the draft legislation on this point (which were ignored) along the following lines:

To argue otherwise would again see the proposed amendments extend significantly beyond the stated intent of the announced measure and impact taxpayers in a range of circumstances where there is no inappropriate tax benefit received by a beneficiary.”

While a significant focus of Matthew’s practice is on small to medium enterprises and private business owners, the growth in this area in recent years has meant that he also regularly works on transactions with listed companies.

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As is usually the case with budget announcements that attack perceived arbitrage revenue opportunities, the exact impact of the changes revolved almost entirely around how the legislation is crafted.

The announcement in the 2018 federal budget that the long-standing rules in this area would be attacked was a surprise for many.

One of the main advantages of a testamentary trust (“TT”) set up under someone’s will is that the terms can be drafted such that it complies with the requirements set out in s 102AG(2)(a)(i) of the ITAA 1936.

In turn, the budget statement that the “measure will clarify that minors will be taxed at adult marginal tax rates only in relation to income of a testamentary trust that is generated from assets of a deceased estate (or the proceeds of the disposal or investment of these assets)” also has the distinct prospect of having much wider consequences than might otherwise be expected.

Unfortunately, then for all advisers in this space there is now a further complication that needs to be managed that potentially increases the tax related administration aspects of deceased estates.

This means the income each year allocated to minor children is not subject to the same tax rates as if it were a normal family discretionary trust established during a person’s lifetime (where the first $700 distributed to a child is tax free but then any further income is taxed at the highest rate which could be up to 66%).

Focusing solely on the ETY position, the new rules unfortunately make it clear that in this situation the income earned on the wife’s assets gifted to the husband’s TT will not give rise to ETY.

A key question in relation to the rules was focused on the way in which the restrictions operate in the context of a husband and wife preparing wills incorporating TTs.  In particular,  are there any tax consequences that flow from preparing (say) the husband and wife’s wills to reflect that in the event the husband predeceases the wife (for example) the wife’s will provides that her assets will be gifted into the TT previously set up under the husband’s will.