It is an ATO requirement to have at least two individual Trustees or a Corporate Trustee for an SMSF. The reason for having a minimum of two individual Trustees or a Corporate Trustee is because an SMSF is a trust structure and does not have legal persona. It has to be represented by at least two individual Trustees or a Corporate Trustee.
You can set up your SMSF with only one Member (a Member is the one who contributes funds to the SMSF). To set up a single Member SMSF, the superannuation legislation requires you to have two individual Trustees or a Corporate Trustee for the Fund.
If you have a Corporate Trustee for a single member SMSF, the Member must be either be:
If you choose not to have a Corporate Trustee, the SMSF must have two individual Trustees. One Trustee must be the Member and the other Trustee must be a person who is either:
Upon the death of the single Member, the second Trustee steps into the manager position of the Fund and allocate the Member’s funds in the SMSF to the estate or the Binding death nomination of the Member. For more information on the duties and responsibilities of a Trustee and a Member, please see the ATO guidance.
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Superannuation Warehouse is an accounting firm and do not provide financial advice. All information provided has been prepared without taking into account any of the Trustees’ objectives, financial situation or needs. Because of that, Trustees are advised to consider their own circumstances before engaging our services.
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