Advisers not impressed with budget changes
/in Budget, Financial, Superannuation /by Always FinancialMore than 50% of advisers believe that the federal budget will have a negative impact on their clients but agree that it will drive and increase in the need for advice, according to a survey from Midwinter.
The survey garnered responses from 103 Australian advice practitioners to develop an understanding of the planning industry’s initial responses to this year’s budget and how they believe their clients will be affected.
The majority 87.3% of respondents, said that they felt negative towards the proposed lifetime cap for no-concessional contributions of 500,000 and a further 86.4% said they felt negative toward the proposed lowering of the concessional contributions cap to $25,000. the removal of the TTR pension tax exemption was also unpopular; with a 73.5% of respondents saying it will negatively impact their clients.
Advisers did concede that the increased complexity of the superannuation system may drive more demand for advice, with 51% of respondents believing there will be an increase in people seeking advice. The introduction of the catch-up concessional contributions over a five-year period also gained support from advisers with 76.5% of respondents regarding it as a positive change from a planning perspective.
The survey revealed super splitting with a spouse, insurance bonds and spouse rebates as the top three strategies advisers will look to use to combat the proposed changes to superannuation, citing the 1.6 million cap as a major driver to implementing lesser used strategies.
[via Financial Standard]
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