Once you reach age 67, however, you must satisfy a work test if you plan to make personal contributions for which you intend to claim a tax deduction. Once you hit age 75, your super fund is generally unable to accept further contributions into your super account (see more details below).
Super rules if you're aged 70 plus. Once you turn 70, you are nearly at the end of your eligibility to make contributions into your super account, although you now have a couple of extra years for making last minute contributions.
If you are 75 years or older, the super fund cannot accept any voluntary (concessional and non-concessional) contributions from you apart from mandated (super guarantee) employer contributions which can be contributed at any time regardless of age.
Superannuation Guarantee (SG)
If you are aged over 60, your employer must still pay SG contributions on your behalf into your super account. The SG contribution rate is currently legislated to rise incrementally to 12% in July 2025.
If you are turning 75 during a Financial Year you can make voluntary Concessional Contributions to your SMSF on or before the day that is 28 days after the end of the month in which you turn 75, provided you satisfy the Work Test or meet the Work Test Exemption criteria.
The work test. Effective 1 July 2022, if you're aged between 67-74, you won't need to satisfy the 'work test' before making non-concessional contributions and salary sacrifice contributions to your superannuation.
A: It is possible in the right circumstances to continue to make contributions to add to your super balance even after you have retired and have begun taking income from your super. That said, whether it is worth doing should be weighed up against what it offers.
Your employer is not required to make super contributions if you're: paid to do work of a private or domestic nature for 30 hours or less each week. a non-Australian resident and you're paid to do work outside Australia. an Australian resident paid by a non-resident employer for work done outside Australia.
When you turn 60, your pension payments (or any lump sum withdrawals) are usually tax free. All lump sums and pension payments are tax-free after age 60. If you're under age 60, tax may be applicable.
Your employer can underpay or even fail to pay your superannuation contributions for one of several reasons: they may be deliberately avoiding their obligations, or they may believe they're not responsible for the payments.
When withdrawing your superannuation, you can generally choose to receive it as a lump sum, a retirement income stream, or a mixture of both. If you choose a lump sum, the entirety of your superannuation balance is transferred to your bank account.
You typically pay 15% tax on your super contributions, and your withdrawals are tax-free if you're 60 or older. The investment earnings on your super are also only taxed at 15%.
When you retire you could withdraw your super as a cash payment from your super account. You can open an account-based pension and set-up regular income payments. You can also withdraw smaller cash payments from your super account or account-based pension. The choice is yours.
Under the superannuation guarantee, employers have to pay superannuation contributions of 11% of an employee's ordinary time earnings when an employee is: over 18 years, or. under 18 years and works over 30 hours a week.
Assume, for example, you will need 65 per cent of your pre-retirement income, so if you earn $50,000 now, you might need $32,500 in retirement.
The cap – which includes contributions made by your employer under the Super Guarantee scheme – is set at $27,500 p.a. (2023/24 figure). This figure is indexed each year in line with the average weekly ordinary time earnings, rounded down to the nearest $2,500.
If you choose to withdraw a lump sum after reaching your preservation age and prior to turning 60, you can withdraw the taxable component of your super up to the low-rate cap ($235,000 in 2023–24) tax free.
Is super included in your taxable income? No, the money paid into your super account is not included as part of your taxable income, according to the ATO. This means it is not included or reported as income when you lodge your income tax return at the end of the financial year.
For example, if you are under 65 years old, you can access between 4–10% of the balance of money in your super account each financial year. Once you have met a condition of release with a nil cashing restriction, you can access your super benefits in other ways and don't need a TRIS.
If you have employees, you generally need to pay super guarantee contributions to your employees regardless of how much they are paid. All employees are covered by the superannuation guarantee. It applies to full-time, part-time and casual workers.
As an employer, it is compulsory to pay your eligible employees super guarantee (SG) at least 4 times a year. The minimum SG rate you must pay for each eligible employee is 11% of their ordinary time earnings (OTE).
Generally, all employees are eligible for super guarantee. It doesn't matter if the employee is: full time, part time or casual. receiving a super pension or annuity while working (this includes employees on transition to retirement)
Can I Transfer My Super to My Bank Account? You can only transfer your super to your bank account if you are eligible to access your super. To be eligible to access your super, you generally need to have at least met your superannuation preservation age.
The only way to avoid paying super contributions tax is to make a non-concessional contribution instead of a concessional contribution. Sure, you don't get to claim a tax deduction for non-concessional contributions, but you won't need to pay contributions tax either.
Can I access super at 65 and keep working? Yes. You can access your super when you turn 65 regardless of whether you're still working. You can also make certain types of super contributions up until you turn 75, even if you're retired and drawing a super pension.