Chapter 12: 10 strategies to reduce your tax and boost your super

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell.

Jack Welch, former CEO General Electric (1981–2001), net worth $720 million

This chapter summarises the key strategies that an SMSF expert adviser might recommend to help you reduce your tax and boost your super. While many of these have already been used as examples throughout the book, this chapter groups them together and shows how they work through case studies. These ten strategies should be reviewed whenever you reach a benchmark age, such as 50, 55, 60, 65 or 75, when a significant financial event occurs, such as the sale of an asset or business, or an inheritance ...

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