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We have updated our most popular FirstTech Guides for 2025/26 - online versions now available:
Super Guide 2025/26
SMSF Guide 2025/26
Pocket Guide 2025/26
Updated Quick Reference Guides now available:
•    Centrelink quick reference guide (1 July 2025 to 19 Sept 2025)
•    Aged care quick reference guide (1 July 2025 to 19 Sept 2025)
•  Super contribution checklists 2025/26
•  Super rates & thresholds 2025/26
•   Non-concessional bring forward flowchart 2025/26
FirstTech Pocket Guide (mobile version) is also updated for 2025/26.  

Our most popular FirstTech guides updated for 2025-26 will be available on-line from 1 July 2025.

You can access the complete range of FirstTech guides here.

 

Printed guides

CFS prints copies of the following guides:

FirstTech Super Guide

FirstTech Pocket Guide

 

You can now pre-order free copies of these guides for delivery in August.

How do I order printed guides?

Go to: cfs-first-tech.qponline.com.au

Log in using your User Name and Password if you already have these details, otherwise select 'New User' under the blue 'Log In' button

Complete the online ordering process

After ordering 

You will receive confirmation emails from Quality Press

You can check your order history online at cfs-first-tech.qponline.com.au (Orders > Order history)

Queries about your online order can be sent to sales@qualitypress.com.au

Please note, due to printing timeframes your new guides will not be delivered until August.

 

 

The ATO has released detailed guidance for individuals and superannuation funds around:

  1. Commuting a legacy retirement product – what products can be commuted, what happens after commutation and possible tax consequences.
  2. Changes to reserve allocations – the correct contribution treatment for allocations from reserves, how excluded allocations have changed and the definition of a pension reserve. 

Latest articles

Residential aged care - 'No worse off' grandfathering rules FAQ

The Government announced it will delay implementation of the new Aged Care Act  from 1 July 2025 to 1 November 2025, providing another 4 months to prepare for the changes.  

Residents entering residential aged care on or after 1 November 2025 will be subject to new rules for the calculation of accommodation payments and ongoing fees.  

Existing residents will be covered by a “no worse off” principle - designed to protect against adverse financial impacts as the new framework takes effect. However, there are some complexities that advisers need to be aware of. 

Can you increase the amount claimed in a Notice of Intent?

This Did You Know discusses whether you can increase the amount claimed as a super tax deduction in a notice of intent, including how to complete the form.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carry forward concessional contributions FAQ

 
 

The eligibility criteria to be able to make carry forward concessional contributions is relatively simple, however there are some misunderstandings as to how it works in practice.    

This article looks at a range of common adviser questions the FirstTech team receive in relation to this measure.

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