R2 Assessable personal contributions

Show at R2  the total assessable amount of personal contributions.

The trustee of a fund is to treat personal contributions as assessable contributions only if the contributor has provided a valid notice stating their intent to claim a deduction for their contributions and the trustee has acknowledged receipt of the notice.

Self-employed and other eligible individuals can claim a full deduction for superannuation contributions provided the following conditions are met.

• The contribution is made to a complying superannuation fund.
• Less than 10% of the sum of the person's assessable income, reportable employer superannuation contributions and reportable fringe benefits are attributable to employment as an employee.
• If the person has turned 75, the contributions were made on a day that was on or before 28 days after the end of the month in which they turned 75.
• If the person was under the age of 18 years at the end of the income year in which the contribution was made, the person must have derived income in the income year from carrying on a business or from employment as an employee.
• The person has given a valid notice to the trustee of a fund of their intention to claim a deduction before lodging their tax return for the income year in which the contribution was made or the end of the income year following the year in which the contribution was made.
• The person has received an acknowledgment from the trustee of receipt of the notice.

The self-employed person can claim a deduction only in the income year in which the contribution is made.

Other personal contributions that are included in the fund's assessable income include:

• the untaxed element of a rollover superannuation benefit that a member is taken to receive under section 307-15 of the ITAA 1997, to the extent that it is not an excess untaxed rollover amount (an amount will be an excess untaxed rollover amount if it exceeds $1.205 million)
• the untaxed element of rollover superannuation benefits of a complying superannuation fund that arose as a result of the complying superannuation fund ceasing to be a constitutionally protected fund during the income year or at the end of the previous income year
• the taxable component of a directed termination payment within the meaning of section 82-10F of the Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997.

R2 is used to determine R Assessable contributions.

Contributions caps

Caps apply to contributions made to members' superannuation accounts. Amounts written at R1 and R2 are taken into account in calculating whether the relevant caps have been exceeded. Contributions that exceed the cap amounts are subject to extra tax. The member will receive an 'excess contributions tax assessment' which will detail how much extra tax the member must pay.

The amount of the cap, and how much extra tax the member must pay on the amount in excess of the cap, depends on the age of the member (such that certain transitional arrangements can apply) and whether the contributions are concessional or non-concessional contributions.