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title: Member Leaving a SMSF
description: Members of a SMSF may leave the Fund due to resignation, incapacity, death, divorce or bankruptcy. This Trustee binding resolution removes a Member from the Fund for a specific purpose with effect on
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# Member Leaving a SMSF
### **About Product**
Members of a SMSF may leave the Fund due to resignation, incapacity, death, divorce or bankruptcy. This Trustee binding resolution removes a Member from the Fund for a specific purpose with effect once the Trustee has completed certain actions.
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### General Information
Members of a SMSF may leave the Fund due to resignation, incapacity, death, divorce or bankruptcy. This Trustee binding resolution removes a Member from the Fund for a specific purpose with effect once the Trustee has completed certain actions.
### **Benefits**
- Only the Trustees need to sign
- Provides a list of things for the Trustee to do to complete the exit of the Member
- Easy to understand and complete
### **Frequently Asked Legal Questions**
**What steps are required to exit a Member?**
In exiting the Member from the Fund’s Membership register the Trustee has conferred with its advisers and note the following is to be completed before the Member leaves:
1. Determine the Member’s balances in the Fund
2. Prepare an exit statement detailing the Member’s balance
3. Remove the Member as Trustee or Director of the Fund’s corporate Trustee
4. Ensure the Trustee has the correct Tax File Number for the Member in order to notify the ATO of the Member leaving the Fund
5. Notify the Member of any loss of insurance
6. Calculate any, if applicable, pay as you go tax liability in relation to any withdrawal or transfer of superannuation benefits
7. Pay any superannuation benefits to the account of the leaving Member choosing
8. Notify the Commissioner of Taxation of the Member leaving the Fund through one of the following:
- online at abr.gov.au
- through a registered agent
- by phone 13 10 20 – you must be the authorised contact for your SMSF
- by lodging the paper form Change of details for superannuation entities (NAT 3036)
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