If you withdrew money from your superannuation fund through the Covid-19 early release of super program, you can rebuild your super by making personal super contributions.
If these contributions mean you might exceed your non-concessional contributions cap, you may be eligible to have them treated as ‘Covid-19 re-contributions’, which are excluded from the non-concessional contributions cap.
You will be eligible to make a re-contribution of Covid-19 early release amounts to super if you ca answer yes to all of the following:
If eligible, you can make a re-contribution up to the amount you accessed through Covid-19 early release.
You can make multiple re-contributions, but the total of all your re-contributions must not go over the total amount you accessed through Covid-19 early release.
Before you choose to treat your re-contribution of Covid-19 early release amounts, you should:
When you choose to make a Covid-19 re-contribution, you will be a complete the Notice of re-contribution of Covid-19 early release amounts form. You need to provide this to your super fund before or at the time when you make your contribution. Your fund will report this re-contribution to the ATO.
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