The sudden policy shift comes despite federal Labor declaring just last May that it had no intention of banning the super borrowing arrangement.

The Greens are negotiating an end to borrowing by SMFS to buy property in return for supporting the government’s contentious federal budget tax changes.

The government has yielded to the Greens and agreed to ban SMSFs from borrowing to purchase residential properties and avoiding the CGT increase.

The Greens pledge their support in exchange for an end to an exemption that allows self-managed super funds to borrow money to invest in residential property, and a delay on the…

Former Commonwealth Bank CEO David Murray disagrees with Labor and the Greens on almost everything, but backs banning property borrowing by SMSFs.

The sudden policy shift comes despite federal Labor declaring just last May that it had no intention of banning the super borrowing arrangement.