Record the year's tax position
update_tax_positionCreate or update a financial year's SMSF tax position with partial field updates; figures feed the return's losses schedule and calculation statement and clear matching review checks.
Instructions
Create or update a financial year's tax position; only the fields you pass change. Feeds the return's losses schedule and calculation statement and clears the review checks tax_position_recorded and capital_losses_brought_forward when the figures agree with last year's return. A new position defaults the supervisory levy to the year's rate. Refused for a closed or lodged year. The fund's TFN is not part of the tax position and can't be set through the API — the trustee enters it on the web. AUD.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"fund_id": "<fund_id>",
"financial_year": "<financial_year>"
},
"name": "update_tax_position"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| fund_id | Yes | Fund ID (discover via whoami or list_funds) | |
| reasoning | No | Why you are making this change — recorded on the audit log entry for this write | |
| ecpi_method | No | Exempt current pension income method | |
| external_ref | No | Your stable ID for this write (e.g. a statement line or document reference). Repeating a call with the same external_ref replays the first result instead of writing twice. | |
| tax_losses_bf | No | Tax losses brought forward | |
| financial_year | Yes | Financial year — the label "2023-24" or its numeric id (from list_financial_years) | |
| supervisory_levy | No | Supervisory levy (13 L) | |
| net_capital_loss_cf | No | Net capital losses carried forward to later years | |
| actuarial_percentage | No | Actuarial certificate exempt %, unsegregated method | |
| tfn_withholding_credit | No | Credit for TFN amounts withheld (13 H) | |
| no_tfn_contributions_tax | No | Tax on no-TFN-quoted contributions (13 J) | |
| paygi_instalments_raised | No | PAYG instalments raised for the year (13 K) | |
| prior_year_capital_loss_bf | No | Net capital losses brought forward from prior years |