For most advice practices, the year end busy period does not stop on 30 June. Therefore, we will maintain our focus on providing the service and resources you need throughout this busy time.
If any of your clients have pension payments scheduled for July 2026, we recommend checking that they’ll have sufficient available cash in their Panorama Super transaction account. Without enough cash, pension payments can be delayed.
Why payments can be delayed in July
Where there’s insufficient cash to cover a pension payment, we’ll sell enough of the client’s investments to cover the shortfall.
However, this process can take longer during the EOFY period because of lengthier timeframes with unit pricing, distribution and dividend payments, and asset redemptions.
What you can do to help avoid delays
Check that your client has enough cash in their transaction account to cover their July pension payment.
If you anticipate a shortfall, you should consider selling investments in time for cash to be available by 30 June. Initiating a sale by 16 June is sufficient for most investments. However, some managed funds may take longer to sell, and you should refer to the fund’s product disclosure statement for redemption timeframes.
For more information on selling investments, login to BT Panorama and visit Help & support > Managing your clients > Investment orders > Place an order.
How to check a client’s account
Log into BT Panorama and select the ‘Clients’ menu to view a list of your clients, including those with pensions. Select the relevant client and:
What to do if there’s a pension payment delay
Please get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can do to help.
For transactions to be reflected within the 2025/26 year-end statements, they must be valid and placed before our published cut-off times. These cut-off times apply to contributions, in specie asset transfers, other transfers such as transfers between superannuation phases, investment orders, new applications and pension resets. The cut-off times are Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST) and will therefore need to be adjusted if you are operating in a different time zone. For the full list of cut-off dates, login to BT Panorama and head to Help & support > Business & admin > Panorama year end > Transaction cut-off dates.
If you plan on making a deposit into a super or investment account via direct debit, then take these factors into account:
When making super contributions via EFT (or direct credit), it's important to identify the type of contribution in the description field. Otherwise, the contribution will be treated as a personal contribution.
For a list of the references for contributions login to BT Panorama and head to Help & support > Products & investments > Manage contributions > About biller codes & bank accounts.
Also, check if there is daily EFT dollar limit imposed by the bank, which may impact the amount of contribution that can be made.
An integral part of helping your clients with superannuation contributions will be monitoring these versus relevant caps. For some clients, you will also be assisting with claiming a tax deduction on personal contributions.
Take advantage of BT Panorama’s business level contributions summary to help keep track of your clients’ concessional and non-concessional contributions to BT Panorama, as well as tax deductions that have been submitted for the financial year. Login to BT Panorama and head to Business > Contribution summary.
Our tax statement estimator tool will be available in late July. Use it to see when a tax statement was released or the estimated tax statement delivery dates. To access the tool, login to BT Panorama and head to Help & support > Business and admin > Panorama year end.
Use BT Panorama’s Tax Statement Guides to help you, your clients and their accountants locate the required tax information.
When the fund completes the annual tax return a calculation is performed for the fund as a whole and any final tax adjustments for that financial year are made and allocated to your client’s accounts. Factors that are considered in this calculation include but are not limited to capital gains or losses, investment income (received or accrued) and concessional contributions. For more information refer to the BT Panorama Super & Tax Guide by logging into your account and visiting Help & Support > Business & Admin > BT Panorama Year End.
BT Panorama will no longer hold a contribution, or at least a part of it, if the member has chosen to rollover or withdraw a part of their super account held by Panorama. In such a case, a notice of intent cannot be given for the entire contribution.
A valid notice of intent will be limited to a proportion of the contribution that remains after the rollover or withdrawal. The proportion remaining is calculated by taking the tax-free component remaining and multiplying by the contribution, then dividing this by the tax free component of the interest before the rollover.
One-off pension payments do not have any effect on the nominated regular pension payment, they will contribute towards the minimum pension payment for the financial year, though the nominated regular pension payment will still be paid even if it is set to the minimum. It’s integral that any remaining regular pension payments set are amended for the client’s intentions.
To amend or end the regular pension payment, select the client’s account, and then select Pension Payments. More information is available in Help & Support > Products & Investments > Manage Pension Payments.
Tax statements are not provided for BT Panorama Super clients. Instead, clients will receive an Annual Statement for each financial year. For estimated statement release dates head to Help & Support > Business & Admin > Panorama Year End.
The following BT Panorama Super Pension clients will receive a PAYG Summary statement:
The following BT Panorama Super Pension clients will not receive a PAYG Summary statement:
For more information regarding end of financial year statements head to Help & Support > Business & Admin > Panorama Year End.
Tax Statements for BT Panorama Investments accounts will be released in tranches. To see an estimate of when a particular client’s statement will be released, advisers have access to an estimator tool through the Help and Support page that will list the account numbers and their anticipated release dates. To access this tool navigate to Help & Support > Business & Admin > Panorama year end. You can log in to the estimator tool using your User ID (e.g. 201…..) and Panorama username.
Due to the end of financial year, we generally experience delays with unit pricing, distribution and dividend payments, and asset redemptions. Since we are expecting these funds into the account, a drawdown will not be triggered to fund the pension payment, and as a result there may be insufficient cash to make a scheduled pension payment.
It is particularly important around end of financial year for advisers to ensure their clients pension accounts have sufficient cash available for upcoming pension payments. Alternatively, advisers are able to process a one-off pension payment when sufficient cash becomes available. Also, the adviser is able to change the date for when the scheduled pension payment will be paid.
Annual Tax Statements for BT Panorama Investments accounts are released in tranches. Once your client's Annual Tax Statement is available online, it can take approximately four weeks for their Annual Tax Statement information to be submitted to the ATO and appear in their MyGov account.
Additional information
Information current as at 28 April 2026
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