The Australian Death Notification Service is a collaboration between the Births, Deaths and Marriages registries across Australia and aims to let people notify government and non-government agencies, organisations and institutions all at once that someone has died. The service can be used once the death certificate has been issued for the person who has died.
SMSF Alliance principal David Busoli said the new service is intended to minimise the paperwork involved in estate administration.
“Once a notification is lodged, it is sent to all participating organisations who will then make contact to begin their processing,” Mr Busoli explained.
Mr Busoli said that all state and territory governments are signed up to the service, along with various banks, superannuation funds, utilities and councils.
“More organisations are joining all the time. The ATO is expected to join soon. You can also nominate an organisation to join,” he said.
No, they are not here to help you. It’s to facilitate death duties. I made sure my Dad prepaid his funeral expenses and several thousands of dollars of cheques were presented and paid before the bank was notified.
More Government simplification. Good news. Hopefully various states and territories don’t head home and come up with variations as they’ve been doing during covid.