As an Australian expat, life comes with all sorts of adventures, challenges, and—let’s be honest, a few headaches too, particularly, when a tasks like catching up on your overdue tax returns slip through the cracks sometimes. If you’ve been living overseas and have inadvertently missed …
Demystifying PFICs for Australians in the United States
Demystifying PFICs for Australian Expats in the US: A Comprehensive Guide (In-Depth Exploration) For many Australians who live and work in the United States, navigating US taxes can be a nightmare, especially when it comes to declaring your Aussie investments in your US return? Managed …
Update: Thailand Clarifies Tax on Foreign Income
Background to Thailand’s Plan to Levy Tax on Foreign Income Recently we published “Tax Alert: Thailand to tax foreign income”, an article about significant new changes introduced by the Thai Revenue Department through Revenue Order 161/2023, that seek to tax Thai tax residents on any …
Remote Workers – Australia’s Opportunistic Tax Grab
Remote workers – if you are an Australian expat who works remotely for an Australian employer, you’ll want to read more (you should not ignore this article)! In recent months, an alarming issue for remote workers (discovered by our team here at Expat Taxes), has …
Tax Alert: Thailand to tax foreign income
25/11/2023 – Update: The Thai Revenue Department has recently issued a follow-up revenue order 162/2023 that clarifies the operation of these new rules. It’s recommended that you continue to read this article first, and after take a look at our latest article which details the …
Are share trading profits of non-residents taxable in Australia?
According to Sydney-based research firm Investment Trends’ 2022 1st Half Online Investing Report, online share traders have increased from 700,000 in 2019 to approximately 1.47m today. Australian Bureau of Statistics migration statistics for 2022 revealed that 224,000 Australians left Australia permanently to migrate overseas in …
Tax Residency for Australian’s working on cruise ships or yachts
On 2 November 2022, the Administrative Appeals Tribunal handed down a decision in relation to a case Duff and Commissioner of Taxation (Taxation) [2022] AATA 3675 (2 November 2022). Duff, an Australian, who was employed as a chef on a cruise ship. The Case and …
Could Remote Working During the Pandemic Affect Your Tax Burden?
During the recent Covid-19 pandemic, in line with Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) guidance, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) issued some additional guidelines for Australian expats who returned to Australia to visit, but who couldn’t leave due to covid restrictions either here or …
3 ways to enjoy expat life
When you think about living as an expat, what springs to mind? Everyone has their own idea of what it means to be an expat, but there is more than one way to enjoy this type of life. Here, we take a look at three …
Urgent Deadline for Directors ID Registration in Australia – November 30th 2022
Living and working overseas as an Australian expat, or as a non-resident of Australia means that it’s easy to overlook your Australian tax and compliance obligations, because these things are often “out of sight, out of mind”! If you are a director of a company …