Return From Oz

Backpackers and others on working holidays in Australia will be stung with higher income-tax bills as a result of tougher new rules. From July 2016, people in Australia for a working holiday will lose access to the tax-free threshold of nearly $20,000, because they will now be deemed “non-residents” for tax purposes.

Backpackers Hit With Higher Taxes (The Age)

Mark Geary writes:

Aussie Tories destroy backpacker holidays…backpackers don’t vote…

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12 thoughts on “Return From Oz”

Laughter Tack. May 12, 2015 at 1:49 pm

If that just eat ad pops up one more time by “accident”, telling me to download it. I’m deleting my broadsheet app.

Ads are fine, just don’t be pushy.

Clampers Outside! May 12, 2015 at 2:00 pm

I’ve never seen an a single advert on my android phone…. what app you got?
1. Laughter Tack. May 12, 2015 at 2:21 pm
  
  It’s the iPhone app. I’m fine with ads but I keep hitting it by accident and it opens and goes to download app. And sometimes it appears to do it with no prompt.
  
  I’m fine with ads but stop trying to get ad numbers from clumsy idiots with large fingers.
  1. Dongle May 12, 2015 at 4:53 pm
    
    The banner is fine but the pop up one is really, really effing annoying.
Mick Flavin May 12, 2015 at 2:18 pm

Yes. It’s a pain in the anus at the minute.
1. Mani May 12, 2015 at 2:33 pm
  
  For god’s sake, Mick, put your phone in your pocket like a normal person.

phil May 12, 2015 at 2:13 pm

Would that work here with Non Doms?

Jimmee May 12, 2015 at 2:48 pm

http://38.media.tumblr.com/1dfca2c3f356f2cae828cd5ec38a5088/tumblr_nm60n4PIqB1qb5gkjo1_400.gif

Someone May 12, 2015 at 4:38 pm

Per yer fecking taxes ye smelly thatcherites.

Delacaravanio May 12, 2015 at 9:04 pm

They are paying their taxes.

The tax free threshold is the same concept as a tax free allowance. If you’re in Australia for a year you’re not claiming a tax free allowance somewhere else, so it’s entirely unfair to remove it.