Budgeting for expat life is just as important as it was when you lived and worked in Australia! Once your big move overseas has happened, and you are slowly settling into expat life in your destination of choice, it can be easy to forget that …
Preparing for expat life: moving
If you’re planning to go overseas and become an expat, there are a number of things you need to sort before making your big move, including preparing for expat life. Often the first thing that comes to mind is getting your Australian tax returns and …
Financial planning for Australian expats
Financial planning for Australian expats – it’s just so important, perhaps even more so than for Australian residents! Aside from the sheer adventure of living and working overseas, working as an expat can be a great way to grow your wealth. And if you’re working …
Complexity of Australian tax residency
As Australians, we love to travel. We pursue adventure, work, fun, love, and life on every corner of Earth.As an Australian citizen, you may intend on returning to the land of Oz after your travels and plans may change once you fall in love with …
5 tips for finding expat accountants
A good accountant can be a huge economic (and emotional) benefit when you’re on home turf. When you’re overseas, finding that perfect accounting firm can be even more important. Unfortunately, being an expat means that the task of finding an accountant that you can trust …
Australian expats to repay HELP debts
Update - 9th May 2017: Please note that the Australian government handed down it's 2017 Australian Federal budget today, with proposals to reduce the HELP debt repayment thresholds. It is expected that this will catch significantly more expats in the HELP debt repayment loop, than ...
Uber takes on the Australian Taxation Office
As a tech-loving geek who's lived and worked as an Aussie expatriate in the heart of tech heaven, Silicon Valley I've tested, tried and fallen in 'love' with a myriad of innovative apps . . . and none more so than Uber. As a former ...
Expat Tax Services – Our re-branding
Why did we decide to re-brand?For the last 10 years since 2006, we've prepared Australian expat tax returns for Australian expatriates under our brand, Australian Taxation Services (Aust) Pty Ltd. Throughout all that time we've provided expatriate tax services to Australian expats including: the provision ...
