Expat Taxes Australia

This week, the ATO sent tax agents across the country a heads-up. Some taxpayers who first reported a rental property in their 2025 income tax return will soon receive an email from the ATO pointing them to a new fact sheet (NAT 75819-04....

If you own an Australian rental property from overseas, the expensive mistake almost never starts with you. It starts with your filing cabinet.

And the way an Australian rental property turns into a tax problem isn’t usually dramatic. There’s no missing rent, no false declaration, no clever scheme. There’s just a loan that got redrawn for school fees five years ago, a ...

Have a discretionary trust? Or run a small business through one? Or distribute income to a non-working spouse, adult kids studying, or a parent helping out? Then this Budget measure is for you.

The 2026-27 Federal Budget proposed a 30% minimum tax on the taxable income of discretionary trusts from 1 July 2028. It’s announced. It’s not yet law. The Government has flagge...

Own (or ever owned) an Australian property that was once home? Spent time overseas? Then sit down, because the 2026 Budget main residence exemption changes (and how they interact with rules already on the books) are about to become the most expensive area of tax law you’ve probably never had to think about. Until now.

We’ll walk through how the main residence exemption...

Right. If you’re an Aussie expat with a rental property back home, shares, crypto, or any other asset you bought hoping it would one day be worth more than you paid for it, last night’s Federal Budget just rewrote the rules of the game.

Not all at once. Not catastrophically. But enough that doing nothing for the next 14 months would be, well, a strange choice.

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