KhunHeineken

You assume everyone is opting for the traditional, 1960's style of Australian culture, whereby you rolled your selves up and did a hard days work for a decent days pay. That mentality has gone. "Quiet quitting" is now the norm amongst the younger generation, who think they are doing their boss a favor by working for them. Australia's welfare bill has exploded, and not because we have an aging population. Why pay a mortgage when you can fall pregnant and get Department of Housing accommodation and then your boyfriend moves in. Between the single mothers pension and the boyfriend on the dole, and all the other perks Centrelink hand out to them, the household practically brings in what a worker brings in, but the worker has to pay full freight for everything. As far as medical, I bet they can jump that queue as well, with workers who have private health being told to go down the private treatment route to make way for patients on Medicare. Go for a drive through any Housing Commission slum and you will see nice cars parked in the driveway. They have no shortage of cash from playing the system, and many have never worked a day in their life, nor will they, ever. Then, consider, the more kids you have the more money and the bigger house you get, and you can see Australia has created a reverse pyramid with welfare recipients, whereby one turns into many over generations because the kids never saw mum or dad ever go to work. In my opinion, the system is unsustainable. The "hand up" has changed to a "hand out." How good is Australia?

Yes. They can claim how low unemployment is, based on a lot of people working next to no hours per week. Very misleading.

It's funny how some members constantly moan about another member and their posts, which they could easily put on their ignore list, but they don't, because they actually want to read that member's posts. Too funny. I encourage any member that finds my posts on the proposed changes to Australian taxation and residency to put me on your ignore list. Ignorance is bliss.

Of course it would be available. It it wasn't, pensioners would be up in arms about it. Expat pensioners are a protected species.

Are you the forum spokesperson? Are you a moderator wannabe? Just put me on your ignore list and you don't have to read my posts. No one likes being told they may have to pay tax, or pay more tax in the future, but shooting the messenger does nothing to change the situation. In any case, I see it's the usual suspects jumping online after I post to personally attack me and to get me sent on another holiday.

Troll. Why don't you just put me on your ignore list if my posts are such a problem for you?

They shouldn't ban Thai's from permanent residency or citizenship, just make it the same criteria as Thailand has for foreigners.

The subs are nuclear. What Australian city will want them in their port?

This is what it says: "Financial institutions automatically withhold tax from interest earned on accounts held by foreign residents." Where do you get "Australian citizen" from? You very well could be right, and it is Australia foreign resident for taxation purposes, but it could be a foreigner, as in, not an Australian citizen. Like I said, I would be surprised if it was that easy to get out of paying all that tax.

That's why Australia is "The Lucky Country." Working is a lifestyle choice, not a necessity.

With the advent of 3D printers, the day will come when a business in Australia wishing to manufacture something in China will just send the details to the manufacture's 3D printer at the factory in China and then say, "I want 10,000 of these." No need to fly to China with samples, or courier them over.

Covid showed big companies that many of their staff could work from home, with little loss of production and profits. The effect of this was the company could rent a small premises and save a lot of money. Many companies downsized out of the Sydney CBD, so there were many vacant office blocks.

The ABS classifies someone as "employed" if they work more than 1 hour a week, which is ridiculous. The reason casual employment is preferred by employers is because it gets around the unfair dismissal laws. You don't have to fire anyone, you just don't ring them and give them hours.

Simon, I commend your work in this area, in a country where the people are oppressed, but your freedom is at stake, and you will not survive gaol time there. So, if you are going to do this, you can't be Cheap Charlie about it. You really need to have these files in the cloud, and not stored in any device inside country. I know you said you can not rely on the internet there, but so be it, if that is the way it has to be. You may think having a password offers you some protection, but the Junta will just gaol you until you give up your password, and when you do, you will be sentenced to gaol anyway. If you do not want to pay for any cloud storage, perhaps you can set up a small NAS somewhere as a server, or have a friend set up a partition on theirs. You really need the files stored outside of the country. Another idea is to make a random email address and store the files in there, then use "Tails" on a USB drive to access that email address. Of course, you will also need to use a VPN or TOR, and be sure to use a "secure erase" program after every download, so nothing deleted can be recovered from the drive in your device. I believe a minimum of 7 write overs is enough. These are some basic things, and hardly 007 stuff, but the other issue you have is, witnesses. Your students are witnesses to your documents, and whilst I am sure they dislike the Junta as much as anyone, and appreciate your work, the Junta with coerce them for a statement, and for sure they will give it up. Myanmar is run by some sadistic an immoral people, and if you are going to go up against them, at least try not to let hem have any physical evidence against you.

The subs are costing up to $368 billion dollars. That money could have gone a long way to fix up many problems in Australia.

"How good is Australia" - Scott Morrison. "Centrelink, living the dream."

Casuals pay tax.

Well said. They couldn't care less if the small fish are caught in the net for the big fish.

Say an Aussie had $2 million AUD in an Aussie bank earning 5%. That's $100,000AUD a year, and this was their only income. I would find it hard to believe they could ring their bank and give them an address in Thailand and go from being taxed as per the above table, to being taxed a flat 10%. Let's say that Aussie was still in Australia, using the "gray area" but in reverse, arguing that they actually live in Thailand, but are just on a long holiday in Australia visiting friends and family. I would be surprised if it was that easy to get out of paying all that tax. If there was other income involved, I would think as so as you give your bank an overseas address to claim your 10%, the ATO would be on you for their 32.5% as a non resident for tax purposes on your next tax return. Next time I am speaking with my accountant I will ask them about this as an option for when if / when the proposed changes to non resident tax comes in. One option I have was to liquidate every asset I have in Australia and move the money offshore, out of reach of the ATO. I would still be a non resident for tax purposes, being outside of Australia for 183 days, but I have nothing in Australia to tax. I could handle a flat 10% tax on interest, so leaving it in an Aussie bank, and telling them I am a non resident for tax purposes, could be an option.

Hardly.

Some were calling for a temporary rise in the GST. This would tax the actual people causing the inflation, the spenders. Basic foods are already exempt, they could extend this to things like white goods, in case your fridge blows up. This would net the government billions, which can then be used on hospitals, schools, roads etc. Another one, and my preferred one, was a temporary rise in super contributions, which lets the people keep their money. Say it went from 9% or 12% to 20%, this will slow down spending. Raising interest rates which target mortgage holders, who typically have less disposable income to spend, therefore, are not the ones causing inflation, on this occasion, will go beyond "unfair" and will cause social damage in the form of defaults, homelessness, divorce and suicide. Other options are available, but the government is not brave enough to try them. The problem is, the wealthy, those typically without mortgages, pay the inflated price anyway, so that leave the middle class paying through the nose, all the time while mortgage holders are the ones being punished. I am not saying raising interest rates doesn't work. I am suggesting there are better ways of lowering inflation in which the pain is evenly spread, and not carried by a minority who aren't even causing the problem. Interest rates couldn't stay low forever. They had to eventually rise and normalize again. The unemployment rate dropped recently, probably because mortgagees now have to get a second job, so this puts pressure on the RBA to raise rates again next month. It's a catch 22 for mortgagees. Work another job to keep your house, but you are causing another rate rise to push you closer to losing your house. The rot started decades ago when the housing market because an investment vehicle through tax perks, and the low supply of new housing which pushed house prices, and rents, through the roof. It turned what should have been homes for Aussie families into money making investments for the wealthy. Australia's housing market ponzi scheme may very well unravel in the next 12 to 18 months.

Why make a minority of Australians, mainly those with mortgages, carry the burden of Australia's high inflation? Particularly, as mortgagees typically have less money to spend, so are not the ones fueling inflation. The inflation burden should be carried by the broader population, not a minority.

What rights does this little book give you in Thailand? What does it allow you to do that a 30 day visa exemption stamp tourist can't do? It's nothing like Permanent Residency in a western country, and to suggest that it is comparable is laughable. On a side note, how can you argue you are a resident of Australia for taxation purposes, whilst holding this little book that says you are a resident of Thailand?

No shame in admitting you can't answer the question, so why personally attack me, when you don't even know yourself?

Ok, perhaps I read it was owner occupiers. Surely there's an amount of investment properties that are mortgaged for negative gearing purposes.