When they put the proposal into a draft Bill to be debated - then and only then is it likely to be passed and enacted. You seem to forget that Govts have all sorts of 'proposals' under consideration and development - the vast majority go nowhere - and we only hear about the ones they Govt wants to 'test the waters' on. My understanding regarding that issue is that it was pretty much finalised in 2023 and will not be changed for a very long time. I did some research to confirm this - Gemini is great :) "Despite various government announcements and consultation papers aiming to modernize the framework with a simplified "bright-line" 183-day primary test and a 45-day secondary factor test, no new tax residency laws have been enacted. Because the statutory language has remained virtually unchanged since the 1930s, the current rules rely heavily on updated administrative guidance and evolving case law. The most recent major administrative update occurred on June 7, 2023, when the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) issued its finalized taxation ruling (TR 2023/1). This ruling consolidated decades of prior guidance and integrated key modern federal court precedents—such as Harding (2019), Addy (2020), and Pike (2020)—to clarify how the historical tests are applied to modern global mobile worker." And I will add that the ATO lehally cannot have one law/rule for workers overseas, and another for retired and married and another for holidaying or medical treatments etc etc etc - one ring (rule) rules them all. You need to re-read my last post about when/if the ATO will ever determine that someone is not a tax resident. The 183 day rule is NOT LAW it is one of 4 specific items that the ATO uses - you must fail/meet all 4 criteria before ATO will determine you are no longer a tax resident. And one of them is there must be no DTA between Australia and the country that person is living in, and in our case Thailand and Australia have a DTA. The argument is over - unless you are living in Somalia or somewhere like that. Speaking of which I have seen her vids over a long time and she is very much on the ball - but her points are often out of context, and some people (nudge nudge) take them out of context. She clearly states that under a DTA it is not taxed. Yes it is taxable income and has been for a long time (I can tell you why if you want) - but it is not taxed in the vats majority of cases (see Somalia comment). However, that does not mean Thailand will not tax it - under the DTA they can if they want to. Take to me when a draft Bill gets into Cabinet, and again when it passes Cabinet and goes to the floor of Parliament. Until then you are screaming about the sky falling - see my earlier past from Gemini - which confirmed what I already knew. 183 days is only one of four. I think you have got the tiger by the tail and you need to let go and get up a tree. That rule was brought in to ensure those living and working in Australia were made tax residents and had to pay income taxes on their earnings world wide. It was not brought in to take tax residency away from people - it was to make those in Australia tax residents - same as Thailand. PS - I Live and worked in Canberra for over 20 years for my sins - not in Govt but with Govt - I know a lot about those things and where to get information and I stay updated with CLink and ATO updates ands changes, and talk to old mates still stuck there.
