Alan Collett

More details here:
http://www.gomatilda.com/news/article.cfm?articleid=379

Best regards.

Mrs Jackaroo

Superb!! We fly tomorrow and this is relevant to us - thanks Alan!

Rach xxxx

lesleys

Fan-bloody-tastic!

Buzzy--Bee

Alan, do you happen to know if this includes subclasses 444 and 461?

Thanks

Buzzy

rima+kids

Alan

Does this mean that until you become an Australian citizen you are exempt tax (PR visa is only for 5 years so must be counted as temporary?) Also, dont you need to be a "citizen" to get benifits?

Richie.

Buzzy--Bee

PR is permanent, that means for ever. Your PR status is renewable at the end of 5 years assuming you have not taken up citizenship. So I dont think this will apply to you.

Cheers

Buzzy

rima+kids

No, PR 136,it say's so on the visa, valid for 5 years - you have the option to apply for citizenship if you want ie 2 years in Oz (at the mo, soon to be 3) within the 5 years - after that you have to apply for a further visa (well thats how I read it)


Richie

Wendy

It is valid for Multiple travel to and from Australia for 5 years, after that you need either a RRV or citizenship ( which gives you an Oz passport). You can however stay in Oz forever with it as you are a permanent resident, providing you do not leave the country.

A temporary visa is one where you have to leave the country after the expiry date.

That is the difference

GinaUK

The 136 visa is a *permanent resident* visa; it's not temporary. Once you've validated the visa you have up to the 5 year date shown on the visa to move to Australia. If you haven't applied or don't yet meet the requirements for citizenship when those 5 years are up, you *do not* need to apply for a further visa to remain living in Australia. If after those 5 years (and not having citizenship) you want to go on holiday outside of Australia, you need to apply for a Resident Return Visa (RRV). Otherwise, you won't be able to get back into Australia from your holiday.

Have a look on the DIMA website; it's all explained there.

Gina

Alan Collett

A permanent residency visa allows you to live in Australia indefinitely. It is only if you want to travel outside Australia and return after the visa has expired that you need a RRV.

Alternatively you obtain Aussie citizenship and visas become a non issue.

Best regards.

Alan Collett

No it doesn't.

Best regards.

rima+kids

Thank you all for putting me right, must read slower and take it all in, not just skim across all the 100's of pages!!

Note to self - SLOW DOWN!!

thanks again

Richie.

Dinky

Any chance it could be applied retrospectively? We could do with a winfall right now!!

D

Wendy

NedKelly

Article 23, para 2 would seem to indicate that if you are a temporary tax resident in Australia you would not be liable to tax here on your UK source income but only if you were paying tax on it in the UK.

That doesn't mean that you get of scot free, you will pay tax somewhere. Either here or the UK.