British Expats - schooling

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Originally Posted by Tubbs2Oz (Post 9423215)

If you were to come over on a temporary visa you would have to pay an extra $4000+ per year on top of the voluntary and other contributions that the others have mentioned. As long as you're PR you're fine.

Our voluntary contribution for primary school is $112, then we had about an extra $80 for other random things and then little things crop up in the year like excursions and "incursions"!

This fee only applies to NSW and ACT - NSW is $4.5k pa per child and ACT is between $8k and $12k depending on the age. Other states are free for temporary residents (not students' dependents of course - they cop the $10k + fee)

Don't forget the education tax refund.

If you earn under the salary limit (family income under $98,769-$148,422 depending on # of kids) you can claim a maximum refund of $397 for each primary school child you have and you can claim a maximum refund of $794 for each secondary school child.

http://www.educationtaxrefund.gov.au/