Hi All

Need to get my TFN sorted tomorrow (Monday), I want to go in person to Upper Mount Gravatt - Brisbane...

Please could somebody let me know if we can just arrive and complete applications as we did with Medicare - or do we need to make an appointment?

Many Thanks

As far as i am aware....you can apply for it on line

http://www.ato.gov.au/

Rob

Yup, if you are here and not an Aussie citizen you can do it online. Hubby well peed off - I was able to do mine online, he had to do his in person.

I think that you need a permanent address in Oz.....I may be wrong but i am sure someone here will confirm


Rob

Yup . But don't be an Aussie whatever you do

Hi - thanks for the reply's.

We want to just go and do it in person and get it done - seeing that we are driving past that way tomorrow. So - I just wanted to know whether I have to make an appointment.

We have our bank accounts as proof of address and medicare no's as well - along with permanent residency visa in passport.

From what I have read - this should suffice?

Sorry, yup, just go in with that lot you should be fine.

Many thanks! Got a job very suddenly - start on Wednesday already - so want to wrap up things before then.

Cheers!

Hi there,

We were given forms by Centrelink re TFN but they clearly stated that they couldn't be used if you had just emigrated? We had to apply for our TFN online and were advised that it would take up to 28 days to be processed. Don't know if anyone else could throw any light on this for you?

Julia

If you can't get it sorted and do have to do it on line, just tell your employers and they will hold back the excess until the number comes through so you don't have to get it back from the tax office. That's what hubby did anyway.