Overseas employment income

Supporting document requirements for objections

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Please send the documents and information listed with your objection form. Disregard the documents and information on this page that you have previously provided.

Overseas employment income

• Were you an Australian resident for income tax purposes while overseas?
• If you were an Australian resident before you departed but now consider yourself to be a foreign resident, what changes occurred in your personal circumstances that caused you to change your residency?

If you consider yourself to be a foreign resident provide the following information:

• What date did you change your residency?
• Provide the exact details of the visas granted by the overseas country.
• Provide copy of passport.
• During the period you were a foreign resident, which country did you consider your usual residence to be and why?
• Did you visit Australia during the time you were a foreign resident? If so, provide details of each visit.
• Where did you stay when you were in Australia?
• If you had a family (spouse, partner, children) where did they reside during the period you were a foreign resident?
• Did your family accompany you overseas for all or part of the time you were outside Australia? Provide details.
• If you had children were did they attend school during the period you were overseas?
• Did you rent out your principal place of residence in Australia for the period you were a foreign resident?
• If you rented out your place of residence, what did you do with your household effects?
• Provide details of any assets you own in Australia and overseas while you were a foreign resident.
• What social and sporting connections do you have with Australia? Provide details.
• What social and sporting connections do you have with the country where you are living? Provide details.
• Were you or your spouse a Commonwealth Government of Australia employee for superannuation purposes? If yes, provide the following details:
• the dates of the employment period(s)
• the type of employment, and
• the name of the superannuation fund(s) you and/or your spouse were a member of.
• Do you or your spouse still hold a position with the Commonwealth Government of Australia and, therefore, remain eligible to contribute to the superannuation fund?
• Have you advised the Australian Electoral Office to have your name removed from the electoral roll?
• Have you advised any Australian financial institutions with whom you have investments that you are a foreign resident so that non-resident withholding tax can be deducted?
• Have you advised any Australian companies with whom you have investments that you are a foreign resident?
• Have you advised Medicare or health insurance provider to have your name removed from their records?
• Have you lodged tax returns in any other countries? Please provide details and copies of assessments of tax.
• What did you state as the reason for going overseas when completing the Australian Immigration Outgoing passenger card?
• Did you have a capital gains tax event I1 to your assets because you ceased to be an Australian resident?

If you were an Australian resident overseas provide the following information:

• Please indicate if your foreign service was directly attributable to (advise which one):

	your deployment outside Australia as a member of a defence force or a police force by an Australian government, or an authority of such a government
	activities of your employer in operating a public fund declared by the Treasurer to be a developing country relief fund
	activities of your employer, provided that your employer is a prescribed charitable or religious institution located or pursuing objectives outside Australia
	activities of your employer in operating a public fund established to provide monetary relief to people in a developing foreign country who are distressed as a result of a disaster
	delivery of Australian official development assistance by your employer
	an Austrade approved project
	none of the above

• Were you working for the government or a private sector employer?
• What date did the employment commence?
• What date did the employment end?
• A copy of your employment contract or conditions of employment.
• Was there an option to extend the contract? If so:
• Did you take up this option?
• How long was the extension for?
• The date you left Australia and the date you returned to Australia.
• Did you take any breaks in your employment? If yes:
• For how long?
• What type of leave did you take?
• Where did you spend this time?
• If you returned to Australia during this period of employment, provide details of any work duties you performed while here.
• If you worked in multiple countries, detail what countries you worked in and the dates you worked there.
• If you worked on a cyclical basis, provide details.
• Did you pay tax on the income derived overseas? If not, why not?
• Was there a memorandum of understanding in existence between the Australian Government and the government of the country you were working in? If yes, provide a copy - particularly the section regarding taxation of your employment income.
• Details of the income and allowances you received.
• Provide a copy of your passport.