Why many Australians will reconsider life overseas after the Budget: ‘A passport is not a strategy’ By Brett Evans, Financial Planner Article published 18/05/2026 by Yahoo!Finance There is a phrase we started using around 12 months ago at my company Atlas Wealth Group: ‘the Economic Refugee.’ Not ‘refugee’ in the legal or humanitarian sense, but […]
In UAE, life goes on amid Iran’s attacks but the future is uncertain By global affairs editor Laura Tingle in Dubai Article published 17/03/2026 by ABC News A weird sense of normality in Dubai and Abu Dhabi these days sits awkwardly with the news coverage of burning buildings and reports of strikes on airports.
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Home, health and having fun – the tricks to retiring abroad Cheryl Fankhauser didn’t know a soul in her new home town when she took the plunge and moved to Malaysia. The former Tweed Heads nurse moved to World Heritage-listed George Town and two years later is part of a friendly community with
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Expats Face CGT Hit on the Sale of Aussie Family Home Expats face CGT hit on the sale of Aussie family home – Changes that will see more than 100,000 Australians working overseas lose capital gains exemptions on their local homes could encourage artificial behaviour or force prospective expatriates to sell to get
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Get Personal Finance in Order Before Overseas Posting Getting an overseas posting is an exciting time – but it is essential for anyone in this position to ensure their personal finances are ship-shape. Because unless you understand where you will be paying tax and how your retirement savings should be managed during an
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How Labor’s tax policy will deliver ‘perverse’ outcomes Financial planners have detailed how Labors tax policy will deliver perverse outcomes under their plan to deny franking credits to some self-funded retirees. Take the example of a husband and wife with $1 million who end up receiving a smaller income in retirement than a
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Advisers bemoan anti-SMSF policy amid super industry split Labor’s plan to scrap franking credit refunds will give superannuation funds linked to banks and unions a leg up while potentially knocking self-managed super funds off their strong growth trajectory. Yet the groups representing pooled super funds that stand to benefit are at odds with
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Capital gains tax exemption changes expected to ignite expat property fire sale Expat Sasha Vasiljkovic is about to put his property in the Melbourne suburb of Williamstown on the market. He doesn’t want to sell but an impending Turnbull government change will deny him one of the most sacrosanct of Aussie home-ownership
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ATO increasing data exchange with international regulators Data sharing between tax regulators in different countries is rapidly increasing, with the ATO turning in around 30,000 US expats to the IRS just last year according to a US tax lawyer. Moodys Gartner director Roy Berg explained that under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act,
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ATO increasing data exchange with international regulators Data sharing between tax regulators in different countries is rapidly increasing, with the ATO turning in around 30,000 US expats to the IRS just last year according to a US tax lawyer. Moodys Gartner director Roy Berg explained that under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act,
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