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Calculators and tools for visa holders, temporary residents and people moving to or leaving Australia
Tax residency turns on whether you are living here, not on your visa type — the ATO applies the resides test, the domicile test, the 183-day test and the Commonwealth superannuation test, and meeting any one of them is enough. Plenty of temporary visa holders are Australian residents for tax. Use the Tax Residency Quick Check for an initial read, and the ATO's own residency tool for anything you're relying on.
Yes. Working holiday makers on a 417 or 462 visa are taxed at a flat 15% from the first dollar up to $45,000, then ordinary resident marginal rates above that — there is no tax-free threshold. Use the working holiday rates if you are a foreign resident for tax, or an Australian resident who is not a national of a non-discrimination article (NDA) country. Nationals of Chile, Finland, Germany, Israel, Japan, Norway, Turkey or the United Kingdom who are Australian residents for tax purposes are taxed on the same basis as a resident Australian national instead — which means the tax-free threshold rather than 15% from the first dollar. The High Court decided that in Addy v Commissioner of Taxation on 3 November 2021. If that might be you, check your residency before assuming the backpacker rate is your answer.
If you were on an eligible temporary visa (not a permanent resident or citizen) and it has expired or been cancelled, you can claim your super as a Departing Australia Superannuation Payment (DASP). Tax is withheld at 35% on the taxable component, or 65% if you held a working holiday visa — higher than a normal super withdrawal either way.
It depends on your tax residency, not on your visa. If you are a foreign resident for tax you get no tax-free threshold and pay tax from the first dollar. But many temporary visa holders are Australian residents for tax — the ATO treats an overseas student enrolled in a course of 6 months or more as usually being one, and so is someone on a work visa who has settled here — and they get the $18,200 threshold, or a part-year share of it in the year they arrive. Working holiday makers have their own scale below $45,000. Check which applies to you before you fill in a TFN declaration.
These tools are for general information only. They are not migration or legal advice. For tax residency use the official ATO tool; for citizenship use the Department of Home Affairs.