Do I need a tax file number?

Yes. Apply for a TFN when you arrive. Without one your employer must withhold at the top rate of tax plus Medicare — 45% if you are a foreign resident, 47% if you are an Australian resident for tax.

Do I need to lodge a tax return?

Yes, if you earned Australian income during the financial year. You may get a refund if too much tax was withheld.

I'm on a temporary visa. Do I declare my income from home?

Being an Australian resident for tax normally means declaring worldwide income — but if you are also a temporary resident (you hold a temporary visa and neither you nor your spouse is an Australian citizen or permanent resident) most of your foreign income is exempt. You declare income you earned in Australia, capital gains on taxable Australian property, and in some cases employment income for services you performed overseas while a temporary resident. Other foreign income and capital gains on property that is not taxable Australian property do not have to be declared at all. The ATO's example: Kerrie is a temporary resident who is also an Australian resident for tax. She owns a house in New Zealand. If she is still a temporary resident when she sells it, she does not declare the capital gain in her Australian tax return.

What happens to my super when I leave?

You can claim your superannuation through DASP (Departing Australia Superannuation Payment) once your visa expires and you leave Australia. Tax is withheld at 35% on the taxable component, or 65% if you held a working holiday visa (417 or 462).

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Tax for non residents Australia — non-resident tax rates and foreign worker tax

If you're a foreign resident for tax, you don't get the $18,200 tax-free threshold and you don't pay the 2% Medicare levy. Holding a temporary visa does not decide that on its own, so check which scale is yours before you use these numbers.

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Not sure you are a foreign resident? Many temporary visa holders are not — a student on a course of 6 months or more, or someone on a work visa who has settled here, is usually an Australian resident for tax and gets the $18,200 threshold. Run the Tax Residency Quick Check first, or open the calculator on resident rates instead.

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How to Use This Calculator

1Click the button above to open the Salary Tax Calculator
2Non-resident is pre-selected for you
3Enter your annual salary or hourly rate
4See your take-home pay with foreign resident tax rates

How Are Temporary Residents Taxed?

"Temporary resident" and "foreign resident for tax" are two different things, and you can be one without the other. Temporary resident is about your visa. Foreign resident is about whether you are living here, and it decides which tax scale applies to you.

If you are a foreign resident for tax purposes, you pay tax from your first dollar of Australian income with no tax-free threshold, and you do not pay the 2% Medicare levy. If you are an Australian resident for tax — which covers a lot of temporary visa holders, including most students on a course of 6 months or more — you get the $18,200 threshold and resident rates instead, so the figures on this page would overstate your tax considerably. Check your residency before you rely on either.

Your employer withholds tax from each pay using the scale you declared on your tax file number declaration. At the end of the financial year, lodge a tax return to claim any refund or pay any shortfall.

Foreign Resident Tax Rules

No tax-free threshold: Residents get $18,200 tax-free. Foreign residents pay tax from $0.
No Medicare levy: You don't pay the 2% Medicare levy as a foreign resident.
Australian income only: Foreign residents only pay Australian tax on Australian-sourced income.
If you are a resident and a temporary resident: Being an Australian resident for tax normally means declaring worldwide income — but if you are also a temporary resident (you hold a temporary visa and neither you nor your spouse is an Australian citizen or permanent resident) most of your foreign income is exempt. You declare income you earned in Australia, capital gains on taxable Australian property, and in some cases employment income for services you performed overseas while a temporary resident. Other foreign income and capital gains on property that is not taxable Australian property do not have to be declared at all.
PAYG withholding: Your employer withholds tax from each pay at the rate for the residency you declared. Declaring the wrong one means the wrong amount comes out of every pay until you correct it.

Tax Tips for Temporary Residents

•Declare your residency status correctly on your TFN declaration form
•Lodge a tax return each year - you may be entitled to a refund
•Keep records of your super contributions for DASP when you leave
•Check if your country has a tax treaty with Australia to avoid double taxation

Frequently Asked Questions

Official Sources

Rates checked against the ATO — verified 18 August 2026

Estimates only. Not financial or tax advice. Full disclaimer for your rights and our limitations of liability.

Rates and thresholds last updated for the 2026–27 financial year.

About this calculator

This calculator exists to show you the arithmetic. It applies published Australian rates, thresholds and formulas to the numbers you enter and shows the working, so you can check it. That is all it does — it produces a number and describes what the number is. It does not recommend anything and it holds no opinion about any financial product.

What can move this result

It only knows the figures you type in. Offsets, deductions, prior-year losses, other income, your partner's position and anything you have not entered are not in the result, and any of them can move it a long way.
Rates and thresholds change, sometimes mid-year and occasionally with retrospective effect. Each calculator shows the financial year and the verification date it is working from — outside that year the result is wrong rather than approximate.
Assumptions are set to a reasonable default and every non-statutory one can be changed. Defaults are not predictions, and a small change to a growth or inflation assumption compounds into a large change in a long projection.
Where a result reaches two or more years into the future it is shown in today's dollars as well as future dollars, because a future-dollar figure overstates what the money will actually buy.
It is a generic calculator. It is not built around any particular product, it does not compare the market, and it cannot tell you whether a product is suitable for you.

This calculator is not intended to be relied on for the purposes of making a decision in relation to a financial product. Before you make a financial decision, consider obtaining advice from someone who holds an Australian Financial Services Licence. We do not, and we cannot advise you.

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About this calculator

What can move this result

It only knows the figures you type in. Offsets, deductions, prior-year losses, other income, your partner's position and anything you have not entered are not in the result, and any of them can move it a long way.
Rates and thresholds change, sometimes mid-year and occasionally with retrospective effect. Each calculator shows the financial year and the verification date it is working from — outside that year the result is wrong rather than approximate.
Assumptions are set to a reasonable default and every non-statutory one can be changed. Defaults are not predictions, and a small change to a growth or inflation assumption compounds into a large change in a long projection.
Where a result reaches two or more years into the future it is shown in today's dollars as well as future dollars, because a future-dollar figure overstates what the money will actually buy.
It is a generic calculator. It is not built around any particular product, it does not compare the market, and it cannot tell you whether a product is suitable for you.