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With Liz Truss' famous grasp of geography the markets may need to worry about where in the world (or even which world) she's moving the UK to.

You do of course have the option to deposit your money in more than one place (and even in more than one country/currency) if they'll only give you the maximum rate on a smaller balance and if you are concerned about what's going to happen to exchange rates.

But we can't alert the site to it when we can't get in. When we can get back in is only after they've found and fixed the problem.

Actually the issue isn't whether or not the lease is to a member of your family but whether or not the rental income is at an arms length price. Usually that means paying an independent valuer to assess the rent if it's let to a family member.

Use a service like Wise (there are many transfer companies to choose from but I find them the easiest to use) and you'll receive a lot more dollars in your account than if your sister just transfers from her bank straight to your Australian bank account.

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Normally your partner would be at a disadvantage compared to a candidate who doesn't have a status that leaves a worry if they can stay long term, but (depending on their skill set and the location) employers can't be as picky in the current market.

Might be quicker as there's no telling how long it will take HMRC to cancel the cheque and make the payment. Presumably you've sorted a way for your family member to transfer the money to you without losing a chunk in bank charges?

You could open an account with Wise. They don't take cheques but they do give you a UK sort-code and account number (as well as Australian, Belgian for your Euro and US for USD account details should you need them). Unfortunately you would need to return the cheque to HMRC and ask them to deposit into your "UK" bank account. Definitely would be the cheapest way of converting your cheque into AUD too as even if you find a bank that will still accept a foreign cheque it's going to charge a fortune to do so.

Why would the NHS write to someone in Australia?

You've got it all backwards. They turned you down because it's obvious that you are never going to borrow any money on that card. There's no profit in it for the bank if you aren't going to pay their extortionate interest rate. Yes they make a little bit from the vendors when you make a purchase - but they'll still do that if you use your debit card and they don't need to share that with the airmiles company.

A UK limited company is probably not the best way to do it as you'll have all the usual tax issues for the company (possibly complicated by having a non-resident director) and they'll have to register in Australia to comply with Australian payroll requirements. Most UK companies would pay someone in Australia as a contractor to avoid needing to operate an Australian payroll. Of course if your UK turnover is over the VAT threshold you'll have UK tax implications anyway. A sole trader in Australia is the simplest option (or an Australian company if you want to keep the liability at arms length) and if under the VAT threshold wouldn't need anything to be done in the UK. Note that to get Australian bookkeeping clients you will need to register with the Tax Practitioners Board as a BAS agent. It's illegal to give paid advice related to Australian tax (even on how to enter a GST transaction in an accounting ledger) if unregistered. Check their requirements for registration there's quite a lot of hoops to jump through.

Yes you can get Extras policies without hospital cover - but finding one that will cover all you Dental and optical (with or without hospital cover) is very difficult. Most have caps of only a few hundred dollars. Enough for check ups but not if you need anything done.

Also if you take out hospital cover insurance within one year of moving to Australia you are exempted from lifetime loading. And once you've paid the loading for 10 years you don't have to pay it any more.

A bank would probably be willing to give you an agreement in principle. What happens though is that to actually get your mortgage it has to go through the full approval process and have the loan agreed by the underwriters. If you are still in a probationary period at that point I think it would be a problem but if you can time it so that doesn't happen I can't see why you wouldn't be able to get the ball rolling before hand. Always make sure that if you make an offer on a property that it's clearly "subject to finance" even when you have got an agreement in principle since there's no obligation on the bank to follow through on those agreements. PS: I notice your user name is "Ausvisitor". I hope that's not an indication of your visa status or you won't be getting a mortgage!

"To the best of my knowledge, the department and all the councils are working to their full capacity"? I can't see how that can be true. Your own schedule shows they are only holding ceremonies on Tuesdays and not even on every Tuesday. That's an awful lot of spare capacity once you realise there are 6 other days of the week.

Even the UK favourite Sage is now available in Australia - although it's got a very small market share. The big players are Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks and Reckon (which was derived from QuickBooks as they were once the Australian licensee for the product).

While on occasions you need a professional qualification the Australians don't rate them. In my profession the highest qualification you can have in the UK is Chartered Accountant. The technical term in the UK for an accountant who has a degree but hasn't yet taken any professional exams is "unqualified accountant". In Australia however my bachelor degree counts as a higher qualification than the professional qualification whenever I'm are asked to list my highest qualifications (I've now also got a Graduate Diploma which is higher than the bachelor degree but would still be considered lower than the Professional qualification in the UK).

It depends upon whether or not you've been overseas. If you have been since you got your PR and spent more that a certain time in one country (I forget how long) you'll have been asked for an overseas police check from that country as part of the application. I needed a UK police check as I lived in the UK for another 3 years after getting PR. You don't need to submit an Australian police check. They run those for all applicants automatically.

You can talk about many things. But you can't charge a fee for tax advice in Australia unless you are registered with the Tax Practitioners Board (and no you can't get around that by claiming the tax advice came free with the financial services advice you charged for). Similarly you can't give financial advice unless you are licenced to do so. In some areas there's a lot more red tape in Australia than there is in the UK.

You probably need to work out if your need is more pressing for a financial advisor or a tax advisor. Financial advisors are not allowed to give advice about tax and Tax advisors are very limited in the amount of financial advice they are allowed to give (and very few have knowledge of both Australian and UK tax). Some bigger firms do employ both types of advisors but then you still have to talk to two (or more) different people.

One thing that happens is that a whole new year's quota opens up. This means if someone hasn't been granted a visa purely because the quota has been used up there's a chance that it will be granted on 1st July. This used to be a regular occurrence (my visa for example was granted on 1 July 2009 and emailed out just after midnight - it was still lunchtime on 30th June in the UK when I received it) but of course there have been so many changes to the system since then that might no longer be the case (I don't even know if EOIs have quotas but I suspect they do).

There is a double taxation agreement with Ireland and under the terms of that a pension is only taxable in the country that the recipient resides. Because on a 600 visa the person is a visitor (even where it is a long visit) I would presume they would not become an Australian resident for tax purposes and so as a resident of Ireland the pension would only be taxable in Ireland. I would however expect that the temporary parent visa would be seen differently (if you showed an intent to remain in Australia and had set up home in Australia and had sold or rented out your home in Ireland) and that you would be treated as no longer residing in Ireland and residing in Australia (for tax purposes) instead. As such you would be taxed in Australia and pay no tax in Ireland. Ultimately though it's up to the courts to decide who is and who isn't an Australian Resident for tax purposes. At one time the holder of a Working Holiday Visa was always assumed to be non-resident but the courts threw a spanner in the works of that assumption by saying in certain circumstances a WHV holder can be an Australian Resident. You have to look at all the facts in each case and not just at what type of Visa. For example you could have a temporary parent visa but show no intent to remain in Australia and continue to maintain a home in Ireland. As to the second part of your question - that would depend upon how much the Pension is. PS: Just read up about the 870 visa - it's a different visa to I was thinking of (which is the one that leads on to Permanent Residency) but I don't think it changes the above much. Even if it's only extendable for 10 years you can still be a resident in that period but all the circumstances need to be looked at.