scuffythetugboat

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During Roman times in England the climate was warm enough to grow grapes in the north.

It probably will but from what they said (today) is that they have to wait for written confirmation that the same rules will apply after April next year when the new pension kicks in.

Here's an update. For anyone that returns to the UK to live permanently, and they are being paid a benefit or an Australian pension, then they may not be able to use the time spent in Australia before 2001 to increase the UK pension. Whilst you reside in Australia the former Agreement cannot assist you. The DWP are waiting on confirmation that the Agreement can assist UK residents who retire after 6th April 2016.

I was in Australia when my mother died suddenly in the UK. I had no chance of seeing her before she passed away. I was in the same city in the UK as my father when he died suddenly. I had no chance of being by his side as well. Cherish the ones you hold dear while they are alive. Anyway, don't assume that because someone is older than you, that they will die first.

As we all have different circumstances it is better that each one of us makes our own enquiries by contacting the Future Pension Centre in the UK in writing. I have a letter dated 23 April 2015 which states: If you now live in the UK, any time you (or your husband, wife or civil partner if you are using their UK National Insurance (NI) contributions) lived in Australia, up to 5 April 2001, can be treated as a period for which UK NI contributions were paid. So the OP would be entitled to 25 or 26 years of pension out of the 35 years required for the full pension. The OP could probably add more contributions once they arrive in the UK.

If you meet all the criteria for a partner visa, why not knock on the front door?

Given that you may be out of work for a while you'd better claim the Newstart allowance from Centrelink. It would slow down the speed of your bank account emptying.

With 56000 tax jobs on the line who's going to ask you about your money? Try going onto the Inland Revenue website to find out about transferring money from Australia to the UK, you won''t get far, so if 56000 tax office employees who could perhaps answer your question get the boot who are you going to confess to? There's no one answering the phone calls now, let alone in the future. I'm no tax dodger, in fact when I'm paying 49c in the dollar I'm over the moon because I'm earning and paying tax which is one of the foundations of civilised society, but why go and root out a tax rule that no one has heard of and ask them to take more money off you? Costa Coffee wouldn't do it. Just out of interest. Anyone out there confessed or been caught?

What I'm really saying is that any ordinary bloke wouldn't know about such a complicated tax rule so why find out about it and then confess, thus, giving your money away.

I can't see it myself. The Inland Revenue staff population has been culled so much in recent years that they are now on the endangered species list.

Does the Inland Revenue know when you are in or out of the country, or is it down to the individual to tell them? Entering and leaving Australia is clocked to the minute, but entering and leaving the UK is done with a glimpse of a passport and off you go. I ask because I returned to live in the UK some years ago and transferred all my money from Australia to the UK in the July of that year. No demands or tax to pay, no one asked me and I didn't confess to something that I was ignorant about and I'm still a free man with all my money. It must be the honest people that have to pay I suppose because they tell the taxman everything.

Will it be a one way trip? Who knows what the future has in store for anyone. From other posts on here, if you wanted to apply for an Australian passport in the UK, there is a lot more hassle.

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Be not afraid, you are not alone. Once you've experienced living in Australia and then moving back to the UK, you will never be the same. While living in either country from now on something will remind you of the other country from time to time and may unsettle you or make you feel good. It's a natural thing so don't worry about it.

The problem in Perth now is that there's an army of very well qualified unemployed people chasing any and every job. Mining engineers working in call centres etc are displacing the people who only have experience in these jobs, and so it goes on. Maybe some of the people who came to Perth in the last 5 years will decide to return to where they came from whether it be overseas or interstate, you won't last long without an income that's for sure. It's not a recession officially in Australia but, in Perth at the moment, it certainly looks like all the other ones we've had.

We have life insurance with a UK company taken out before we came to Australia. When we came over here I asked about cover outside of the UK and they told me in writing that so long as the premiums were paid we are covered in anywhere. So if you have insurance in the UK yourself, just ask the same question.

They need the numbers now so that they know how many tins of spam to get.

As there is no rent being paid there is no income to declare to anyone anywhere. If you decide to sell the house in the future then UK capital gains tax would come into the equation if you sell it for more than you paid for it after the allowances are taken into consideration.

Perhaps when the indigenous gentlemen refrains from calling the new arrival a "white racist shitbag" methinks.

He initially worked in Australia then took another job overseas, he wasn't paying tax in Australia either, which probably triggered big brother looking at him. They probably looked at his tax records along with his international movements and bank account transactions and decided that he really isn't a resident.

I know of someone in a similar position. He received a letter telling him to leave the country, so he went.

On $204k you won't miss the levy on top of the tax that you'll pay and there is no allowance for dependence kids.

Why is it always the fault of everyone but themselves when someone stuffs up? 51 years is a very long time to let it sink in exactly what your status is. I know of British migrants who have lived here with PR for over 30 years and don't want to take out citizenship, that's their choice, but if the rules get changed again who's fault is it?

The tax system here is different from the UK.You will be taxed on what ever you earn, whether it be weekly or monthly, regardless of the tax bracket. So you will not receive the whole $17k in the first month. You will settle up at the end of the tax year being the 30th June every year when you do your tax return. paycalculator.com.au is a very helpful and accurate tool.