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The twelve months does start then. You can register for Medicare as an applicant for PR - http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/enablers/medicare/medicare-card/eligibility-for-medicare-card. Yes, there is a salary point at which the cost of a basic hospital policy is less than the Medicare Levy Surcharge you pay if you don't have it. Insurance is optional - you can rely on Medicare.

N are you planning to travel? Most airlines have a limit on how far ahead you can book - for example for BA it is 355 days.

QROPS have reporting obligations for a number of years after you transfer the money, so HMRC will find out if you withdraw the money. Any withdrawal that wouldn't be allowed in the UK is likely to attract an unauthorised payment charge (tax) of 55%.

I guess you will need to ring or visit an office. And check they have the correct address for you.

They send you a reminder just before the year is up, but (helpfully) the letter doesn't actually tell you what your deadline is. I rang the helpline, and they couldn't tell me the date, but arranged to send out the letter that your health fund needs to confirm no loading is payable. I knew I was close, so instead of waiting I went into my local office. After a lot of searching they managed to find the date and produce the letter. (The date is apparently on the 'Group' screen on the system, under 'Date association began' or something similar.)

I read it as he got PR from the old skilled migration visa, not a partner visa. He returned home and married a few months later, and now wants to take his wife to Australia. She will be the one applying for a partner visa, not him.

I think the partner visa is for his wife, not him.

It is.

The bank will deduct 10% withholding tax from the interest and pay it to the ATO - you won't need to complete an Australian tax return. You will need to declare the income on your UK tax return, and will get a tax credit for the amount of withholding tax paid.

And once you start paying it you pay it until you have had cover for 10 years.

Aren't Australian citizens issued with visas on arrival in the UK? Unlike travelling in the other direction, you don't need a visa in advance.

Unless you are old enough to take some of your pension as a tax-free lump sum, it has to be transferred intact. Any payment out of the scheme for anything else would attract a tax charge of 55%. If you are old enough to start drawing it, you need to check the Aus tax implications of taking out a lump sum.

In what way is it against human rights? If you are thinking that it infringes the right to family life, then I don't think there is a case. There is still a route for your mother to move to Australia (albeit an expensive route), and the Australian government isn't stopping you going to Italy to be with your mother.

They might be able to take them, but the remaining parent would likely be able to get a court order ordering the child's return. If the new country of residence is a signatory to The Hague Convention on child abduction then the court order would be enforceable there.

Rupert's point was how were you able to lodge an onshore application if your visa had a 'No further stay' condition on it. That condition usually means that you cannot lodge a visa application onshore.

Mine (paper submission in March last year) took 11 months. I didn't hear anything about it until I got the grant email.

You have to be an Australian resident in Australia on the day you claim the age pension - http://www.humanservices.gov.au/customer/services/centrelink/age-pension

When you submit your Australian tax return you will be making a declaration that the information given is accurate - so knowingly not declaring something that should be included is dishonest and illegal.

I'm not sure what you mean by that last part. Income doesn't become assessable in Australia just because you decide to bring it into Australia. If you earn interest on it once the money is in Australia then that interest income will be assessable, not the actual original income, for example.

What visa are you on? Are you UK citizens? Both have an effect. If you are on a temporary visa such as a 457 then your rental income is not taxable in Aus. If you have PR then it should be declared on your Aus tax return (when earned, regardless of whether you bring it over). If you are UK citizens then you are still entitled to a UK personal allowance, which will reduce the UK tax payable (it has been suggested that non-residents may lose the personal allowance, but nothing has been decided yet). Currently non-residents pay no UK CGT, but this is due to change from April 2015. If you sell within 3 years of moving out then you will have no CGT liability if the property was your main/only home. Your Aus CGT position depends on whether you sell within six years of becoming tax resident, and on whether you buy a property in Aus in the meantime.

Some would say that Commission of Audit's job is to make extreme recommendations so that the Government look more reasonable when they water everything down on budget night.

Yes, you probably are due a rebate. There is a form to tell HMRC you have left the country - I can't remember the number. When you send it in you can request a rebate.

Does he receive the rent gross, or after the tenant/agent deducts tax and pays it to HMRC? As he is a non-resident landlord, the tenant or agent should deduct tax and pay it to HMRC unless your husband has completed a Form NRL1 to register on the Non-Resident Landlords Scheme. If the agent/tenant is deducting tax, the amount they have deducted and paid over should be entered into that box, so he doesn't end up paying it twice.

Where did you lodge your application? That's what the question is asking.

Wrussell posted recently that DIBP have recently changed their policy, so that a BVA which is not in effect no longer gets cancelled when the holder leaves Australia.