Holidays are in your mind if you are in Australia on working holiday visa<\/a>. But don’t forget to lodge your tax returns till end of October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You should get some tax refund if you did some work last financial year which is from the 1st of July until 30th of June. Australia is not the cheapest place to travel and every dollar counts. Use Australian income tax calculator<\/a> to check how much taxes you paid last year.  I am sure you can get back some taxes you paid. It most likely you were taxed as not resident in which case you paid much more taxes as you should. You don’t pay taxes if you are an Australian resident for tax purposes and make less then $18000 per year. Because you are temporary resident some employers will insist that you are a non-resident for tax purposes and deduct higher rate then they should. Also it can be deducted Medicare levy<\/a> from your salary though you most likely have private travel insurance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some may try convince you to use\u00a0a tax agent to complete\u00a0 your tax returns for the previous income year. Don’t fell for it. Why should you be paying somebody $100 when completing tax returns is so\u00a0 straight forward and to do it you don’t need to know any tax rates for holidaymakers in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Download e-tax software from Australian Taxation Office (ATO) website<\/a>, install it and it will guide you through all the steps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n