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Non-resident (foreign resident) tax

If you retire permanently overseas, Australian tax works differently — no tax-free threshold, only Australian-sourced income is taxed, and the Age Pension generally can't be claimed from abroad.

Tax residency changes the whole picture. A foreign resident (someone living permanently overseas) is taxed on the foreign-resident scale: no tax-free threshold (taxed from the first dollar at 30%), no Medicare levy, and no low-income or seniors offsets.

Source and the Age Pension

A non-resident is taxed only on Australian-sourced income. So an Australian defined-benefit pension or rent is taxed here, but foreign-sourced income — a foreign pension, or your overseas share portfolio — generally falls outside Australian tax. And the Age Pension usually can't be newly claimed from abroad, and existing entitlements are pro-rated after 26 weeks overseas, so the planner treats it as unavailable by default.

Turn this on in the wizard's Assumptions step ('Tax residency'). Non-resident tax is genuinely complex — source rules and tax treaties vary — so it's an estimate. Most people should leave it on 'Resident'.

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