When you work in Australia, you must give your employer your Tax File Number. This and other information you give them tells them how much tax to hold from your pay. Without a Tax File Number, your employer will (after a grace period) have to withhold tax at 48.5%, furthermore, without a Tax File Number, you will not be able to do a tax return and get tax monies back.

Once again, it is easiest to arrange these things before you leave home. Travellers normally do this because when they arrive in Australia, they don't want to bother with arranging a tax file number and then have to wait around for the tax office to mail them out, especially because you will probably want to hit the road and see some sights!

Let us arrange your tax file number and we will email it to you so you can access it anywhere, anytime and you don't need to worry about providing the Tax Office with a permanent address in Australia!