Or the Tax Office may tax you on your world-wide income! There had been a similar scare back in 1978 when I worked for PriceWaterhouse in Malaysia, and Australian companies with Australian staff working overseas made representation to the Australian government not to impose such a tax on the world-wide income of non-residents.
I don't know the bona fides of the information conveyed in this video clip which was sent to me by an old friend from my days in the tropics who, smarter than me, has stayed in the tropics, and probably has few worries over tax, unlike me who squirrelled away money all his life so as not to become a burden on society in his old age. More fool I am!
Of course, Labor has to think of more and more ways of funding its never-ending and ever-increasing vote-catching largesses to the great unwashed. And not just them but also dear old ladies who in the old days thought nothing of doing their own washing-up and, albeit slowly, cleaned their own houses, but now, thanks to the NDIS and under the disguise of some impairment - aren't we all somehow impaired? - have it all done for them. We have two very good friends who, merely slowed down by the natural advances of old age, can now draw on every facility the NDIS seems to offer them while they play bingo at the RSL Club.
And who could argue with them? "My friend gets her kitchen cleaned; why shouldn't I?" To paraphrase Karl Marx, "From each according to their ability, to each according to their disability." If only that were true! I still remember a chap I knew some years ago who applied and received grants year after year for one thing or another without ever turning them into anything that would make him a productive member of society. When I question the morality of this, his justification was that "If I didn't use those grants, they would shut the whole system down!" What else can you expect in a country where even the prime minister wears his housing-commission-flat upbringing like a badge of honour?
The placement of an apostrophe in "FINAL THOUGHTS" makes me feel hopeful that this is not the most professional advice and possibly just another scare campaign, but that is just me, living a constant battle between wanting to correct grammar and wanting to believe people.
P.S. We always have the 183-day test but this would change everything!
