Description
Help your New Zealand clients navigate the complexities of Australian tax with this updated 2025 webinar—covering key rules, common risks, and practical insights for cross-border tax compliance
Each year, thousands of New Zealanders move back and forth between their country of origin and Australia. No two tax systems are quite so intertwined as Australia and New Zealand so if you have clients who are thinking of coming to Australia, are already in Australia or have spent time in Australia and subsequently returned to New Zealand, the chances are they will have some Australian tax issues.
The purpose of this webinar, updated and refreshed for 2025, is to give New Zealand practitioners an overview of the Australian tax system, discuss how it may apply to New Zealanders and then to focus on some of the common risk areas your clients may fall into.
The webinar will cover:
- Australian residency rules as they apply to New Zealanders, with particular emphasis on the advantages to New Zealanders of Australian temporary residency rules
- General overview of Australian income taxes, capital gains tax (CGT) and goods and services tax (GST)
- Impact of the Australia/NZ Double Tax Agreement on typical client situations
- How the normally CGT-free status of the main residence may no longer apply for New Zealanders departing Australia
- Taxation of New Zealand working holidaymakers in Australia
- Overview of tax rules on investment properties for New Zealanders
- Taxation of New Zealand employment and business income in Australia
- Australian GST obligations for New Zealanders trading over the internet
- Overview of Australian trust taxation rules, including review of how NZ beneficiaries of Australian trusts (including deceased estates) are normally treated
- Capital distributions from NZ trusts to Australian resident beneficiaries
LEARNING OUTCOMES
Participants will gain an understanding of how the Australian tax law can apply to your clients and the common situations they may find themselves in. The knowledge gained can then be taken back to the office to be applied to your present and future clients who find themselves or their families exposed to Australian taxes, either through migration, employment, business or investment.
SUITED TO
The webinar provides an introductory and intermediate level of knowledge ideal for the development of staff within tax agent and accounting practices who act for individual clients and small businesses with direct or indirect exposure to Australian tax laws. This could be through migration, marriage, family ties, business or employment links or investment.
PRESENTER
Mark Chapman, Director of Tax Communications, H&R Block Australia
Mark Chapman is the author of Life and Taxes: A Look At Life Through Tax (July 2017) and the second through to the eighth editions of Australian Practical Tax Examples (2019-2025), all published by Wolters Kluwer CCH.
He has over 25 years experience as a tax professional in both the UK and Australia, specialising in tax for small business and individuals. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, the Chartered Institute of Taxation and is a fellow of CPA Australia. He holds a Masters of Taxation Law with the University of New South Wales.
Since 2015, Mark has been Director of Tax Communications with H&R Block Australia. He writes regularly on tax issues for numerous media outlets and presents on topical tax topics at seminars and other events. He broadcasts frequently on radio and television and writes a regular column for Money Magazine and Yahoo7 Finance. As a tax practitioner in the UK, he occupied a number of senior positions before moving to Australia in 2007 to join the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) as a senior director.