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The Australian government applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour

Australia's "backpacker tax" illegally targeted some foreign workers, a court ruled Wednesday, leaving people who spent time in the country on holiday working visas in line for tax rebates.

From 2017, Canberra applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour.

In a landmark decision Wednesday, 대만쉐어하우스 a Brisbane court ruled the levy -- dubbed the "backpacker tax" -- cannot be applied to a British woman due to a double taxation treaty between Australia and the UK.Similar agreements are also in place with the United States, Germany, Finland, 대만쉐어하우스 Chile, 대만쉐어하우스 Japan, Norway and Turkey according to international accounting

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. "That is a disguised form of discrimination based on nationality," judge

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. Australians begin paying tax once their annual income exceeds Aus$18,200.

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. The Australian Tax Office said it was considering whether to app

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. It added the ruling only affects a minority of working holiday makers "who are also residents, and only those from countries affected by a similar clause in the double tax agreement with the

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. In the case decided Wednesday, the British woman lived mainly in a Sydney sharehouse and stayed for the most part in the state of New South Wales -- meaning she was considered a "resident" for tax purpo

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. According to the ATO website, others -- who travel from place to place -- can be classed as "foreign residen

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. "In our view it was very clear, when the tax was introduced in 2016, that it discriminated against foreign workers and breached several international tax agreements," Taxback.com CEO Joanna Mur



. The public broadcaster estimates up to 75,000 backpackers could be in line for a refund worth hundreds of millions of dollars following Wedn

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. The government had originally sought to implement a levy of up to 32.5 percent, but this was met with outcry by farmers who rely on working-holiday makers fo
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