No budget reprieve for South Africans working overseas
Finance minister Tito Mboweni stands by predecessor’s decision to scrap a tax exemption
Expat Tax
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Cutting financial ties with South Africa
What does it take to walk away from your country when it insists on taxing your income earned overseas?
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Bahrain rejects expat remittance tax
Bahrain’s government has voted against a proposal to tax expat remittances, after it was deemed unconstitutional by the jurisdiction’s financial and economic affairs committee.
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Saudi expat tax rumours not true, confirms ministry
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor and Social Development has categorically denied a rumour that expat workers in the kingdom will be hit with a 10% tax on their monthly salaries.
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First million tax free, concedes South Africa
Plans to scrap a tax exemption on overseas earnings have been watered down by the South African Treasury and a tax-free allowance of ZAR1m (£57,143, $76,003, €63,904) introduced instead following pressure from expats and interest groups.
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Some workers exempted from Saudi expat tax
All contractors working on public sector projects that started before December 2016, when the levy was first announced, will be exempt from paying the expat workers’ tax.
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Repealing South African expat tax not ‘crazy’ says tax chief
A plan to scrap an exemption on taxing foreign employment income is not a “crazy proposal” when compared with other jurisdictions, the head of tax and financial sector policy at South Africa’s National Treasury has said.
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DeVere CEO slams South African expat tax as discriminatory
South Africa’s decision to tax expats and overseas workers on their foreign income is totally unjust, highly discriminatory and achingly regressive, says deVere Group founder and chief executive Nigel Green.
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Saudi expat fee causes ‘panic’ amid computer glitches
Expats living in Saudi Arabia have voiced concerns over the newly-introduced ‘family tax’ amid reports the online system set up to collect the payment continues to suffer from computer glitches.
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Expats leaving Saudi must pay new ‘family tax’ upfront
Expats living in Saudi Arabia will have to pay the newly-introduced ‘family tax’ upfront if they want to leave the Kingdom for any reason, the government has confirmed.
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Saudi expat tax to start in July
Saudi Arabia will levy a new tax on expatriates and their dependents from 1 July 2017 in a bid to boost the Gulf state’s local employment and revenues following persistently weak oil prices.