Working holidaymakers from overseas were given a reprieve Tuesday from being hit with a so-called "backpacker tax" in Australia after a campaign by farmers and the tourism industry. The government, ...

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Stuart Rosewarne receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The government has reached a compromise with the Nationals over the so called “backpacker tax”, a tax of 32.5% in every dollar ...

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. SYDNEY, ...

Assistant Treasurer Kelly O’Dwyer today announced a “whole of Government review” of the tax, which farmers feared would deter much-needed seasonal workers. From July, working holidaymakers were facing ...

THE slashing of the controversial backpacker tax has boosted hopes Territorian mango farms will be able to recruit up to 4500 fruit pickers needed for imminent harvest While the tax drop from more ...

Treasurer Scott Morrison yesterday announced a compromise deal in which plans to hit foreign backpackers with a 32.5 per cent tax rate will be dumped in favour of a 19 per cent rate for earnings up to ...

A Mirboo North vegetable grower has warned the move to postpone the backpacker tax would create further uncertainty for holidaymakers. Emma Germano of Germano Produce, a 120-hectare cauliflower, ...

But one Liberal believes a lower tax rate than initially planned is appropriate, saying the opposition should get out of the way. As MPs begin debating government legislation on Monday, South ...

HINKLER MP Keith Pitt has called upon Senate crossbenchers to stop holding Australian farmers to ransom and finalise the backpacker tax. The Senate agreed to an amended 10.5% backpacker tax rate on ...