LAFHA gets three month reprieve
The Government has made a last gasp decision to delay its reforms to the Living Away From Home Allowance which were due to take place from Sunday.
The changes – which will see the axing of a perk worth thousands of dollars a year will now be put off until October 1.
The issue has triggered huge debate on Mumbrella’s comment threads because of the large number of workers from overseas and particularly the UK employed within the media and marketing industry.
The end of the allowance – which effectively allows recipients to claim living costs tax free – will see claimants thousands of dollars a year worse off. Even if employers do not increase salaries to make up the shortfall they will be hit with an increased super bill.
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Thanks, Aussies
I am too exhausted to comment.
Good luck everyone.
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The exodus of whingeing poms is delayed by another 3 months.. damn
Boom! I’ll take what I can get. Thanks Australia!
Champagne for breakfast!
Corfu for Christmas!
Ya bunch of pommie wankas
If I was Australian, I’d be slightly concerned about the bloke in charge of all this
Step forward Mr Swan….
1) November 2011 – ‘foreigners are rorting the system!’ .. even though more Australians get Lafha, including MP’s, than foreigners.
2) May 2012 – ‘we’ve decided to mix it up a bit, and just descriminate against the people who can’t vote us out’ … which is directly in breach of Australian Federal Tax laws set in stone about 70 years ago.
3) June 28th (leaving 1 working day for any changes to be sorted out by any HR department employing a foreginer) – ‘we’ll give you 3 more months because we’ve realised we were breaking about 8 laws and a few MP’s need to get rid of the leases on the bentleys’
I was all set to swear allegiance but i woudnt want this bloke in charge of where my taxes are going….
Lafha gone for temps from 30 Oct but many already gone from 1 Jul anyway.
For those highly paid rorting 457ers from the Eastern Suburbs looking for cheap housing Blacktown and Minto are excellent suburbs to get a real look at an Aussie way of life.
http://www.triplem.com.au/sydn.....iple-m-90s
Click on how you could live at Blacktown or move down a little and listen to the Minto song.
Really the rorting should be blamed not on gullible overseas employees blindly signing stupid aussie lafha employment contracts but on the companies paying less super, less state payroll tax, less workers compo insurances, leeching payroll companies and HR staff targetting KPI bonus payments for reduced company costs.
This is a allowance that was used for aussies to add to salary (x + lafha ) when working away from home then stuffed up for all by companies cutting costs giving rorts ( x – lafha ) without explaining the truth to overseas workers. This change has been mooted for 2 years and pushed by the unions backing the Labor government. Families from o/s here now are stuffed and this should not have happened!
I welcome this news. It permits me to rort the tax system for a few more months.
I’ll probably leave after that. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to stash the cash.
wow…. as a normal Englishman, the above comments saying ‘wahoo, we milked more cash’ etc or something similar do not reflect my views in any way. I realise they are a childish attempt to fan the flames by a morinic minority but many a true word is spoken in jest. go home wankers, youre emabarrasing
LAFHA abusers are working in every mining company in this country. The tax benefit should rightfully be scrapped because most of the people benefiting from it already earn 4 times what the average Australian does and 4 times what they would earn in their own (economically collapsed) country.
Just happy to have more time to sort out finances. When you leave your home country for a job with a contract that states an amount you will make with LAFHA benefits, you organise your life with the anticipation of making that amount. When someone all of a sudden informs you that you are about to take a 25% pay cut in 2 months time (bringing your pay to less than the job you left in your home country) even though you have fulfilled your obligations, its tough to stomach, even seems a bit unfair. The 3 months extra is a nice and welcomed time to adjust or to reconsider if its economically viable to stay.
A big thanks goes to Damps for pulling this off……..
Dear Aussie(s),
your argumentation, esp no 5 above reminds me of the attitude and laws which were implemented for the jews in Europe in the 1930s, by a person you presumably were fighting against in WW2.
Your attitude is indeed frightening
Another bungle by the Aussies elected Government… its one after the other here. Australia needs to import “skilled” migrants to get anything meaningful done….. when the world starts turning watch the exodus of skilled workers followed by a bigger skill shortage but the short sighted Government cant see it yet………
Bring on the next Maggie Thatcher to crush the Unions as they have Australia crippled!
What a rort! Waste of tax payees money…It will be all over soon
Looks like LAFHA has been referred to a House Committee! This will report back to parliment so the lafha bill – tax measures no. 4 can be passed into law for 1 Oct 12. This currently has no transistion for temps. sorry guys.
http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliame...../index.htm
Links do not work yet, but send comments direct to members now.
Do not get your hopes up though, it has 4 labor stooges of 7 members in it.The Labor members are all Union backed in and are really Swan puppets. Oh hang on one of the government members is Craig Thomson the member famous for his credit card rorting. So if you want to continue rorting lafha, lobby the bloke that is the number one rorter in Aus. He may even shed a tear for you to help out.
To those Aussies who moan about whinging poms;
1. Who else is going to come here and help you build your economy…..it’s not going to be built by a bunch of ute driving, stubbie drinking, hi vis t-shirt wearing aussie’s now is it!
2. We have to have some benefit for putting up with the aussie’s I spoke about in point 1
3. Rest assured, once the Chinese economy collapses and yours follows suit, we will all go back home as the rest of the world will be back on its feet by then!
Ta ta for now!
Can you get a refund on your Corfu tickets and that bottle of champaign. Might be required for the one way to the UK!
I rort, therefore I am.