Anybody done a working holiday visa in Aus? Tax refund q's.

[bigfatnick]

Hi all.

Recently returned from doing a couple of years in Aus on working holiday visas. Now has come the time that I need to claim back my tax and superannuation. I was lead to believe that there were loads of UK companies who would do it for me upon my return. After googling I don't see many beyond taxback.com

Has anyone done it? Can you recommend me the company you used?

Thanks
nick

[WhereamI]

Why would you pay someone to do this for you when a little research allows you to do it yourself for free?

[WhereamI]

If you do want to pay someone to do it just google Australia Tax Refund and you will get a page of them

[durbster]

We did it when still in Australia. It was just a matter of filling in a form and sending it off so I couldn't understand why other backpackers were paying companies to do it. I presume you could get the form sent to the UK...?

In fact, now that you mention it I don't think we ever claimed our super-annuation back as we thought it may be a problem if we decided to move there. I'd better look into that!

Edited by durbster on Friday 24th May 12:38

[Condi]

Do it yourself! Its really not that hard, I can offer advice although its been 2 years since I did mine. Got all of it back, $5000 give or take. Up to about $6400 (?) is very easy, beyond that it gets much harder, and quite quickly.

How much were you wanting to recover?