These have been requested by overseas tax authorities where I worked for a period of time. Note, the requesting jurisdiction does not have a double tax agreement with Australia and has a long list of official documents they want to see in order to verify I am an australian tax resident. These include tax residency certificates, tax returns and employment contracts.
Hi @TLimani,
You can request a Certificate of residency. This certificate will show that for a certain period of time you were an Australian resident, and you were liable to pay tax here. For copies of tax returns you can use our Copies of tax documents request, we should have information for the years you're after.
As for employment contacts, we don't have those. You'd need to look through your personal records.
Hi @TLimani,
You can request a Certificate of residency. This certificate will show that for a certain period of time you were an Australian resident, and you were liable to pay tax here. For copies of tax returns you can use our Copies of tax documents request, we should have information for the years you're after.
As for employment contacts, we don't have those. You'd need to look through your personal records.
So an individual/sole trader only has the option of printing out past Notice of assessments and not receiving them in the post? As my documents have been requested with Apostilles, this means I will have to notarise each one first before DFAT could provide apostilles. Whereas if the document is provided by the ATO they could legalise it directly. As I need five years worth of tax documents the costs add up. Thanks
Hi @TLimani,
Are you asking if we can certify the document being true and correct when we issue it to you?
You've the option to request a paper copy to be sent to you.
Thankyou. Yes I was looking for a way to request a paper copy of past notice of assessment. I didn't find any online form for requesting it. Should I call the ATO?
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