Thailand’s city Chiang Mai was recently rated by the Travel and Leisure readers as their third top city in the world, indicating the global growing appreciation for Southeast Asia as…
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If you’re immigrating to Australia to live there permanently, or even work on a temporary basis, you’ll encounter the Australian Tax Office (ATO). Australian tax can be fairly complicated, so…
One of the top questions when someone plans to immigrate to a new country and become an expat, is “What’s the cost of living like?” The ideal scenario is finding…
As expats make plans to leave their home countries and move abroad, they are prone to making some common financial mistakes that leave them out of pocket and can impact…
If you’re thinking of becoming an expat, or are one already, you probably chose to become one for a specific reason. It could be work related, or perhaps you have…
A few years ago South Africans weren’t allowed to transfer the proceeds of their retirement annuities offshore before age 55. In 2008, however, a change in tax legislation made it…
Migration has made a lot of headlines in the past few months and years. Not only has widespread migration from African nations to South Africa sparked xenophobic outbreaks, but in…
Emigrating from South Africa could be a challenging experience – the administration and organisation involved is a huge and laborious task. So it’s no surprise that after getting the green…
Emigrating from South Africa can be an administrative nightmare. You need a visa, certified documents, original documents, work, a place to stay, schools, transport, a passport, accounts and a whole…
According to several migration consultants, the interest in emigration from South Africa has increased dramatically since President Jacob Zuma’s announcement on Wednesday, 9 December 2015, that Minister of Finance, Nhlanhla…