Expat Tax
Cutting financial ties with South Africa
What does it take to walk away from your country when it insists on taxing your income earned overseas?
Bahrain rejects expat remittance tax
Bahrain’s government has voted against a proposal to tax expat remittances, after it was deemed unconstitutional by the jurisdiction’s financial and economic affairs committee.
Saudi expat tax rumours not true, confirms ministry
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor and Social Development has categorically denied a rumour that expat workers in the kingdom will be hit with a 10% tax on their monthly salaries.
First million tax free, concedes South Africa
Plans to scrap a tax exemption on overseas earnings have been watered down by the South African Treasury and a tax-free allowance of ZAR1m (£57,143, $76,003, €63,904) introduced instead following pressure from expats and interest groups.
Middle East | 21 Aug 17
Some workers exempted from Saudi expat tax
All contractors working on public sector projects that started before December 2016, when the levy was first announced, will be exempt from paying the expat workers’ tax.