Working holidaymakers from overseas were given a reprieve Tuesday from being hit with a so-called "backpacker tax" in Australia after a campaign by farmers and the tourism industry. The government, ...

MELBOURNE (Reuters) – Australia’s High Court found that the country’s practice of taxing young working tourists at a higher rate than local Australians for the same work was discriminatory on ...

In the final fortnight of the parliament for the year the government clinched some deals on major pieces of legislation. The backpacker tax deadlock has been broken with a deal between the government ...

From 2017, Canberra applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour. In a landmark decision Wednesday, a Brisbane court ruled ...

A British woman on Wednesday won a lengthy legal fight against Australia's "backpacker tax", after the country's top court agreed the levy discriminated against foreigners on wor... Already a Barron's ...

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is "angry" at her fellow senators, particularly party colleague Rod Culleton, after the Senate finally passed the backpacker tax on Thursday.

Farming and tourism groups are lobbying to stall the controversial measure, announced last year and kept in Tuesday’s budget to raise more than $500m over the forward estimates. It is due to come into ...

SYDNEY, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison on Tuesday lowered a proposed tax on backpackers who work in the country after rural opposition that the policy would undermine the goal ...

Australia's High Court found that the country's practice of taxing young working tourists at a higher rate than local Australians for the same work was discriminatory on Wednesday. MELBOURNE, Nov 3 ...