Taxback.com said the ruling makes the tax “unworkable” and is likely to force the Australian tax authorities to review the measure in its entirety. Australian residents are not taxed on income they earn up to a threshold of 18,200 Australian dollars. The backpacker tax effectively denied visitors on working holiday visas this tax free threshold. The Australian government currently nets around 560 million Australian dollars per annum from the tax. The overall contribution of the backpacker sector to the Australian economy is estimated at 3.5 billion Australian dollars per year.

Source: The Irish Times October 30, 2019 09:22 UTC