Your situation
The trap depends on what you own
The tax mechanics of leaving Australia are the same law for everyone, but which part of it bites depends entirely on your situation. A founder’s problem is that the company doesn’t move with them; a property investor’s is a main-residence-exemption cliff that most people discover after they’ve fallen off it; a family’s is a travel pattern that quietly argues they never left. Each page below narrates that situation’s trap in plain English, then lays out its tool path in the order that avoids re-entering the same numbers twice.
Starting from a persona sets a flag on your local profile so every tool asks the right questions first. It never changes the maths, and you can hold more than one, a founder with an investment property is both.
The Founder
Your company doesn’t automatically move with you, and selling it around departure is the biggest order-of-operations decision you’ll make.
7-tool path · starts with the Residency Risk Quiz
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The Crypto Investor
Crypto is non-TAP: leaving is itself a taxing event on your whole stack, unless you plan parcel by parcel.
7-tool path · starts with the Residency Risk Quiz
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The Remote Employee
Keeping your Australian job while “moving” is the single most common way to stay an Australian tax resident by accident.
6-tool path · starts with the Residency Risk Quiz
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The Property Investor
Your property is TAP. Australia never lets go. The trap isn’t the rent; it’s the main residence exemption cliff and the frozen discount.
6-tool path · starts with the Residency Risk Quiz
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The Family
School fees, a spouse’s ties, and “every school holidays back home”. Families fail residency on pattern, not paperwork.
6-tool path · starts with the Residency Risk Quiz
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The Retiree
Franking credits, super preservation and an SMSF that can’t leave the country: retirement income is built for residents.
6-tool path · starts with the Residency Risk Quiz
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The Returner, moving back?
Coming home is its own tax event, and the biggest planning opportunity of the whole journey sits in the weeks before the plane lands: a cost-base reset on what you realise first, and a residency restart date that decides which year taxes what.