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 Preparing to move abroad: Finances

Financial issues Living abroad is not just for the rich and retired anymore. More and more students and families are living the expat life. Average American families who you might find living in a small house in an older neighborhood; recent graduates of graduate school, children, and living on little more than a teacher's salary while student loans loom over their heads are taking jobs wherever they can get them...

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 Expats in Asia best paid, but U.S. and UK-based suffer

News Want the good life despite the dire economy? Head east, according to a survey showing some of the world's highest-paid expatriates live in Asia and the Middle East. A third of all expats in Russia -- the highest proportion in the world -- earn more than $250,000 a year, followed closely by expats in Japan and Qatar...

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 Govt to tax Australian expat wages

Financial issues The Australian Government is facing another fight over tax changes in its Budget - this time over rules affecting expatriate workers. Expats on contracts of two years or less are exempt from paying Australian tax while overseas. But the Treasury says that means that thousands of highly paid workers pay little or no tax, and it wants to tighten up the rules. Employers say the changes will make it more expensive to send local workers offshore. A Senate committee has called for changes to the new rules...

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 Running away from loans

Financial issues From the Personal Finance forum:

"Have just read the thread UK debt when living abroad amongst
others and I am absolutely disgusted and appalled that people do
this and get away with it. They go on a spending spree, accumulate
debts they cant afford to pay back and then buggar off abroad hiding
from their creditors. This has got to be on a par with the benefit
fraudsters or worse.

Dont these people have any shame? It is effectively stealing..."

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News Almost half of U.K.-based foreign professionals are considering leaving as they endure rising living expenses and the recession, more than in any other country, a survey by HSBC Holdings Plc showed...

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