This is right if you are a resident of png and give up your australian residence (hence you have no tax to pay in australia but you lose access to australian benefits) If you remain an australian resident you can not be a png resident too so you pay tax from the first kina you earn, you do not get the first 7000 tax free. As a non residence you have to pay the 22%from the first kina you earn, hence the huge tax wack. It is the same as the australian system. We were told if you leave your family here and have a house that you return to the tax dept. now considers you a resident and it is very hard to get out of paying australian tax does anyone else have different advice?