British Waitress Wins Discrimination Fight Over Australia's "Backpacker Tax"
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Catherine Addy, who had worked in Sydney in 2017, took her battle against the levy all the way to Australia's High Court.
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 working holiday visas.
Catherine Addy, who had worked in Sydney in 2017, took her battle against the levy all the way to Australia's High Court, which unanimously ruled in her favour -- putting potentially thousands of other backpackers in line for a tax refund.
From 2017, Canberra applied a 15 percent levy for every dollar earned for two categories of working holiday visas linked to seasonal labour.
Australians begin paying tax once their annual income exceeds Aus$18,200 (US$13,500). That was also the threshold for working holiday visas before it was changed.
