About Us
Carmichael International Tax provides Australian and foreign tax advice and tax returns for clients of all sizes on all expatriate issues. Specialties include income tax, PAYG, Living Away From Home Allowance (“LAFHA”), Super Guarantee, WA Payroll Tax, hypothetical tax, tax treaty advice, analysis of DTA’s, drafting and reviewing expatriate HR policies and tax equalization policies, minimizing expatriate costs for companies, and providing simple, easy-to-understand solutions to complex global tax problems.
Andy Carmichael has his Masters in International Tax, an Honours Degree in Business Finance, is a Registered Australian Tax Agent, is an Associate of The Tax Institute (Australia) (“ATI”), is UK tax qualified (“ATT”), and has more than 30 years’ experience working in Australia, the UK and Africa in expatriate and international tax. Andy spent 7 years in London specializing in UK personal tax, UK corporate international tax and UK expatriate tax where he worked with the world’s largest multinational clients, including Rolls-Royce.
Andy spent two years working for a foreign Inland Revenue as a corporate tax assessor and has worked on three continents for three of the “Big Four” (PwC, Ernst & Young and KPMG). He also worked in a boutique international tax firm in London providing UK, US and international tax advice for Hollywood actors, producers and directors (including 007 The World is Not Enough, Mission Impossible II, Enemy at the Gates and the Riverdance stage production).

In 2005, Andy was made head of tax training for PwC Perth’s expatriate tax team. In 2007, he spent a year back in Mayfair, London personally setting up and single-handedly running the Global Mobility division for the 4th largest property advisory company in the world. He then spent 5 years in Perth WA as Head of Expatriate Tax (Asia-Pacific) for a UK-based international payroll provider.
In 2012, Andy was offered the role of Tax Director at one of the “Big Four” tax firms in Perth, running their expatriate tax team, which he declined in order to start Carmichael International Tax in early 2013 and which now has clients all over the world.
Over the past 30 years, Andy has sent Australian assignees to more than 75 countries. He has detailed practical experience of dozens of countries’ tax systems, from South Korea to Burkina Faso, Singapore to PNG, South Africa to Brazil, and right across Europe, Africa and Asia.
Andy is also a very popular public speaker, giving presentations on expatriate tax to heads of tax firms and to HR Managers. He is renowned for his excellence, technical expertise, enthusiasm about international tax, attention to detail, value for money he provides and his ability to make complex tax issues easy (and interesting) for anyone to understand.