For founders leaving Australia

The problem isn't the tax.

It is getting every decision into one coherent sequence.

International Broker coordinates your Australian departure, overseas company structure, personal residency, banking and implementation, so every specialist works toward the same commercial and lifestyle outcome.

$10m+
Tax saved for clients through lawful, fully disclosed international planning and implementation.
$1bn+
Founder-led. Previous experience includes structuring debt for HNW and SME clients and operating multi-seven-figure businesses across multiple jurisdictions.
48 jurisdictions
Covered across our incorporation, residency and personal-tax knowledge base, so the shortlist starts broad, then narrows to what fits.

Australian starting point. International outcome.

Moving overseas is easy. Moving an operating business properly is not.

Your personal tax residency, Australian company, shareholdings, future exit, family, banking and destination-country obligations can all move on different timelines.

We bring the full picture together, identify the decisions that depend on each other, coordinate appropriately qualified Australian and overseas specialists, and drive the work through to completion.

One coordinated plan

Every specialist stays in their lane. We make the lanes connect.

Your accountant, lawyer and tax adviser remain responsible for advice within their professional scope. International Broker owns the information flow, sequencing and implementation across them.

01

What you want

Where you want to live, how the business should operate, what you are building toward and which options you want to preserve.

02

Your full picture

Your companies, ownership, income, assets, residency, family, customers, team, banking and existing professional advice.

03

The right specialists

Qualified Australian and overseas advisers are selected for the work their jurisdiction and discipline require.

04

Implementation

We manage dependencies, documents, decisions and hand-offs so the right work happens in the right order.

The implementation standard

A structured, repeatable system, not months of red tape.

Accountants and lawyers are essential, but cross-border work often stalls when every firm waits for the next brief, document or decision. The founder is left translating between them while every day of delay costs money.

Compliant and fast. We run the move through a proven sequence, keep each specialist inside their scope and push every dependency forward. No pomp. No unnecessary meetings. No vague hand-offs.

Client experience

The move stopped feeling too complicated to begin.

“Honestly, it wasn’t that hard. We set up businesses abroad. He got in touch with my accountant at home.”
Kirk
KirkAustralian founder living overseas

Edited for length from the supplied client testimonial.

Client experience

Straight answers from someone who had actually done it.

“All the information on YouTube, Google, and AI that I was trying to find, it was all contradicting itself.”
TomDigital marketing agency founder

Full supplied client testimonial.

Callum Rhodes, founder of International Broker Co

Founder competence

Australian structural depth, tested across borders.

Before International Broker, Callum Rhodes structured more than $1 billion in Australian business and property finance. That work required an intimate understanding of corporate structures and Australian taxation, as well as the cash flow, banking and commercial realities behind them.

He then internationalised his own highly regulated financial services business across multiple jurisdictions and worked through those challenges firsthand. International Broker connects those two parts of his experience: understanding how Australian businesses are structured, then making the full company, banking and adviser plan work internationally.

Read Callum's story

Income tax today and capital gains on exit

Same business. Two outcomes.

A $1m annual revenue business with $400k annual profit can produce materially different results depending on where the founder lives, where the company is managed, what the company earns, how profits are extracted and how an eventual sale is treated.

Illustrative example: service business, $1m annual revenue, $400k annual profit before company tax, and a later share sale at 4× annual profit. The figures below isolate selected company-tax and share-sale outcomes; they do not model salary, dividends, source-country exposure, permanent establishment, transaction costs or destination-country personal tax.

Outcome A

Australian company and Australian-resident founder

Annual company profit$400,000
Illustrative annual income tax at 25%$100,000
After company tax$300,000
Illustrative sale value at 4× profit$1,600,000
Illustrative capital gains tax on exit*$376,000

Outcome B

Founder genuinely overseas with a qualifying foreign-income structure

Annual company profit$400,000
Illustrative jurisdictional tax on qualifying foreign profit$0
Profit retained before owner-level tax$400,000
Illustrative sale value at 4× profit$1,600,000
Illustrative local capital gains tax on exit*$0

*Outcome A assumes an Australian-resident individual, nil cost base, shares held more than 12 months, the 50% CGT discount and a 47% top marginal rate including Medicare levy. Outcome B assumes the founder has genuinely ceased Australian tax residency, the foreign company is not Australian tax resident, the income is foreign-sourced under the relevant rules, no Australian permanent establishment or source exposure applies, and the destination imposes no capital gains tax on the share sale. Real outcomes depend on the full circumstances and qualified advice. This is not a calculation of your position.

Model the decisions before you move

What we coordinate

The complete move, not one isolated product.

01

Australian departure

Residency analysis, company management, ownership, departure timing and home-country obligations coordinated with qualified Australian advisers.

02

Overseas structure

Entity, banking, substance and commercial arrangements selected for how the business genuinely earns and operates.

03

Personal residency

A genuine place to live and a lawful residency position that works with the company and the founder's actual lifestyle.

04

Implementation

Formation, banking, visa, registrations, documents, adviser hand-offs and deadlines managed as one sequence.

Evidence over promises

Real client decisions, shown properly.

These detailed examples are a selection from broader client work. They show each founder’s starting position, the decisions, what International Broker coordinated and what was implemented.

$10m+documented aggregate tax saved for clients
20 daysAverage time from commitment to overseas setup fully implemented.
Read the case studies

Built for Borderless Founders

A strong fit when the business and the move have become inseparable.

Usually a fit

Australian founders with an operating, location-flexible business who are seriously considering living overseas and want the structure implemented properly.

Especially valuable

When company value is growing, an exit is possible, family or co-founders are involved, or advice already spans multiple jurisdictions.

Not a fit

Anyone seeking concealment, sham residency, undocumented nominee arrangements or a copied “zero-tax” structure without regard to substance.

How we begin

We assess your current position, intended move and key decision points before recommending any structure or specialist work.

Borderless Founders

For founders building a business and a life across borders.

Practical notes on international business, residency, wealth and the decisions that matter before you move.

Assess the move before committing to a structure.

We will review your objectives, current setup, likely jurisdictions and the specialist work the move may require.

Book a 30-minute Discovery Call