It is important that you keep your details up-to-date in Online services for foreign investors.
We use your:
- contact details to contact you or your authorised representative
- foreign person status to determine your foreign investment obligations.
Changes to your foreign person status, nationality or source country are required to be updated within 30 days of the changes.
Contact details
Log in to Online services for foreign investors.
On the home page, select Profile then Manage details (or the Manage details quick link). This will allow you to view and update:
- an email address
- phone numbers
- addresses
- passport and visa details (for individuals).
Foreign person details
Log in to Online services for foreign investors.
On the home page, select Profile then Foreign person details. This will allow you to view, update or add:
- a foreign person status
- dates a person was an active foreign person
- a nationality (for individuals)
- a source country percentage of ownership (for entities only).
To update your foreign person details, select Edit. If your status is showing No status (unless you are a property developer):
- select Add at Active foreign person dates
- select the date you became a foreign person
- select Add at Nationality
- type or select the Country
- for an entity select the Effective date or Source country.
If you are no longer a foreign person, select Edit next to the foreign person dates when your status changed and:
- select Set an end date
- enter the date you stopped being a foreign person
- select the reason
- select the declaration and Submit – your status will update within 24 hours.
Do not edit any previous records where you were a foreign person for the whole period.
Note: Only use Delete if a record was added in error; that is, if it should never have been added.
Authorised contacts
Authorised contacts are those you authorise us to discuss all aspects of your foreign investment obligations administered by the ATO. If you want them to log in to Online services for foreign investors on your behalf, you will need to authorise them as a representative.
Log in to Online services for foreign investors.
On the home page, to display all authorised contacts select Profile then Authorised contacts. Then:
- to update contact details, for the people listed as Contacts select Update
- to add a new contact select Add; you will need their name and email address
- to remove an authorised contact, select Delete next to the relevant contact.