As the government set about selling its controversial tax changes, Jim Chalmers routinely fell back on a claim that only one in 10 young Aussies invest in shares. RELATEDThere's about $150 billion invested on the local ASX stock exchange in foreign based ETFs which track overseas markets, Brycki noted. It actually gets captured under foreign income," he explained. "At least from that Treasury email, foreign income isn't in the list of categories, so it isn't being captured," he said. Treasury was contacted by Yahoo Finance on Tuesday afternoon seeking clarification about the seeming omission.