scotsman

just the same as before I have no tax to pay as I have done my calculations on all my income into Thailand with all the discounts and tax agreements so will wait and see. I will file a tax return and wait for the very little chance of me being picked out for a audit and prove with my documents i have no tax to pay. it will not be worth there time and money to collect no tax or very little tax from me. when they see this policy costing them more money than they will get they will drop it but for now I will. wait and see.

I have reduced my spending and transfers to the point of not being liable to pay any tax if they want me to prove it with a tax return the forms have to be in English and it has everything you need to fill it out along with your double tax agreement for your country. also you can gift your wife some of the money for her expenditure. also you can claim tax relief on any thai health insurance. I will only file if they have this in place. there is thousands of us living here and milions of thai people who also don't file any tax returns what is the chance of you being chosen for a audit not very likely. when it comes to all the forms to backup your tax return including my P60 and the UK double taxation treaty and transfer bank statement from the bank or transverwise will they be able to understand most of it? When this government see that there economy is losing money and it cost more to collect the very small or no tax from most of us they will change this policy not include us.

After using a calculator I don't have any tax to pay so I will wait and see what they do when we don't file a tax return. If you don't have any tax to pay then a fine for not filing a return is not going to happen if they do issue a fine then i will pay it. as it will not be a big fine. they will have to fine Thai people as well. but I don't want to file a long winded tax form in english to show them I don't have any tax to pay i have paid my tax in the UK. they will not refuse a visa extension as they know you can just get a visa agent to get you one now they will not stop the visa agents or the immigration police will have no money to pay there car payments. Now if you did file a tax return there is thousands of us and its a voluntary system the odds of them picking me for a audit is very small so for me I will wait and see. When this government finds out that the economy is losing money from us as we stop sending for so much money transfers and spend less money they will stop this policy as we don't have that much tax to pay to make it worth collecting. so many complicated tax rules for double tax treaties for them to waist time in there tax office to get so little tax out of it. I have been here over 20 years i know how they can do something so stupid then change there mind when it backfires this will be the same