tomgreen

Many thanks, its appreciated , I thought that there should be a pdf link some where for the '' English '' forms, but could not find them. Hopefully your post may also help others in some way. 🙏

Thanks, I'm planning to go and get the tax all ready taken statement from my Thai bank savings account ( as requested by my local tax office ) and then once Ive got that paper work , I will be going back to my local tax office ( there they said that they would fill every thing out on line for me ) and ask them to then process every thing . Its interesting that you were given a reference number to use next year . Just out of interest ( being nosey ) was the outcome of you filing your tax form in , what you had expected.

With what I know now and looking back Ive come to realize that Ive made some big mistakes along the way, 1. I should have not informed the UK pension department that I was moving to live in Thailand . Big mistake ( at the time I had fallen in love with a wonderful Thai woman and Thailand compared to my home country , was a paradise on earth where I wanted to live in for ever ) . 2. Wanting to be with the love of my life and live in Thailand as quick as possible, I sold my house and banked the cash . Big mistake ( I should have rented my house out which would have increased in value , plus the rent money that I would have received would have been a big bonus. ) 3. Building a house , so that my Thai wife could be near her parents. Big mistake ( I spent a lot of money building a house near where my wife's parents lived out in the country side . 6 months after building the house so my wife could live near her parents , her parents decided to sell their house and move to another far off part of Thailand. ) 4. I decided to take out a private health care insurance policy that would cover me for any inpatient medical treatment . Big mistake ( I should have just saved the monthly private health insurance money in a saving account )

And to add to detest ..... Frozen Pensions .

Ive always been a worrier and add to that curse my genetic knee jerk reaction to always get things done quickly. A few weeks ago I received in the post at my home, a '' are you still alive '' form , that the UK pension department sent me . They want to confirm that I'm still alive and should they keep paying my pension money , yet another thing to worry about , and here's me thinking that retiring to Thailand would offer a paradise stress free life style ( don't get me started about private health care options 🙄 )

May be there all ready exists some one / business in the Philippines that can sort out the necessary paperwork , for retired British citizens , to convince the DWP that they are residing in the Philippines . I wonder if any one here knows of such a service .

The whole subject of submitting a Thai tax form in , is in many ways confusing , and a bit like Russian roulette , where the completed Thai tax form is the bullet.

Hi, thats interesting , so your tax exempt but still need to fill out a Thailand tax form .

The thought of one day standing in front of an immigration officer and as I hand over my completed retirement visa yearly extension paperwork , the immigration officer looks at me and asks, where is you Thailand tax assessment paperwork 😱

Hi , after reading all of the comments and advice posted here to my original question , it seems that due to my small UK state pension ( which is my only income being transferred to my Bangkok Bank account from the UK ) even if I do fill out the tax form I would not be taxed. So in my mind I'm thinking ....is it better to be safe than sorry.

Hi and thanks, what I wanted to do was to make sure that I filled the forms out correctly as they are all worded in Thai , and my Thai wife did not understand many of the questions on the forms. So I decided to seek help and ask at my local tax office , who were very helpful . Ive attached the tax forms in question.

Hi, trust me to scare some people, hopefully some information posted will be in some way helpful.

Hi and thanks, as you no doubt can tell , this is all new to me and I'm still learning , but its still a bit confusing.

Hi and thanks, I'm a bit dumb , can you please tell me a bit more about TEDA increases ( I did google , but not very helpful )

As British citizens we must remember that our wonderful government needs the money generated by not paying full pensions to people who have paid into the system all their working life and who decided to retire in another country , so the government can help with hotel accommodation costs for the increasing flood of illegal immigrants .🛶 .