Geir Rasch

When I first payed tax to Thailand I got a tax ID. I also have this pink ID-card. The tax-ID number is different from my pink ID-number. The tax office told me then it should be the same, so I will change the tax ID number to be the same as on the pink card. From this it should be: If you have a pink ID card, then you also have a tax ID, since those numbers should be the same.

In thai form: ก 1. เงินเดือน ค่าจ้าง บำนาญ ฯลฯ Try translate and you find those 4 words to be: Salary - wages - pensions - etc No possibility for translation error. Why deny the obvious? If you do not want to pay tax, it is OK. But do you want to pay tax to Thailand, then pensions transferred to Thailand same year as it is obtained is taxable in Thailand, period.

As I wrote in my first post it is more or less up to you if you will pay tax to Thailand or not. What you gain depend of the tax law in your home country. In Norway the average tax on pensions is 20%+. Average tax of Norwegian pension in Thailand is less than 10%, so there is quit a lot of money to save. Since filing the forms and pay tax is as easy as paying tax in your home country, it is waist of money to pay so called lawyer to do it for you! Well, I admit there are some that have problem with filling forms and those I know I help and do it for free - what are friends for? Before 2010 Norwegians that emigrated and did not have a home i Norway did not pay tax at all to Norway. In 2010 a new law said that government pensions and pensions from pension funds would be taxed 15% if you where emigrated for tax purposes. This people would not pay tax to Thailand before after 2010. People who emigrate after 2010 should never apply for tax emigration. Tax to both Norway and Thailand gives you a Norwegian tax below 15% if you are not tax emigrated. I am reasonable up to date about taxation Norway/Thailand. For other countries involved I have no knowledge. So may be the situation for some will be that paying tax to Thailand is not a smart choice, but for Norwegians it indeed is! And it is simple!

No, pensions is in same group as salaries and wages. Pensions is in fact withhold salaries.

Post A 1 in document 91: Salaries, wages, pensions etc, https://www.rd.go.th/english/62734.html

According to Thai tax law pension brought in to Thailand are subject to tax in Thailand if it is brought in the same year it is earned. Thailand has tax-agreement with several countries. I’m Norwegian and the agreement between Thailand and Norway is that pension being taxed in Thailand will be withdrawn from pension to be taxed in Norway. Since tax level in Thailand is lower than in Norway, norwegian paying tax to Thailand save a lot of money by doing that. Not all pay tax and I asked the regional revenue office why they don’t coordinate with immigration to make all expat pay tax. The answer was that since revenue department accept thai pensionare not paying tax of their pension, they cannot force expat to do that. So in practice it is up to you. If the tax agreement between Thailand and your home country is the same as the one with Norway, you should pay tax to Thailand if the tax level in your home country is higher than what it is in Thailand.