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You may be right, or there again you may not be, at this stage I don't know. I think there is very little downside to obtaining a TIN but there could be if you don't. And if you take that to the next logical step and don't file a return, because you don't have a TIN, there is potentially an even greater downside, for some people. What I would do if I was refused a TIN is to demand one by insisting I have tax to pay on rental income in Thailand, have assessible income from overseas I need to declare, or simply say, I want to reclaim tax paid on savings interest, significantly, FIXED Deposits. If they still said no, I'd go to the Regional office and if that failed I'd go and see Bangkok......but that's just me. And if Bangkok failed me, I'd get somebody to put it in writing or I'd record them and then I'd be very happy.

Hand on heart I don't understand why folks are so averse to obtaining a Thai TIN, it's not like they're being told to contract HIV or develop cancer, it's just a tax ID and having one or not, wont alter your tax liability in the event TRD wants to examine your books. And it does mean that having one will increase your rate of interest on bank savings interest by 15%. But I suppose if not getting one means you think that nobody will know you exist, jeeze, what can be said about that!

All the remote TRD branches are coming up with different stories about this, even one in Bangkok had it's own variant. Some say that if your income is taxed overseas, it doesn't need to be taxed here. Others say, if you don't have a work permit, you don't need to file. A third variant is that you don't need to file, if you don't have Thai income. Just take each one of those excuses and think it through for a moment and you'll see how obviously fictitious it is. If income being taxed overseas was the sole criteria, there would be no need for Dual Tax Agreements plus that would mean that all the DTA exempt income such as Government Pensions and US Social Security payments would need to be taxed in Thailand! Not having a work permit doesn't meet muster either. That would mean that anyone with rental income in Thailand, doesn't need to pay tax....really? As for not having Thai income, well, what can be said! That would mean that everyone could earn as much as they like tax free anywhere in the world and have it remitted to Thailand and there would be no tax to pay, that's pretty much the way it was previously that the new rule is trying to bring and end to. What I don't get is why and how grown up people who have lived in Thailand for some time, don't understand these mixed message signals that happen with banks, immigrations and now TRD, the fact is that communication here is very poor and nothing like what you expect or are used to "back home". But hey, if you've been to a TRD branch and asked the questions and you chose to believe what you have been told, go for it.

The UK NI number is your TIN, unless you have a specific HMRC Taxpayer Reference Number, either will do but the NI Number is more widely understood.

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Perhaps you could offer K'Bank your services as a business efficiency consultant. That way, they'd win, because their service would have been improved. We would win also because you'd get your arze deported for working without a work permit and we wouldn't have to listen to your whinging any more.

The bank will have its criteria for who should receive the forms, of course they will not send it to Somchai and Nok who never had any interests outside Thailand and earns the average wage. Perhaps they don't close accounts in Redwoodland but in the UK it's a regular occurence, especially if they know you don't live there and don't have financial interest or an address there.

Assume!!! Can I just say that if any of my banks sends me a form to complete that they think is important enough to send in the first place, and I don't return it, they usually threaten suspension of my account. UOB Thai does that every two years with certification of my investment account; Hargreaves Lansdowne does that yearly if I don't send them copies of my ID to prove who I am, EVERY YEAR (crazy sh *t); HSBC did that with KYC forms....and so on.

I doubt you will find information specific to credit and debit cards, it's more likely to be mentioned in passing since the method of funds remittance into Thailand can take many forms and not each one is mentioned specifically. It would be extremely naive to believe that only remittances that are transferred bank to bank via a TT are considered to be potentially tax assessable and that all others methods escape assessment.

We have tessaban restrictions that are very different to the Provincial rules, they are much tighter.

Last year it started on 15 January, there has been no announcement yet this year, presumably the same.

Maybe this will help some people: You must give Form W-8BEN to the withholding agent or payer if you are a nonresident alien who is the beneficial owner of an amount subject to withholding, or if you are an account holder of an FFI documenting yourself as a nonresident alien. Instructions for Form W-8BEN (10/2021) - IRS IRS (.gov) https://www.irs.gov › instructions › iw8ben and, Use Form W-9 to provide your correct Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN) to the person who is required to file an information return with the IRS to report, for example: Income paid to you. Real estate transactions. Mortgage interest you paid. Acquisition or abandonment of secured property. Cancellation of debt. Contributions you made to an IRA. https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-w-9

"Though the Thai government has pointed out that “not just anyone” can obtain a Thailand DTV Visa as a digital nomad, they did not, as of this writing, specify the minimum income, employer, or social media follower requirements. Still, it is unlikely that you will qualify for the DTV Visa Thailand if the Thai authorities do not consider your foreign employer to be “legitimate.” https://www.thaiembassy.com/thailand-visa/dtv-visa-thailand

Probably what you witness is business owners who are known to staff.

The point here is the trend, Thai banking has moved on from the old wild west days and whilst not everyone is up to snuff on all things, slowly but surely these loop holes and errant banking practices are being closed and erased.

My Uncle Jim met a bloke in the pub whose third cousin said he did the same thing.

And I have done similar, withdrawing it in cash from one bank and walking across the mall to a different bank to deposit it. But the last time I did that was around 2015, time has now moved on. Plus both banks in that chain knew exactly who I was, where I lived etc etc etc. plus I have no idea what checks or approvals went on behind the scenes.

It took no more than ten seconds to confirm: Yes, banks need to know the source of deposits to comply with regulations and prevent financial crimes: Anti-money laundering (AML) compliance: Banks must verify the source of funds to comply with AML regulations and prevent money laundering. Client due diligence (CDD): Banks must understand the source of funds as part of CDD. Risk mitigation: Banks must verify the source of funds to mitigate the risk that funds come from criminal activity. Banks may ask customers questions about the source of funds, especially if the request seems unusual for that customer. For example, banks may ask about the source of funds for wire or cash exchanges. Banks also report cash deposits over $10,000 to the government to help prevent crime and fraud.

Bum bites will be served from 1 January onwards, courtesy TRD and others.

In the same way that the UK will close bank accounts of those people who are not resident there, expect that Thailand might do the same thing here, unless you have a long stay visa. This in part is why so many people have found it so difficult to open a new bank account in recent times.

Non resident green card holders who receive US Social Security payments.

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Tax payer reference number or National Insurance Number

RW still doesn't know if Thailand is going to attack somebody or whether everybody is supposed to go out and buy small nails.