Mike Lister

I wrote to uob about this years ago, as I recall they said they would need the probate court ruling. I can't see why other banks will be different although I accept that local practice in more rural areas, may differ significantly, most things do.

After I get back home in two days time, if you want, you and I can get together on a on to to one and go through everything that concerns you. I'm pretty certain you will quickly come to realize that this not a big deal and that you are concerned for no good reason....in the meantime, relax. I'll send you a PM with my email address and number

Strange!!! What do you suggest we do Steven, recommend to member's that they break the law? How about tax, should we advocate tax evasion also?

She needs a will also, otherwise her assets are disbursed according to the hierarchy in the Thai inheritance laws which includes all her relative s

That wouldn't change anything, your will still has to go through probate court, there is no magic short cut that's legal

I have to come back to this post and make something clear: I have no problem if any foriegners hasn't filed returns in the past, what others do in this respect is their own business and I'm certainly not going to be critical of them if they haven't filed. But what does give me great difficulty is when posters try to claim, as some have done and still do, that there's nothing in the tax code to say they are obliged to file, because para X Y or Z says this or that and doesn't include them. That is total nonsense and trying to use that as an excuse for why they haven't filed or won't file, is nothing more than a lame excuse and a distraction.

Informing foriegners in Thailand is not the topic, tax is. And please, give the sad confused emojis a rest, of something isn't clear, please ask.

I think so too, very much so they knew. But now some folks are saying that because they didn't get notified personally, and some aspects of the rules are still unclear, the whole thing is impossible and unacceptable! Hmmm!

How can I possibly know that.

Why ask me that question, my role here is to inform readers of the things we know about the tax rules and to try and help people by answering their questions about tax. My role is not to devise a system to notify 86 year olds who live in rural villages, neither is it my role to comment on the way government informs foriegners about rule changes that affect them.

Read the document we produced in the other thread please.

I'm not trying to claim the moral high ground, just because I have filed tax returns for a few years, that would be crass. I'm merely pointing out that to date, almost nothing has changed yet many posters view news of the one small change as being something far greater than it is. The problem is not the rule change, the problem is the awakening to the reality that tax preparation and filing in Thailand has always been a requirement, but they never realized. Now that people are begining to understand that, they are pushing back against the words that have existed in the tax code for years. There is nothing much that's new here in all of this.

The same way the rest of us do or have.

Please read the simple guide to personal income tax thread, your answers are mostly all there on the op.

Yes, and he's known that would be the case since the announcement was made in November 2023 so he needs to plan for it and deal with it.

Well, I've lived here for over 20 years and I've known I had to file for many years, and have. This has nothing to do with immi telling us, the Revenue is a totally different part of government. Just thinking back to all the posts that have been made here over the years, warning people not to remit funds in the same year they were earned, there have been loads warning people about the tax implications.

There's a difference between not knowing you're supposed to file and not knowing how to file.

The rules haven't changed for the 2024 tax filing, they are the same they've been for years. All that changes for next year is one small simple rule change which is extremely easy to understand. If you can't file this year it's because you have never filed before. Resident expats with overseas income have been filing taxes here for years.

No, non of those things

You talk as though you've.never filed a tax return. You have to declare what those funds are, you can say what you want. But if they don't believe you or decide to do a routine audit, you have to be able to prove what you said is true.

No, delay tactics, produce a long list of documents and then wait for a call for an appointment that never comes. Same for others around me.

I don't know, what can I say, it's possible it may speed up probate but I don't know, sorry if you think that's rude but I bet there are things you don't know too.

I know, the document knows, you don't. No more answers until you read it,

Maybe, possibly, dunno.

The law states that all wills must go through probate and that accounts bearing the name of the deceased,must be frozen. What else can I say.