Mike Lister

Perhaps this varies by nationality because the guidance below from the Royal Thai Consulate in Vancouver says this about the insurance, "A copy of the health insurance policy may only be accepted, provided that the applicant purchases the health insurance from participating Thai insurance companies". https://www.thaiconsulatevancouver.ca/th/retirement-visa/

https://sriphat.med.cmu.ac.th/en/service/detail/17

Sorry, my fault, I took it for granted that everyone understood it was the same thread that has been reposted at least a hundred times and is linked once again below. It's real name is, Personal Income Tax Guide for Foreigners.

Aspects of the guide can always be discussed and debated in this thread, a few members said they wanted this thread left open to do just that so go ahead and debate it here. What we've seen is that there is a substantial and clear need for members to have easy access to facts and related information, without having to trawl through 250 pages of frequently emotive discussion posts and unrelated half page rants, in order to try and find answers. My role currently is to extract the few relevant facts that do emerge from threads such as these and express them simply and concisely for the benefit of members, in the simple tax guide. There are several agenda's in play in these threads: one is the need to debate and post; another is to try to find answers and information about tax; mine is to develop a tax guide that is as complete and as simple to understand as possible; another agenda is to derail my agenda. It is clear from the letter writing campaigns, the abusive PM's and the abusive posts of the past four months that a couple of posters are as intent as ever in derailing the tax guide....I called them irritants and hindrances, I think that was very mild. It is indeed unfortunate that the Simple Tax Guide thread had to be closed but there was no alternative, if we were to avoid turning it into a clone of this thread. Members desperately need a safe place they can go to obtain information and get their questions answered, the simple guide thread was that for a while and saw lots of people field their issues and get them answered. Now they have lost out, simply because of the agenda of a couple of persistent selfish posters who want to constantly run interference.

The latest version of the Simple Tax Guide is in the first post of the thread of the same name that is now closed. As the guide was updated, the version in the op was updated and the version and revision numbers updated also. There was NEVER multiple copies of different versions in existence.

I didn't trash bquick in my initial post. My initial post TA was in response to the prior poster who had a bad experience there, the fact that you didn't understand that or read the sequence properly is not my issue. We get your message, loud and clear, you like bquick and anyone who has anything other than good things to say about them is a bad person with ulterior motives and is not qualified to comment. We all understand that's the way you think. Now, you'll have to go find somebody else to bicker with 'cos I'm not playing.

This is not an invitation to debate, just clarification of an earlier issue intended to disrupt the narrative (above). I just began reworking the Simple Tax Guide and low and behold, on the first page, is the following: OVERVIEW OF THE TAX LAW Thai tax laws require a person to pay income tax to the Thai Revenue Department under the following conditions: "Individuals, who are categorized as: Thai citizens; A Thai resident who filed taxes in the previous tax year; or Foreigners who reside in Thailand for one or more periods with at least 180 days in one tax calendar year. And who receive income inside or outside Thailand via: Income from employment (wages, salaries, remuneration, etc.) assessable under Section 40 of the Revenue Code; Income from business operations is assessable under Section 40. Passive or property income (interest, dividends, rental income, goodwill, etc.) based on Article 41 paragraph 2 of the Revenue Code". https://www.thailandlawonline.com/table/revenue-code/#:~:text=Under section 41 of the,from sources within the country%2C https://www.thailandlawonline.com/table/revenue-code/#:~:text=Under section 41 of the,from sources within the country%2C

We've had the hypothetical/what if debate on this several times and it has never concluded, in the case of Thailand. BUT, it has concluded in the case of the UK where foreign credit card usage by non-doms is regarded as taxable imported income and the HMRC ruling on this was posted. It's important to separate the theory on this from what is likely to happen. Theoretically and technically, yes, those mileage points probably could be viewed as income. In practise they never will.

I understood the tax on electronics to be very high, if that's not the case regarding computer parts, great for you.

No wait, I didn't say they only sell tyres and batteries, what I meant was that they are only good for those things. I persuaded Mrs Mike to get her brakes redone there and the cost was cheaper. The next time they needed doing she took the car to the dealer where they found a piece was missing, a metal clip like piece that reduces brake noise. I'd never heard or seen of that piece before and I know a fair whack about car brakes, apparently neither did the bquick kid because he left it off.....900 baht each to replace at the dealer. After that, it's dealers all the way, the cost may be higher but they know what all the bits are for and not to leave any off. The other thing that bugged me about them was the constant upsell, mister you need new air cleaner, mister your tyres past expire date, every single time....it became tiresome...haha, geddit, bquick, tiresome....never mind.

I was trying to decide the worst and best case scenario's and whether scrapping the whole thing would be one or the other. I couldn't decide, scrapping the new rule could be both.

Ah, a nice easy one I see! 🙂 Technically speaking I would guess it's a Custom and Import taxes which may be equal to 50% of the product cost. It's hard to ever imagine RD being interested in such a thing.

Do you mind if I pass.

Ooooo, excuse me for living. 🙂 😮 so, only people who know the owner of bquick are qualified to comment on bquick! Gottit

Er, relevance?

You're right, tyres only.

Tires and batteries yes, much more than that, no.

FWIW I'm going to take some time with the Simple Tax Guide offline, and without the irritation that one or two posters bring with them, and try to update it alone. I will also sort out the links problems. Afterwards, I'll start a new thread and post the updated version but probably in a locked thread. If anyone needs help with anything I can be PM'd and will happily try and help.

It's not about AN, that is a decision individuals must make and shouldn't be advised.

let's move forward, life's too short.

It's not unusual to have in transit days when it comes to counting days for tax. An 11pm departure on long haul can leave you without residency anywhere that day, ditto crossing the date line can also be interesting

Well actually no. Thailand counts any part of any day, according to stamps in a passport. The UK on the other hand counts where you are at midnight. It is easily possible to be tax resident on two countries, on the same day.

Correct

That's not really an issue. Returns here must be filled by 31 Mar, the UK year ends 5 days later, you will know all you need to know by late March.

Yes