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Mike - might this be the address to which paper returns should be sent? The Revenue Department 90 Soi Phaholyothin 7 Phaholyothin Road Phayathai Bangkok 10400

No mention of any address in https://efiling.rd.go.th/rd-cms/ or https://www.expatica.com/th/civil/administration/tax-id-thailand-2172861/#apply as far as I can tell!

But will all staff in all revenue offices be necessarily happy to enter your data into the system? Or, as in the case of Immigration, could it depend on (1) your particular office, (2) the individual within that office you deal with, or (3) even the side of the bed they got out of that morning? Is it even possible for us to set up an online facility ourselves once we've (presumably) got a TIN? Could our office even do this for us at the same time as giving us the TIN? On a general point, I think that it would be extremely helpful if para 77 of the Guide could be expanded as necessary so as to set out in the appropriate level of detail the specific procedures needing to be followed to enable tax returns to be filed electronically or on paper. This will, I suspect, be a major logistical consideration for those of us who, like myself, will be coming cold to the intricacies of the Thai taxation system for the very first time.

What address should paper returns be sent to, and would this be worth stating in the Guide, please?

Which, of course, will inevitably result in significant banking charges and fees being racked up on your part over the years as you play ping-pong with your 400k between your European and Thai bank accounts. While you might well be more than happy to make generous donations to the Bankers' Benevolent Fund in this way, I strongly suspect that precious few of the rest of us on here would likewise be so willing in similar circumstances!

Dee Money may be your friend if you're really hell-bent on doing this: https://www.deemoney.com/

When I cancelled my Bangkok Bank debit card several years ago, I visited my local branch in person and was required to sign a couple of forms so as to ensure that my account was not debited with subsequent card fees.

Also worthy of mention IMHO are the increasingly complex procedures which HM Government back in Blighty has seen fit to inflict on us Brit expats over the past 10 years or so in the areas of renewing our passports locally, proving that we are still in the land of the living for our State Pension and getting UK docs legalised for use in LOS.

The point at which your pension will be frozen could depend on the date when you reached/will reach State Pension age: https://www.gov.uk/deferring-state-pension/if-you-move-abroad In the unlikely event of this being before 6 April 2016 you would be best advised to clarify the position with DWP. You can contact them via their online enquiry form: https://secure.dwp.gov.uk/ipc/personal-details

.. and reigned over supremely by that heinous absolute monarch known as Queen Ursula of Europe from opulent palaces in Brussels and Strasbourg.

So, sadly, no chance of being stripped of his British citizenship any time soon, then? ☹️

So still expecting to have his cake and eat it. No change there, then.

While at the same time embracing the parasite clutches of that mob over the pond in Brussels. Not exactly "independence", is it?

Can't open the link, unfortunately. But at the end of the day it will all depend, I suppose, on whether Age UK will have at their disposal the clout needed in order to overcome that immovable force known as DWP's Sir Humphrey. Somehow I doubt it.

May have something to do with the introduction of the new State Pension for men born after 6 April 1951 and women after 6 April 1953, perhaps? https://www.gov.uk/new-state-pension In any event it definitely looks like a matter of further insult being added to injury since April 2015 when it comes to the frozen pension issue in our case!