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True, but with the Chrome browser (which I use) you can select the "Translate to English" option upon clicking on the home page, and you should then be presented with reasonable English translations without any further prompting from then on. My tax office registered me for this system when I visited them yesterday with a paper return based on the 2024 Thai forms (after getting fed up with waiting for the English versions to materialise). During a test log-in I was able to drill down, all in English, as far as the PND90/91 section, but could not get any further as I had already submitted my return for the 2024 tax year! So the proof of the pudding will likely only come in my case when I file my 2025 return this time next year.

"In a change from Tory plans, the government has said the new powers will not be used to target payments of the state pension." That will no doubt come as a huge relief to some on here!

Hmm, I suggest that you keep a weather eye on the GBP:THB exchange rate. A single Wise transfer of £18,000 will only yield 747,850.64 THB at this precise moment in time, for instance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usufruct

Basically down to Korat and their pals in Nakorn Ratchasima (as in the OP's case) being rogue offices, pure and simple, when it comes to enforcing TM30 requirements, I think. I have (or, more to the point, my wife has) never been asked for a fresh TM30 upon my return from each foreign trip by my office (Rayong).

"Wise is now a direct member in the Australian payment systems" Begs the question as to how they managed to cope as an indirect member of said payment systems, I think!

May be possible by 31 March 2568 (AD, not BE, that is!).

https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/download/nation/australia_e.pdf

She's clearly not up to speed on what one of her big bosses in Bangkok has been saying recently, then, is she? https://aseannow.com/topic/1347864-revenue-department-boss-calls-on-tax-residents-in-thailand-to-file-2024-returns-by-march-31 There are state pensions and state pensions. Depends on what the relevant DTA with Thailand has to say in particular circumstances.

I have better things to do with my time other than having to twiddle my thumbs and unable to do SFA else for a good hour or so while being "serenaded" with irritating muzak to boot until a real live IPC human being can be bothered to answer my call, thank you very much!

To Mr/Ms Confused: I can only surmise that you find the concept of straight answers to direct questions a tad too difficult to grasp!😲

Based on my experience of obtaining a TIN a few months ago, you need to apply at your local Area Revenue Office. The following link lists those in and around Chiang Mai: https://www.rd.go.th/13839.html Best to take a Thai speaker with you as TRD staff members' comprehension of the English language tends to be non-existent, even in those areas with large expat populations. Take your passport with you since the IMM stamps contained in it will form the basis on which they determine whether you're a tax resident of Thailand (based on staying in the country for more than 180 days per annum). Your Thai speaker may well have to complete the following form in the Thai language on your behalf: https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/tax_pdf/request/lp10.1_110355.pdf

Depends on whether or not it is sourced from income derived in your home country, which is covered by its Double Taxation Agreement with Thailand (i.e. solely taxable by your home country), I would have thought.

In common with @Andycoops, I'm not holding my breath for any meaningful progress on this front any time soon. That said, it should not, I would have thought, be too much beyond DWP's capabilities (in theory at least) to devise an online facility through the Government Gateway for periodically verifying that we remain in the land of the living for State Pension purposes. Quite a few of us are, I believe, already subscribed to the Government Gateway for checking personal State Pension entitlements/payments.

And they're far from alone in His Majesty's Government in that regard! Even the snail mail service is deemed far too hi-tec by their pals in HMPO for submitting our passport renewal applications to VFS in Bangkok or Chiang Mai, or for VFS to send on our replacement passports to us in due course - meaning that we're forced to make a couple of physical trips in person for these purposes (which are all the more awkward the further away from Bangkok or Chiang Mai we live), unless, of course, we're prepared to fork out an extra 5,000 THB for the "pleasure" of having an agent undertake these trips on our behalf. That said, in fairness to DWP in this particular instance, it is, in fact, possible to initiate contact with them online via their enquiry form, as I have done on a number of occasions: https://secure.dwp.gov.uk/contact-the-international-pension-centre/contact-form

Alternatively you can now download them via the following link: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/67160776e94bb9726918ee90/Life_Certificate.pdf

"The premium for age over 65 years old is use for guidance only. The actual premium is subject to PCHI's underwriting results will be considerably higher."

Certainly possible at Krungsri in my experience!

@Tbone999 - do you apply for your annual retirement extensions on the basis of an original non-OA visa which expired prior to October 2019? If you do, are Phuket still relaxing the requirement for approved health insurance in these circumstances?

Plus why does he feel it necessary to bring across the equivalent of 400k at all if he is in receipt of pension, etc income derived in Spain, given that the Spanish Embassy presumably still offer their nationals an income confirmation service - although this does not, admittedly, appear to be crystal clear from a brief look at their website: https://www.exteriores.gob.es/Embajadas/bangkok/en/Paginas/index.aspx

Just beware, though, that, when taking more than 10,000 EUR cash out of Spain, you'll need to sign a customs declaration at the Spanish end. https://sede.agenciatributaria.gob.es/Sede/en_gb/viajeros-trabajadores-desplazados-fronterizos/viajeros/medios-pago.html?faqId=4cc13fc7b70d9710VgnVCM100000dc381e0aRCRD

And a Krungsri Pattaya thing?? But apparently not Krungsri's variation on Kasikorn's tax residency info provision theme, though!

From which country and in which currency?

Indeed they have not - although I do differ from you on the issue of according respect to the poster to whom you were replying!

You mean the forms which we are supposed to use for 2024 TY returns? So where have we all been able to obtain them, then? I'm sure that @jwest10 for one would welcome you providing us with a suitable link as to where those Dr Who-esque geniuses in the TRD posted their 2024 forms around this time last year if not long before. (And I do mean their 2024 forms, not their 2023, 2022, 2021, etc ones). Do try and keep up with all the posts on this thread and elsewhere on this specific point, if that's no too much trouble for you.