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On the subject of DTA's, the following disturbing comment you've recently made in the original thread now running to 255 pages would IMHO be worth repeating here: "Word reaches me from a friend who attended a Mazars briefing at a Embassy in Bangkok this week that Thailand is currently renegotiating several DTA's. allegedly."

This does, however, strike me as an issue of potential interest to those in receipt of UK company pensions in particular, the more so if these pensions are significant in financial terms and/or they are also in receipt of the UK State Pension*. As I understand the present position, HMRC would only allow taxation relief equal to the amount of tax paid (at lower rates in most cases) to the RD here. I strongly suspect that this could, in practice, mean UK company pensioners having to file tax returns with HMRC for the first time ever in most cases, as well as with the RD here. Which would mean them having to enlist the services of a commercial software supplier if filing to HMRC online since they are UK tax non-residents. What with the differing tax years (6/4/Y1 to 5/4/Y2 in the case of HMRC and 1/1/Y1 to 31/12/Y1 in the case of the RD), this could all turn out to be a bureaucratic nightmare in their case! * @billd766 - looks like you might come under this heading.

Are the BCCT planning to organise similar briefings in other parts of the country since Hua Hin is, I'm sure, not a particularly convenient place to get to for many? Nevertheless many thanks are, I think, due to the BCCT for seemingly stepping forward, once again, in support of expats on a topical issue of particular concern to us, just as they did a couple of years ago in the case of COVID vaccinations.

It does, however, appear to me unlikely that we Brits in receipt of the UK State Pension will get very far in persuading HMRC to exempt us from being taxed on that particular pension - especially given that, as you have already explained elsewhere, various allowances will mean that we shall, in practice, almost certainly not have to pay any tax on declared assessable income relating to it here in Thailand! The State Pension will likely be my sole source of assessable income for RD taxation purposes since I am in receipt of a Civil Service occupational pension which is covered by the UK/Thailand DTA, and income on the sale of my UK property in late 2021, which I am still remitting to Thailand in dribs and drabs, was all earned before 1/1/24.

That presumably means that all of the income in question was actually earned after this date, as per 1 of your tables above.

So how else can health insurance be provided if not through a policy then, eh, Mr Clever Clogs??

My understanding is that it will be the relevant BOT Transfer rate on the date when your pension payment hits your Thai bank account - either as a result of a direct transfer initiated by your pension provider; or, if the payment is made to a home country bank account, when it is credited to your Thai bank account as a result of (e.g.) a subsequent SWIFT or Wise transfer.

And those of us who have received COVID jabs in Thailand will probably have had yet another 13-digit ID number stated in our certificates!

Which immigration office is it that requires this, please?

Not according to the Thai-bashing brigade on here, though!

Are you a well-remunerated PR consultant for the TGIA by any chance?

You might have been able to avoid this overstay with a medical extension of stay. Water under the bridge now, of course, and, as already said, probably won't be held against you in your present quest to revisit LOS. But worth bearing in mind IMHO should you be faced with a similar situation in future.

You'll also need the latest statement from your UK government occupational pension provider (are they MyCSP by any chance?).

Or maybe a number of transactions which took place over this 6-month period have been consolidated into a single line with the CMB coding? To prevent this from happening, Bangkok Bank passbooks should be updated at least once every 3 months. But, yes, Bangkok Bank PUM's don't automatically flip passbook pages.

Was it 1 of these 3 images that you had in mind? Credit advice note as required by Hua Hin.pdf Foreign transaction confirmation.pdf Monthly Deposits as required by Jomtien - obtainable only from branch where account opened.pdf

Reverberating bass thuds emanating from multi-megawatt sound systems mounted on pick-ups or at temples are my particular pet hate. Oh, and that along with dogs which insist on howling and/or barking loudly at 3.00AM.

Would be most unwise for your pal to risk on it being third time lucky in his case IMHO. It's the airline, rather than IMM, that he needs to worry about. Would just take a jobsworth airline check-in assistant in a particularly foul mood next time round to flatly deny him permission to board his oneway flight to BKK without an onward flight booking within the following 30 days.

In that case you'll definitely need monthly credit advice notes, as correctly advised by @Georgealbert. Highly unlikely that Citibank in the UK route your pension payments directly to Bangkok Bank, I think, but rather through an intermediary third bank at the Thai end. You'll need to establish with Citibank who this third bank is since it will be they, rather than Bangkok Bank, who will be responsible for issuing the necessary credit advice notes.

Can't see them getting very far in any event if they're still trying with their username and password for the Mk1 system!

Whenever I suffer withdrawal symptoms, I just head on a flight back to the UK and assuage them through a trip to a Tesco store there.

You should check what codings for these pension payments appear in your savings account passbook. If FTT (standing for Foreign Telegraphic Transfer) you probably won't need a credit advice statement since this particular coding confirms the foreign origin of your pension payments, which is what IMM are primarily concerned with here.

And yet, once you've reported the sale to HMRC and made the necessary CGT payment online within 60 days, you're still required to include in a subsequent tax return a completed SA108 form + detailed computation sheet which more or less repeats what you've already told HMRC online! What's the bloody point of that?

Based on my own experiences of dealng with CGT-related issues following the sale of my UK property a couple of years ago, I strongly suspect that what @KannikaP may well be struggling with in particular is that there are not ONE, nor even TWO, but THREE sources of info on the gov.uk website relating to CGT! https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax-uk-property/start/report-pay-capital-gains-tax-uk-property?_ga=2.31492087.898625034.1633235870-1552680673.1629876543 https://www.gov.uk/tax-sell-property https://www.gov.uk/guidance/capital-gains-tax-for-non-residents-uk-residential-property#CGT-report-pay Is it really beyond the capability of those "geniuses" in HMRC to boil these 3 sections down to 1?

By my reckoning about two-thirds of this particular form is completely irrelevant to standard renewals. On the basis that these constitute the overwhelming majority of applications for new and replacement passports processed by HMPO, is it really so unreasonable to expect those particular "geniuses" to be at least capable of devising a considerably shorter version of this form covering only the one-third which is relevant to standard renewals?

What I personally have got against the pink ID card in particular is that it doesn't include the single most crucial piece of personal information in our cases, namely the date when our current permission to stay in Thailand expires. Were it to do so I would be round to my amphur in a flash to check out the feasibility of applying for one (with fingers firmly crossed)!