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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.

Wonder whether this might have something to do with the 8am time for initiating the transfer in question. Is this earlier than usual in your case?

So what does, then? All very well to hold opinions, but these really need to be backed up with CONCRETE facts.

The only email you're ever likely to receive from the TRD will be one issued bang on the dot at 00:00:01 on 1 April gleefully slapping a 2,000 THB fine on you for missing their 31 March deadline for filing tax returns!😇

The 2024 PND91 form itself looks pretty much identical to its 2023 predecessor. However the separate "Allowance(s) And Exemption(s) After Deduction Of Expense(s)" attachment (needed for both PND90 & PND91 returns) does now include 4 new categories, as follows (with thanks to Mr Google for the English translations): 20. ค่าจ้างก่อสร้างอาคารเพื่ออยู่อาศัยขึ้นใหม่ให้แก่ผู้รับจ้างซึ่งเป็นผู้ประกอบการจดทะเบียนภาษีมูลค่าเพิ่ม 21. ค่าท่องเที่ยวภายในประเทศ (ตั้งแต่วันที่ 1 พ.ค. 2567 – 30 พ.ย. 2567) 22. ค่าซ่อมบ้าน (จากอุทกภัยระหว่างวันที่ 16 ส.ค. 2567 - 31 ธ.ค. 2567) 23. ค่าซ่อมรถ (จากอุทกภัยระหว่างวันที่ 16 ส.ค. 2567 - 31 ธ.ค. 2567) 20. Construction costs for new residential buildings for contractors who are VAT registered operators 21. Domestic tourism expenses (Since the date 1 May 2024 – 30 Nov 2024) 22. Home repair costs (from flooding between 16 Aug 2024 - 31 Dec 2024) 23. Car repair costs (from flooding between 16 Aug 2024 - 31 Dec 2024). Can't see too many of us expats being affected by these additional categories!

Wonder whether this might have more to do with a new so-called "security" measure dreamt up by the US banking sector for funding Wise transfers than with Wise themselves?

Another thing which you need to clarify with the Irish Embassy (and sooner rather than later IMHO) is whether they would be able and willing to issue IMM confirmations based on non-Irish income sources (assuming that your income is entirely UK-sourced). The Immigration Bureau requires those embassies still offering income confirmation services to be specifically able and willing to verify the accuracy of income amounts for which confirmations are being sought (although whether this is generally followed in practice by many embassies is another matter).

Well I for one would be extremely fascinated to be informed of the taxation procedures which applied to overseas income during the 1547 to 1549 war between Thailand and Burma! 🤑

And no question of English language versions of relevant forms being issued by that date, of course. Instead Revenue Department staff have no doubt been instructed by their Director-General to devote all their energies between now and then to the task of drawing up a comprehensive list of all foreigner tax residents (with the eager and willing assistance of their pals in the Immigration Bureau, of course) aimed at gleefully hitting all such foreigners with 2,000 THB fines for non-compliance bang on the dot at 00:00:01 on 1 April!🤑