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  1. jesimps
    I suggest you read the OP carefully. The guy's saying that although his pension is frozen, he's still being taxed by HMRC as though he's receiving the annual increase.
  2. jesimps
    Anyone can go on the UK GOV website and fill in a self-assessment form. Takes me about an hour a year to complete. Certainly shorter than the time you waste phoning and writing HMRC.
  3. jesimps
    I had the same problem, so for several years now I've been filling in a self-assessment form so that they know exactly what pension they pay me. Each year I get a rebate.
  4. jesimps
    These days, even though I'm a Brit, I agree with you. You can't get sillier than allowing your country to be given away, at the same time voting in a Labour government.
  5. jesimps
    Bumped into a few here in my single bar-mongering days, even had one in the village where I used to live. Even when you tell them you're ex army yourself, they continue with their fallacy. They must genuinely have convinced themselves that it's true.
  6. jesimps
    Maybe, but stress is more harmful in my opinion and alcohol is a great stress reliever in my case. I'm 80yoa and still walk/jog every other day without too much of a problem. It's more difficult than 20 years ago, but I think I can safely put that down to old age. If I snuff it tomorrow I can't really grumble, there's no way I'm quitting now.
  7. jesimps
    I think it's the height of incompetence that an officer of the TRD dealing with the taxing of foreigners, isn't aware of the DTA. Surely that is an integral part of a farang's tax calculations. I can see a lot of good-intentioned foreigners being burned because of the TRD's ineptitude.
  8. jesimps
    I agree it's nit-picking. Most conveniently refer to it as "Retirement Visa".
  9. jesimps
    All this and the other thousands of posts giving advice on here is irrelevant as long as tax offices are advising that farang do not have to file unless they work here and refuse to issue a TIN. Have a contingency plan by all means, but unless something concrete is published BY THE TRD, I reckon any foreigner is wasting his time visiting a local tax office. It certainly was the case personally.
  10. jesimps
    From personal experience with Jomtien Tax Office, I second that. By the way, it would be helpful on these threads if posters would mention which tax office their successes/failures occurred.
  11. jesimps
    After many years of my online reports being confirmed first attempt, the last two, despite many attempts at each, were rejected and I had to do them in person at Jomtien. The lady there said something about their computer being unmanned when I made the attempts, which I regard as nonsense. I'll see how it goes next month when I try filing my next one.
  12. jesimps
    Conflicting information again, which is the problem with this whole business. I've been advised by a lawyer that UK ex-government workers, exempted by the UK/Thailand DTA, are not required to file here.
  13. jesimps
    Same here. Which tax office? Any suggestions, short of planting a horse's head on the desk, on how to prise a TIN from them? Nobody, apart from us neurotic expats, appears to be concerned.
  14. jesimps
    Good luck with that. Hope you have more success than me. Let us know the result and which tax office you used please.
  15. jesimps
    I haven't seen anyone state that they don't intend to keep records.

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