Labour Department's Minimum Salary Requirement

[Misty]

With so many changes to the requirements for visas and work permits I thought I better double check this one:

Does the Labour Department still require work permit holders to make enough salary to pay income tax of Bt18,000 per year? I think this works out to about Bt31,000 per month.

Thank you, Misty

[Sunbelt Asia]

With so many changes to the requirements for visas and work permits I thought I better double check this one:

Does the Labour Department still require work permit holders to make enough salary to pay income tax of Bt18,000 per year? I think this works out to about Bt31,000 per month.

Thank you, Misty

Officially no. Unofficially in most cases, the unwritten rule is 18K in tax per year if you are an Executive. However in some cases it has been no tax required.

www.sunbeltasiagroup.com

[junkofdavid2]

With so many changes to the requirements for visas and work permits I thought I better double check this one:

Does the Labour Department still require work permit holders to make enough salary to pay income tax of Bt18,000 per year? I think this works out to about Bt31,000 per month.

Thank you, Misty

Officially no. Unofficially in most cases, the unwritten rule is 18K in tax per year if you are an Executive. However in some cases it has been no tax required.

www.sunbeltasiagroup.com

Sunbelt:

What if you are an Executive, but from a "poorer" country (like say, Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines-Etc.)

Is it still 18k per year in tax?

Can it be less and then still get WP renewed?

[Sunbelt Asia]

Sunbelt:

What if you are an Executive, but from a "poorer" country (like say, Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines-Etc.)

Is it still 18k per year in tax?

Can it be less and then still get WP renewed?

The Labor Dept does not look at the nationality for the salary. Immigration does however if you apply for the extension of stay based on business.

If you feel 18K is too much tax, then put the salary at 15,000 per month. ( O% tax then) The Labor Dept will either accept the salary or tell you to increase it. If you are the MD, 100% of the cases, they have said " to raise it to a salary of 35K per month."

By the way some VERY big salaries are paid to Executives from the "poorer countries" in Thailand. I have seen quite a number of cases where the personal tax alone was over 100,000 Baht per month, paid to the government.

www.sunbeltasiagroup.com

[Misty]

The Labor Dept does not look at the nationality for the salary. Immigration does however if you apply for the extension of stay based on business.

If you feel 18K is too much tax, then put the salary at 15,000 per month. ( O% tax then) The Labor Dept will either accept the salary or tell you to increase it. If you are the MD, 100% of the cases, they have said " to raise it to a salary of 35K per month."

By the way some VERY big salaries are paid to Executives from the "poorer countries" in Thailand. I have seen quite a number of cases where the personal tax alone was over 100,000 Baht per month, paid to the government.

www.sunbeltasiagroup.com

Thank you for this, Sunbelt Asia.

Misty