Thai gov. to tax (remitted) income from abroad for tax residents starting 2024 - Part II

[chiang mai]

I extended my anual stay visa in Chiang Mai this week, as expected there was no mention made of tax or TIN's. I was asked what the value of my pensions is, for the first time, so I gave them a low ball number.....which is what I hope others are doing also (no need to propagate the idea that all foreigners are wealthy). 

[jwest10]

15 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

I extended my anual stay visa in Chiang Mai this week, as expected there was no mention made of tax or TIN's. I was asked what the value of my pensions is, for the first time, so I gave them a low ball number.....which is what I hope others are doing also (no need to propagate the idea that all foreigners are wealthy). 

Great to hear I was asked that several years ago by the Authorities who came to my house but no one knows what is going to happen in 2025 and yes, the extension comes up in January 2025

 

[The Cyclist]

10 hours ago, UKresonant said:

I had understood that a NT tax code was almost impossible to obtain  from the UK tax authority HMRC, in relation to residency in Thailand. It was likely stay to stay that way, as long as Thailand was remittance based tax.  Could reclaim using a Thai tax cert against UK tax though.

 

Has UK HMRC  issued any updates?

 

 

The process is fairly simple, although it would be advisable to get a Tax Accountant to do the Donkey work with HMRC.

 

1. Government Pension, no way, unless you are a dual National who returns to original Country

 

2. State Pension. Dont know, but I think the above would apply.

 

3. Private pensions, perfectly feasible.

 

Obtain other Country TIN

 

Give to Tax Accountant with details of what you want the NT Tax code to apply to

 

Let the Tax Accountant do the rest.

 

When the dust settles here in Thailand. I'll probably go down that route with my private pension as it will probably benefit me to have it taxed in Thailand, rather than a straight 20% in the UK

 

P85 is the form that needs completed, which can be found and completed online on the HMRC website.

[The Cyclist]

2 hours ago, chiang mai said:

I extended my anual stay visa in Chiang Mai this week, as expected there was no mention made of tax or TIN's. I was asked what the value of my pensions is, for the first time, so I gave them a low ball number.....which is what I hope others are doing also (no need to propagate the idea that all foreigners are wealthy). 

 

Renewed on Thursday.

 

No mention of TIN's / Tax / or Pensions. Just the usual, in and out in 30 minutes.

[jwest10]

On 11/24/2024 at 7:58 AM, The Cyclist said:

 

Renewed on Thursday.

 

No mention of TIN's / Tax / or Pensions. Just the usual, in and out in 30 minutes.

There are no forms pnd 90 and 91's as yet when coming out, of ever and also hearing some banks are sending emails out confirming your Nationality and has anyone received either of these yet?

[The Cyclist]

6 minutes ago, jwest10 said:

and also hearing some banks are sending emails out confirming your Nationality and has anyone received either of these yet?

 

There is a whole thread dedicated to KBank who emailed out the forms over the weekend.

 

 

6 minutes ago, jwest10 said:

There are no forms pnd 90 and 91's as yet

 

Yet, being the  operative word.

[jwest10]

On 11/27/2024 at 11:09 AM, jwest10 said:

There are no forms pnd 90 and 91's as yet when coming out, of ever and also hearing some banks are sending emails out confirming your Nationality and has anyone received either of these yet?

The middle of Dec and still no forms 90 or 91  and the Exemption Tax allowances and have again been up to my local tax office and they seem to have no idea if and when and in any case stated again that I would be well under the 500k or 560K threshold and do not work here.
I explained again that I have a pink card and so many times been told that I do not need to file a tax form.
They also asked if I am in employment and stated no I do not then you do not need to but keeping manual records of what income comes in ie The State Pension and very small amounts of private pension and some already taxed
Cheers just trying to be helpful but at the end of the day I do not think anyone knows and so many experts!!! 

[redwood1]

1 hour ago, jwest10 said:

The middle of Dec and still no forms 90 or 91  and the Exemption Tax allowances and have again been up to my local tax office and they seem to have no idea if and when and in any case stated again that I would be well under the 500k or 560K threshold and do not work here.
I explained again that I have a pink card and so many times been told that I do not need to file a tax form.
They also asked if I am in employment and stated no I do not then you do not need to but keeping manual records of what income comes in ie The State Pension and very small amounts of private pension and some already taxed
Cheers just trying to be helpful but at the end of the day I do not think anyone knows and so many experts!!! 

 

Everyone who posts about taxes here is a expert.....I myself am quite the tax expert.....And my expert advice is when Thais or the Chinese,Russians,and Indian expats start filing taxes ( if ever)......Then it will be time to file taxes......

[chiang mai]

8 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

 

Everyone who posts about taxes here is a expert.....I myself am quite the tax expert.....And my expert advice is when Thais or the Chinese,Russians,and Indian expats start filing taxes ( if ever)......Then it will be time to file taxes......

How will we know when they do?

[redwood1]

3 minutes ago, chiang mai said:

How will we know when they do?

 

Trust me it will be all over the news.....These folks will be making quite the news worthy stink about any taxes...

[chiang mai]

12 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

 

Trust me it will be all over the news.....These folks will be making quite the news worthy stink about any taxes...

News where, Thailand? I doubt that, they don't have a public voice or mouth piece here and even the English speaking media isn't going to print stories about it. Unlike westerners, my guess is that we will hear nothing publically about them, they are not known for their western style whinging. It's also quite a bit easier for those nationals to skip home and avoid 180 days, those countries are much closer than farangland countries. Also, those countries don't have reliable compliant government information sharing schemes and none have comparable pension schemes such as US SSc, UK State Pension or US pension schemes hence traceability is going to be very different. Correction: India has state pensions.

[sandyf]

 

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[Lorry]

10 hours ago, chiang mai said:

News where, Thailand? I doubt that, they don't have a public voice or mouth piece here and even the English speaking media isn't going to print stories about it. Unlike westerners, my guess is that we will hear nothing publically about them, they are not known for their western style whinging. It's also quite a bit easier for those nationals to skip home and avoid 180 days, those countries are much closer than farangland countries. Also, those countries don't have reliable compliant government information sharing schemes and none have comparable pension schemes such as US SSc, UK State Pension or US pension schemes hence traceability is going to be very different. Correction: India has state pensions.

Quite a few of the Chinese here are from HK or Taiwan, which have very efficient government information sharing schemes and pension schemes