OK Guys,

 

Quickie for you.

 

My phone pinged this morning and an SMS, it was Krung Thai Bank. 

 

It was an urgent message saying under the rules and regulations, I must report etc and collect my bank statements and go to the tax office blah, blah,

 

We went straight to the tax office yet again.

 

I produced all documents prof and evidence. This time, the senior official was in good form.

 

I was given the official yellow tax receipt with official Garuda stamps, they said I was way under my tax allowance limit and nothing to pay.

 

It is stamped 0.00 to pay.

 

I have filed it at home.

So your bank instructed you to get some kind of proof of tax filing a full month before it's due even though you didn't need to do one.

Did you already have a tax id number?

 

That is really odd

5 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

OK Guys,

 

Quickie for you.

 

My phone pinged this morning and an SMS, it was Krung Thai Bank. 

 

It was an urgent message saying under the rules and regulations, I must report etc and collect my bank statements and go to the tax office blah, blah,

 

We went straight to the tax office yet again.

 

I produced all documents prof and evidence. This time, the senior official was in good form.

 

I was given the official yellow tax receipt with official Garuda stamps, they said I was way under my tax allowance limit and nothing to pay.

 

It is stamped 0.00 to pay.

 

I have filed it at home.

 

The SMS you received from Krungthai bank was in relation to this below. Have a read. 

 

FYI, it has absolutely nothing to do with filing for Thai tax, so your excursion to the tax office was completely unrelated. But , all good for you anyway. 

 

 

 

 

 

9 hours ago, ukrules said:

So your bank instructed you to get some kind of proof of tax filing a full month before it's due even though you didn't need to do one.

Did you already have a tax id number?

 

That is really odd

 

Well, it came through on my phone.

 

Anyway, I went and filed, they said I owed nothing and gave me the yellow tax receipt dated and stamped to prove it.

 

I must be honest, I don't know what the hell they are doing, but some comments unnerved me on here.

 

At least it's done and dusted.

Guys,

 

I am offering no advice at all.

 

I just knew I owed them nothing, and now I have a receipt to prove it.

Did you already have a Thai tax ID from previous employment, reclaiming interest earned on savings, etc in past years gone by or anything like that?

5 hours ago, ukrules said:

Did you already have a Thai tax ID from previous employment, reclaiming interest earned on savings, etc in past years gone by or anything like that?

 

I had Tax ID before because I used to have Thai limited companies, I was the main shareholder, of course back in the day there was employee insurance etc, that was many years ago.

 

However, I closed those companies down in a correct fashion through a lawyer when I became ill..

 

So, this time I was starting afresh after many years of zero work in Thailand.

 

I still do some unrelated business in the UK and Cambodia. My UK income, I pay over there.

 

My Cambodian interest is taxed at source.

 

I don't do anything in Thailand apart from living here, and spending money which I transfer in from savings.

 

They said I was well under the threshold of the money transferred in and the allowances I am entitled to.

 

Not only that, but I am too young for pensions, so they were not in the equation.

 

They used my pink card and issued a new Thai tax ID based on that.

 

 

12 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

Anyway, I went and filed, they said I owed nothing and gave me the yellow tax receipt dated and stamped to prove it.

Nobody owes anything, but some of us will get extorted...