Pension Tax Filing Report - Rejected

[patrickl]

I am helping someone file taxes for their Swiss pension. Most of the funds (90-95%) are transferred every month from Switzerland to Thailand via wire transfer. It doesn't come from savings but straight from the pension (pension -> bank account in Switzerland -> bank account in Thailand). We went to the tax office in one of the major cities today and the officer said there's no need to file for taxes as pensions from outside of Thailand, only if there is income from a job or earnings from rentals, etc. and that pensions are not taxed plus there is a double tax agreement with Thailand and Switzerland. We informed them that no taxes are paid in Switzerland because the person lives here all year and the officer said still there's no need to pay taxes, as the amount of tax would be in her own words "very small" (around 30,000 Baht, after deduction of allowances) and the medical bills and other things that could be deducted are likely higher (the officer didn't even want to see those and we didn't mention any or bring any). I hope they will not come knocking at the door one day but they basically refused to even allow filing taxes or get a tax number.

[offset]

The problems are the individual is still responsible for filing tax 

If the tax officer is wrong (which most do not understand about DTAs) it will still come back on the individual 

 

[EVENKEEL]

5 hours ago, offset said:

The problems are the individual is still responsible for filing tax 

If the tax officer is wrong (which most do not understand about DTAs) it will still come back on the individual 

 

So you're more informed than the Thai Tax official?

 

You simply can't wrap your head around all this talk of taxes is bs

[ukrules]

Just now, EVENKEEL said:

So you're more informed than the Thai Tax official?

 

You simply can't wrap your head around all this talk of taxes is bs

Think of it as being similar to immigration making a mistake on your entry stamp.

It's your responsibility - not theirs. Same thing.

[anrcaccount]

We see the same thing in almost every single real world report: the Thai RD aren't interested in taxation of any foreign remitted income.

 

If you're not working or running a business in Thailand, you don't need to deal with the TRD.

 

That's the status quo, it hasn't changed.

 

 

[motdaeng]

54 minutes ago, anrcaccount said:

If you're not working or running a business in Thailand, you don't need to deal with the TRD.

 

says who? do you have that in writing from the TRD? no, of course not!

 

what we do have is an official document from the TRD that clearly explains who is required to file a tax return. that is a fact. everything else is simply not a fact!