12 hours ago, AAArdvark said:

I don't so much care about paying the tax, it is the major hassles with customs and shipping delays. 

 

Nailed it..

 

A few times now I have received the dreaded card in the mail to go pay import taxes.

 

1.5hr round trip from my work to the main Chonburi post office to pay a few hundred baht,

On 11/6/2025 at 7:30 AM, webfact said:

In a significant policy shift, Thailand's Customs Department announced today that starting January 1, 2026, all foreign goods sold online will face an import duty if valued at more than 1 baht. This move will end the current exemption for items priced below 1,500 baht, which will expire at the end of this year. The introduction of this duty, alongside the existing Value Added Tax (VAT), is predicted to generate at least 3 billion Thai baht annually for the government.

Cash strapped Thailand.... 

On 11/7/2025 at 8:42 PM, spidermike007 said:

When a country is burdened by politicians who are lacking vision and unable to come up with creative solutions for economic problems, the default position is to charge more taxes.

 

Very dull groups like the Trump administration are doing the same thing in the US only they're trying to disguise the taxes as tariffs, but in reality that is just a tax hike on the consumer. The long-term effect is to slow down the economy and create significant job loss. 

I could not help but notice the rise in the Bhat just lately as oil prices rise, could this be manipulation

On 11/6/2025 at 10:23 AM, Will B Good said:

 

 

Could mean all the Chinese counterfeit goods become no longer available????

China is flooding the market with *throw away* goods of all kinds. Some of the parcels the customs open are astounding. Plastic hair clips for kids, toys that are not safety standard , badly made tools/ electronics etc and then copies , clothes that don’t wash 1 wash. The world is drowning in waste. Seas and rivers are polluted. A friend of mine has made his fortune in the package  that shirts are packed in,  only that see through stuff ! He’s not 50, retired , has a seaside villa in France , a penthouse in Paris , and will never need to work again.  Shenzhen is the main culprit in all that’s wrong in China. 

On 11/6/2025 at 1:31 PM, Bangkok Alex said:

So, I can sense something coming.

 

All Chinese products will cost 1 baht with higher shipping cost.

 

There is always a loophole people will exploit.

 

If not that, something else

A few years back I ordered a door gasket for my UK washing machine. Thai Customs demanded 100% import duty plus the thieving g**s also taxed the postage costs at 100%. I had to pay or lose my spare part. They are the ones that assess the value to charge duty on, they have no interest in proof of cost, take a wild guess and double it. Official corruption is government sanctioned and there  seems no oversight. 

 

So a 1000 baht item should cost 1 baht and 1050 baht postage but the greedy s.o.b's will simply tax the postage like they did to me. I am below the tax threshold, simply because I send  pension money from the UK via WISE individually to the family members I support, so no one gets close to the Thai taxable limit, it's all done before the money leaves my home country bank so no paper trail for scumbags to follow. It's already taxed in my home country anyway.  The DTA is no help as Thailand has different and far higher tax rates on pensions than does the UK so it saves me real money by doing this and the aggregate WISE fees are very little more.

The taxes keep on piling up for all and make things harder for the Thai Joe public plus foreigners... only thing I have to say is "No taxation without representation", buch of facist nationalists really.

1 minute ago, cliveshep said:

A few years back I ordered a door gasket for my UK washing machine. Thai Customs demanded 100% import duty plus the thieving g**s also taxed the postage costs at 100%. I had to pay or lose my spare part. They are the ones that assess the value to charge duty on, they have no interest in proof of cost, take a wild guess and double it. Official corruption is government sanctioned and there  seems no oversight. 

 

So a 1000 baht item should cost 1 baht and 1050 baht postage but the greedy s.o.b's will simply tax the postage like they did to me.

  Taxes calculated on CIF is common would wide.

Just now, Ralf001 said:

  Taxes calculated on CIF is common would wide.

Exciting stuff perhaps if I knew what CIF meant! Whatever it is it makes no sense to pay tax twice by different countries on the same money.. 

2 minutes ago, cliveshep said:

Exciting stuff perhaps if I knew what CIF meant! Whatever it is it makes no sense to pay tax twice by different countries on the same money.. 

Cost, Insurance and Freight

On 11/6/2025 at 7:40 AM, johng said:

Just what everyone needs....yet more taxation !   👎

This could mean Costalot the great Greek taxman at every knock off stall in los 

13 hours ago, Sir Dude said:

The taxes keep on piling up for all and make things harder for the Thai Joe public plus foreigners... only thing I have to say is "No taxation without representation", buch of facist nationalists really.

Tax gunga 500%, that would wipe the smile off the new one 

 

Off topic deflection posts and replies about Trump have been removed.

On 11/6/2025 at 2:05 AM, HappyExpat57 said:

We're ALREADY paying exorbitant rates for all goods imported.

ábsolutly  not  

-if you mean wine and  cars ok  (but this are special taxes not importtax)

- but other import dutys are  same / lower than in other countrys. balme the retailers for ex makro or bigc ,look at their operating margin and net profit margin ,far higher than in many western coutrys.

 

i imported a coffemaschine  for exmample:

 

2000 euro  ,i get back 19% ineurope VAT refund by shipping outisde the eu. payed in thailand 7% vat and 12.5% importduty.. plus fees and transport (and even transport from <eu to here is very cheap payed 32kg 90euro)

 

so the maschine at the end little more than in europe  , 1 bought only ONE !! from an retailer in europe, but in BKK was asking for the same maschine 150.000   so what i ask why , they said high taxes ,bullshi

 

and dont forget free trade agrement !!! with australia and other states