Hi All!

Thanks a lot for keeping this forum alive, I've been reading it for a while and really appreciate all the help.

I think my questions are slightly specific, so I hope I won't be repeating them here. Would appreciate any links in case you remember similar questions asked here already.

SO, I'm changing employers. I already left Old job but my Work Permit is still valid.

My New employer hired an immigration consultancy to help me with the new WP.

My questions are following. Again, would appreciate any advice:

1) This Consultancy company says I have to leave the country and open a Non-B visa and it will take 3-4 weeks. Does it make sense? Last time it took me 1 week tops.

2) I now need to cancel my old WP and Visa. My Old employer says he can do it online. Is this true? Will I have any evidence of this?

I will need cancelled copy or acknowledgement of this as an evidence, can I get it?

3) I also need a Tax Filing Certificate for 2015. I never had it, since I only started end of 2015 and never payed taxes (my 2015 salary was lower than necessary to pay them).

How do you think I can obtain this certificate?

Thanks a lot to everybody!

Damon

Where you repeatedly say "2015", do you mean 2014 ? 2015 hasn't ended yet. Sometime in early 2016, your employer will give you a Tax Certificate for 2015. I would presume they are required to provide it by the end of Feb. If he is by then an ex-employer, you will probably have to go back there to pick it up. Going from memory on this, I believe income tax is due By March 31 for the preceding calendar year.

A note to any teachers reading this: Income tax is payable and due on a calendar year basis. If your contract is on a school-year basis (or any other time period), that is irrelevant.

Where you repeatedly say "2015", do you mean 2014 ? 2015 hasn't ended yet. Sometime in early 2016, your employer will give you a Tax Certificate for 2015. I would presume they are required to provide it by the end of Feb. If he is by then an ex-employer, you will probably have to go back there to pick it up. Going from memory on this, I believe income tax is due By March 31 for the preceding calendar year.

A note to any teachers reading this: Income tax is payable and due on a calendar year basis. If your contract is on a school-year basis (or any other time period), that is irrelevant.

allane, thanks a lot for this clarification.

No, they actually asked for 2015. But I fully get your point - I'm not supposed to have it yet. I will ask them to advice me on this.

Meanwhile, is Tax Certificate equal to Tax Clearance Certificate? According to this link from Revenue Department (http://www.rd.go.th/publish/23518.0.html) I got a feeling that it is something not same as Annual Tax Certificate, but something you get before leaving the country.

I am a 20 yr. resident of Thailand. While I am now retired, I worked for the first 15 of those years, 1995 - 2010. I was never required to show a Tax Clearance Certificate when leaving Thailand. I mention the dates, because during my early years here, some of the resident foreigners mentioned that they used to have to do that, perhaps as late as into the early 1990's. While I have now been out of the labour force for five years, I have heard nothing to state that such a requirement has been reinstated.

I am a 20 yr. resident of Thailand. While I am now retired, I worked for the first 15 of those years, 1995 - 2010. I was never required to show a Tax Clearance Certificate when leaving Thailand. I mention the dates, because during my early years here, some of the resident foreigners mentioned that they used to have to do that, perhaps as late as into the early 1990's. While I have now been out of the labour force for five years, I have heard nothing to state that such a requirement has been reinstated.

I see, allane.

Again, thanks a lot for your help with this question!