CRS has nothing to do with the changes announced so far, which are all related to the taxation of remittances into the country and, unless I missed something, there has been no official mention at all of Thailand trying to tax your income and investments overseas (global taxation, as it's called). There's also no mention of the complicated issue of double-taxation treaties. I have friends and relatives in the UK who worked for HMRC at senior levels and they told me that as soon as things like DTA's got involved in case they had to bring in specialist legal experts from outside to advise them, at great expense, so they had to be pretty sure there was a lot of money at stake to justify the time and cost. In the case of the vast majority of expats here, I really don't see the potential reward from some extra tax on pensions ever justifying the TRD paying for legal experts to get involved.
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