Do I have to pay taxes in both my home country and Thailand if I remain for over 180 days?

@Rikki ******

Not in all cases no.. Entirely DTA dependant.

'Some' pensions are taxed at source, eg us social security or military pensions, but most tax deferred pensions, private pensions, etc etc Even some government operated ones like Oz super are fully taxable in Thailand (on remittance, over 180 days, all the many variables). ISA SIPP etc pensions are tax delaying systems and are taxable where resident at disbursement.

Also these days people talk about pensions and often include shares, dividends, other investments they make for old age as 'pension' or mistakenly believe them to be 'savings' as Thailand defines it. Those are all 'income' also potentially capital gains if remitted..

The law here is incredibly broad, the enforcement is non existent. Thailand 101.

@Sefton *******

Well I’ve never heard of that… maybe I have learnt something today.

@Elías *******

it does, but only once you become a Thai tax resident

@Sefton *******

It's illegal for foreigners to offer Thai tax advice. It's a restricted occupation.

@Elías *******

card spending is a remittance.

A hard to track one but still legally a remittance

@Sefton *******

there is a difference between debit and credit card remittances. One may be taxed the other not. Doing into debt is not a taxable event.

@Pete ******

It'sa complex one but I agree.

One counter argument is if you pay off the debt with taxable income while retaining the goods or services incounttry you lose that advantage. You can't take a 1 day loan, send it in, call it debt, then pay it off with external (taxable if remitted) funds the next day and say it is non taxable debt.

But now it's into the tiniest of splitting hairs and I doubt there's even legal precedent only opinion to work with.