Is it wise to avoid staying over 180 days in Thailand to prevent tax issues?

Participant(e) anonyme if you don't want to be tax resident in thailand, don't stay more than 180 days in thailand. Your home country mean nothing about tax, what is important is : 1/ your country tax residency ( that will probably be thailand if you stay more than 180 days here). 2/ the country from where come your income. If you remit that income to thailand, you need to pay maybe tax money on it, if the income come from country with dta, you can use them as tax credit ( to lower the thai tax to maybe / probably 0 ). What kind of income you have ? The benefit of being thai tax is you may not have to pay tax elsewhere ( or lower tax ). If you already pay > 35% on income from dta country you will pay 0% in thailand. If your income is about 1.7 millions baht/yearly and already pay about 20% tax from dta country you will pay 0 in thailand. The main problem is that even if you have to pay 0, you need to do tax report and accounting ( most people dont do ) 😞

Anonymous participant if you don't want TIN and pay taxes here, you can't stay here longer than 180 days.

@Lincoln *****

while having a bank account is not allowed on a DTV, either being married to a Thai national or owning a condo makes you elegible to have one, according to the reports

@Jon *********

First of all you are reponsible yourself to tell them your income, and there are a lot of ways to track.

Not doing so while you have income might result in fines.

@Jon *********

CSR, fatca and many more

@Jon *********

that’s what my point is….

Anonymous participant 600 You keep saying this, and it is simply incorrect.

The DTA may protect you having a tax obligation, it does not protect you from a filing obligation.

Anonieme deelnemer 600 THE DTA, each country has its own DTA or not, but you cannot talk about THE in this case, so rules are different for different nationalities. Going to jail because you forgot to file your tax is not very likely, also visas cancelled is unlikely, but theoretically not impossible.

@Sefton *******

It's totally legal. Article 4 of the relevant DTA covers it. There's a tie break formula to determine sole taxation rights. The DTA is covered under the Tax Code

Participante anónimo you watch too much TV

Anonymous participant elaborate what exactly? Thai tax law is published in English on the Revenue Department website. Nothing more to add.

@Sjef **************

no

@Sjef **************

what will you eat, dust?

@Sjef **************

No

Anonymous participant 600 Correct. Unfortunately, this amazing government is planning to change it in the near future to make it compulsory for all whether you're making money in Thailand or not. 🙄

Anonymous participant 600 indeed but only in the situation where the person is a tax resident of both countries. In that case there are a set of tie breakers to determine which country retains taxation rights

@Alexander ******

total in calendar year.