@Steve *******

it look little bit easy to spend 2 or 3 month per year in a other country and say "this is my permanent home" and my "tax home"

@Steve *******

but how you can be tax resident in your home country if you never go there and have nothing there ?? you don't need to spend more than 6 month and/or don't have the most interest in this country ? i don't think you can "chose"

@Bob *********

yes, but you "probably" (certainly?) need to get tin in thailand and make tax report ( even if it is 0 )

you are right, but not easy to find, and a lot are about make business in thailand, not about internationnal tax ...

@John *********

DTA is about double tax agrement, and not the tax residence ? it allow you to have tax credit / and or lower the tax from foreign country in your tax residence.

For example DTA even between european country allow to have lower tax from foreign country, but not 0%, for example for America, you pay 30% on dividend if your tax country has not DTA, but you can lower it to 15% ( so you have double tax, but lower ... ), same same between european country or all country with dta.

Some kind of income may even be 0% depending of the dta and the income ( i talk about dividend )

@Rob ********

even money you get before without pay tax ( for example if the country don't require to pay tax on some income you get ) you will not pay tax on it if you remit in thailand. ( it is saving prior your thai tax residence ). ( thailand is not implicated in your income (and tax related) that you get previously your thai tax resident.

For the new income money you get AFTER the year you become thai tax resident you pay tax on it in thailand if you remit the income here ( but you can use tax credit for tax you pay alread abroad on that (new) income ).

HZ Mendenhall i try to have some personnal experience about it, not advice.

@Rob ********

Hello, yes but too simple, only on income, if you have saving earn before you are thai tax resident and remit it , you don't pay on it .. but you need to be able to document it ...

Saving can be money in bank account, stocks, realestate ( you will pay tax for capital gain if exist for stocks/realestate ).

Maybe read this : /03/revenue-department-boss-calls-on-tax-residents-in-thailand-to-file-2024-runs-by-the-march-31st-deadline/

"Certainly, this year, all expats who have been residents of Thailand for 180 days or more in the course of the last year are liable to file a return. The return pertains to taxable income earned within Thailand and remitted to Thailand during 2024."

@Rob ********

no problem, do you have some interest and stock in broker ? i focus about tax from interest and dividend from outside thailand. For now i am taxed as tax resident of other country ( my old one ), i want do tin thai and everything to remove this tax as i am not tax resident in my old country anymore (and i don't live there anymore, and i have no business/wife/children there ).

For example now, if i have stock in Coca Cola, i pay 15% tax from america, and 30% tax in my old country.

I want pay 15% tax from america, and pay tax in thailand ( if i remit that income in thailand ) ( and 0% (after america tax ) if i don't remit in thailand.