Clive, I recommend you read the DTC with the UK and Thailand. You can find it here



For others reading this thread, I'll post screen prints of 2 relevant paragraphs in the Treaty with the UK, here and in the linked comment. Article 6 says, in effect, UK income is not taxable in Thailand but any income moved to Thailand is subject to Thai tax assessment.

Article 19 (2) is complicated. See the next screen print

You will have paid some tax in the UK on a pension that allows you to bring in 65k every month. That's about £17,300 and the Personal Allowance is £12,570. Maybe you have other income in the UK, and your tax code was adjusted to collect tax due on your pension from there? Thailand also has tax-free allowances and then a rising scale. Quite likely there will be no additional tax to pay in Thailand when you show them P60.

I've opened accounts at Bangkok Bank (Aug 2024) on 90 day visa, and Kasikorn Bank just a couple of weeks ago. Go to Immigration Office with the docs you have, plus photocopies for them to keep. Ask for Residency Letter for opening Bank account. I paid 300 baht for this before taking in to Kasikorn. Or use an agency

@Mark *******

we'll miss you

@Ling ****

Well done announcing your intention to evade Thai income tax law

@Neil *****

2024 is the first year it will apply to earnings brought from overseas. 2025 is the first year many of us will have to fill in that form.

@Andy ***********

No. You are obligated to fill in a tax return listing the money you bring into Thailand. And then producing evidence to show what tax you have already paid in other countries. That may or may not leave you with a tax liability in Thailand.

Everything up to here is fact already. Here is where I'll speculate. Thai authorities will become concerned at the level of both ignorance and tax evasion on the part of foreign residents. The government will then instruct Immigration to seek evidence of tax returns filed when foreigners apply for an extension of stay

@Bradley ********

The previous 2 decades are irrelevant, when the Thai government decided to apply their tax rules to foreign residents with effect from 2024

@Ken **********

" .... so income is not income ... " has to be the dumbest argument I've heard for a while

@Bradley ********

today's first casual racist chips in to abuse our hosts .....