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Home » Expats and retirees » Passport and ID card rates for 2021 for Dutch citizens in Thailand
Passport and ID card rates for 2021 for Dutch citizens in Thailand
Posted in Expats and retirees, Passport
Tags: Border municipality, Travel documents, Rates
The rates for travel documents via embassies, consular posts and border municipalities for 2021 are now known.
Maximum rates apply to passports and Dutch identity cards. Separate rates apply for, for example, emergency documents and urgent deliveries.
If you live in Thailand, in 2021 you will pay € 10 at the embassy or consulate for a 142,60-year passport and € 5 for a 124,40-year passport.
If you are temporarily in the Netherlands, you can also go to a border municipality where the rates are slightly lower. You then pay € 10 for a 112,72-year passport
See all rates here: Travel document rates 2021
The Dutch living abroad are once again given a nice leg.
Pure discrimination in my opinion.
@Geertg,
In the context of transparency in costs whereby residents living in the Netherlands do not have to contribute to extra costs for the Dutch outside the national borders, it is not strange, is it?
It might be good to finally show the people the consequences of a decision. The government is doing it step by step, but the scenario has long been known because of the long-term calculators that say in which direction it should go.
I don't know your age but don't envy people up to around 25 years old.
In my opinion, transparency in the costs for such a passport should be an issue. Especially if you are going to charge these kinds of amounts for this service. It's wet finger work now. Those passports are made in the Netherlands and then transported to Thailand. So they can go with the ambassador or his staff in a suitcase. The personnel costs for completing these documents will also not cost more in Thailand, I assume, because the personnel here earn the same or less as in the Netherlands. Then why this price difference. If you take into account those few passports, paying tax for this by Dutch people in the Netherlands will also be a drop in the ocean. Incidentally, I am a Dutchman in Thailand and as a retired civil servant I still pay full tax in the Netherlands. So that kite doesn't work for me. No, it really makes no sense at all about this price difference.
A passport in the Netherlands costs a maximum of 94,50 and in Thailand 142,60, a difference of Euro 48,10. Those who live in Thailand have no municipal levies, no water board charges, no real estate tax, low cleaning levy, no sewerage tax and often lower income tax or, if a low income, even none in Thailand. But a new car every few years, tourist trips that cost 100 Euros per day or a holiday of more than 1000 Euros a year a few times a year or other major expenses that are not necessary. And complaining about a rate difference of 48 euros for a period of 10 years, while people have consciously made the choice to no longer live in the Netherlands and do not realize that the government has to incur extra costs for sending and registering the Dutch national abroad . You sometimes have to take extra costs for granted, well I think the converted 4,80 per year extra for a passport because you live abroad, given all other expenses, is a bargain.
Aren't you exaggerating a bit?
The costs to issue a passport abroad will undoubtedly be higher than to issue a passport in the Netherlands.
The passports that go abroad probably go through a separate department of the passport issuance.
Then they have to be taken to Schiphol and to the plane, where they – I read once – go with them in the cockpit.
Something that is obvious, because diplomatic mail undoubtedly does not go through the baggage hold.
That service of the cockpit must have a hefty price tag.
Then someone from the embassy has to collect the mail and then you have the administrative processing at the embassy.
That sounds like an expensive hobby for probably only small numbers of passports at a time.
I wonder if the price is cost effective.
Diplomatic mail just goes in hold. I unloaded and loaded planes for 29 years until April 2018, so I know something about it. Because I have a Thai partner often got the Bangkok box (whip on purpose).
Just an addition:
You do not have to go to 1 of the so-called border municipalities, but you can also go to the municipality of The Hague
They are probably inlaid with gold. Then it is understandable. Will be curious what the prices will be in 2024 when it's my turn again. I'm just going to save now.
@Jacques,
In fact, you are making yourself very ridiculous even though I don't know your monthly costs. The difference is 30 euros for a 10-year passport and why not apply for it now if it can save you barely a few baht per day?
If 30 euros extra is too much to pay for a 10-year event, then there is something wrong with your financial planning or else it is populist posturing that really does not benefit anyone.
Dear Johnny, I look at everything for its value and think it's just too much money for such a book. I paid about 65 euros in the Netherlands for my old passport. The price difference cannot be explained and that it is slightly more expensive in Thailand, I understand that. 75 euros is an extreme price for me. It doesn't matter that those few cents don't make me poorer either. I would like to push the matter one more time. I am concerned with the principle of making a distinction between Dutch people in the Netherlands and abroad. They got quite a bit of help from that. Also those jealous-looking expressions of fellow Dutch people, who don't like the fact that people choose to move to a warm country in their old age and have to pay for it, I think that's also mine.
For Belgians, a passport costs €65 at the municipality in Belgium, €75 if applied for at a consular post abroad. Valid for 7 years as standard. Via urgent procedure, in Belgium or abroad, price 240€.
My opinion: if Belgium can do it for that rate, why not NL?
Because we pay less tax in the Netherlands than the Belgians, the tax burden in the Netherlands is 39% and in Belgium it is 45%, I read in Wikipedia. The municipalities receive funds from the national government to carry out their tasks and through the passport fees the municipalities can "earn" a supplement to the government funds. The difference between Belgium and the Netherlands is 70 Euro and the Dutch passport is valid for 10 years, a few Euro difference on an annual basis, well give me significantly lower Dutch tax and then spend a few Euro extra for a passport.