Reader question: Who in Hua Hin has already received an M form from the tax authorities?

Linda, is right here. I live in Sattahip and it's the same there, big mess and just like you describe it. I have also lost mail countless times or it was not delivered. Especially the life certificates from SVB and Pensioenfonds, hit every year. I then figured out, years ago, how it works. The mail arrives at Swampy and then goes to the Main Post Office in Bangkok. There it is sorted by province, Chonburi for me, and then goes to Si Racha Postal Service (where most of it disappears, gone). There the mail is sorted by zip code which is the same for everyone in your village or city. The mail for Sattahip is then taken to Sattahip post office via a regular bus, where it is then sorted by address. If there is a stand-in for the regular postman and he cannot find the address, he throws the letters in the first garbage can. So much for the Thai postal service.

Well, then I'm a lucky bastard! But you are right, order is often hard to find.

Incidentally, we have experienced here that Western people with a PO box did not always receive their mail. Cause: an older mail sorter could not read Western script, so mail was put in the wrong mailbox, and the recipient threw it in the round archive….. We take it neatly to the hatch.

Read well Linda. I am not talking about downloading a tax return, but about consulting the correspondence between you and the Tax and Customs Administration. That is another tab on the secure part of the website of the Tax and Customs Administration.

I have 5 M notes on my desk so far and 3 more are on their way from Thailand. So I do know what an M ticket is. And for all these 8 customers, the date of dispatch of the ticket is indeed stated on the website of the Tax and Customs Administration. The fact that this is not the case with you, while it has not yet been delivered to you by the post, can only indicate one thing: the Tax and Customs Administration has not yet issued you an M form. especially for customers who only receive an AOW benefit. The Tax and Customs Administration can then see that the tax credits and the deduction of social insurance premiums have been stopped in time by the SVB and will not have to file a return! The Tax and Customs Administration has even devised a separate slogan for this, namely: "We can't make it any easier for you."

Incidentally, your comment that an M ticket is issued to people “who live abroad” is very incomplete / careless. As a non-resident taxpayer, you usually have to fill in a C form. You can fill in the C form via Mijn Belastingdienst. Incidentally, there is also the possibility to request a paper C form via the Foreign Tax Information Line. This is especially intended for the digital illiterate among us. A paper C-bill was even sent to a Thai customer of mine unsolicited. He no longer has access to a working DigiD. I have therefore requested a username and password for him from the Tax and Customs Administration. I really hate paper declarations. Unfortunately, you cannot escape this with an M declaration.

The M form only applies to you if you have lived part of the year in the Netherlands and part of the year abroad. But also if you live in the Netherlands again after remigration from Thailand.