Who has experience with AOW tax refunds at the Korat office?

Hello Sander. Yep. Last February for the 7th time filed in Korat city at the Revenue office 1/2 at the (182) Assadan Road. What I have been doing for years, is to hand in 12 copies of each month with the international deposit (+/- 50,000฿) to my Bangkok bank account.

I also made an Excel sheet, which I also hand in, with those 12 monthly deposits. Resulting (as an example) in 600,000฿ for a year. Then I also have the deductions on that sheet. In MY case; 100,000 fixed deduction, 60,000 (I am not married), 190,000฿ as a 65-plus. Then 1st slice of 150,000 = 0% to be paid. All this added up results in 500,000 free. That leaves 100,000 with 5% to be paid, so that is 5,000฿. (I have to pay a little more, but it is just an example). This is what I have on that Excel sheet.
No problem at all. No questions about whether I have other bank accounts, world income, pension/svb statements etc. None of this.

I have only had AOW for 1,5 years, and have not applied or raised the reduction scheme. Well, I don't want to be a bigot, but I thought it was SO little that I honestly didn't bother to raise it. I would do this if I had to transfer significantly more per month (for example, suppose 'our' visa support letter would expire, just like the last time at the Canadian Embassy).

So I am also curious how people will react to the reduction scheme there if some DO raise/apply it. (Please note, this is my story for Korat city)

Dear Sander, in TH you pay PIT on that part of your income that you have transferred to TH. For one person this is his entire AOW and/or pension or both sources of income, for another this is savings up to 2023. The TRD does not care whether your TH 'foreign sourced income' comes from one or the other, and it is up to you to prove this. Print form PIT91 and make your own declaration with a pencil and eraser: https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/download/english_form/030265PIT91.pdf

First, look at your TH bank account, and add up what you have received in TH transfers. Suppose you arrive at ฿1,2M(illion), consisting of ฿500K in AOW benefits, ฿500K in pension and ฿200K in savings. Get a bank statement from your TH bank regarding that ฿1,2M and show the TRD with NL transfers that ฿200K indeed comes from savings 2023.

Now enter ฿2K on page 91 of the printed PIT1 form at point A1.000.
At point 2: ฿190K, and at point 4: ฿100K. At point 6: ฿60K for you, if married ฿120K.
On page 3 you complete the relevant questions.
I assume you are married so at point 11 you end up with: ฿590K.

You now calculate the tax to be paid on that amount. That will be: ฿41K. Point 12.
At point 13 you enter the AOW reduction: for convenience ฿10K.
So point 14 and 20 becomes: ฿31K. Don't be alarmed, it's just an example. Fictional stuff, then.
In addition to the TH-NL bank statements, you must also bring the SVB AOW statement and the calculated AOW reduction.

That's it. Most Dutch people book a 'foreign sourced income' of ฿800K, and minus AOW reduction end up with a final amount of TH tax to be paid of around ฿7K.

I would like to point you to a discussion in, among other places, https://www.thailandblog.nl/lezers-inzending/naar-het-belastingkantoor-in-pak-chong-voor-belastingaangifte-lezersinzending/ No AOW reduction calculation required, and ฿0,0 Thai tax.