Dear readers,
If I work in Thailand, do I have to pay Alien Income Tax of 30.000 Baht/month? Someone told me that and I had never heard of it.
Regards,
Fred
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Officially you also have to pay income tax in Thailand. Also as a foreigner working in Thailand. This is as much as what a Thai has to pay, and is not a fixed amount. Not even a fixed percentage, but variable. See: https://home.kpmg.com/xx/en/home/insights/2011/12/thailand-income-tax.html
Doesn't seem right to me:
See http://www.rd.go.th/publish/6045.0.html
taxable income
(baht) Tax Rate (%)
more than 150,000 but less than 300,000 5
more than 300,000 but less than 500,000 10
more than 500,000 but less than 750,000 15
more than 750,000 but less than 1,000,000 20
more than 1,000,000 but less than 2,000,000 25
more than 2,000,000 but less than 4,000,000 30
About 4,000,000 35
If I put it very dryly: When you come from the earth, you don't have to pay this tax. Only if you come from another planet! “Alien tax”
It's just called income tax and not Alientax.
I also have the impression that there are relatively more Aliens who (wrongly) do not pay this tax than people from the Thai soil.
There is an exemption of at least 150.000 Baht for the first 90.000 Baht.
In total, therefore, nothing is paid for the first 240.000.
Most Thai people will therefore not be subject to tax with their income.
As noted earlier, Thailand does indeed have a progressive tax rate. Most Thai people do not pay income tax because their income does not exceed the tax-free scale. Because minimum wages are linked to the functions that foreigners (better term than aliens) are allowed to perform with a work permit, they are normally liable to pay tax.
I suspect that the 30,000 baht that Fred heard someone talk about is income and not tax. Thirty thousand baht per month is, in my opinion, a fairly common income for, for example, a teacher outside of Bangkok.
Incidentally, the foreigner can also make use of deductions, such as the care for more than 1 (own) child of school age in Thailand. But a tax specialist can advise you better.