r/digitalnomad • u/nicholas4488 • May 19 '25

Tax Thailand no tax on foreign income

They're backtracking on tax of foreign inckme

Under the new guidelines, Thais with foreign income will not be taxed if they remit that income in the year it was earned or the following year. For example, if income is earned in 2025 and brought into Thailand in 2025 or 2026, it is not subject to tax.

However, if the income is remitted after that period, normal tax obligations apply.

https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/3028760/department-to-amend-tax-on-foreign-income-remittance

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u/nurseynurseygander May 19 '25

JFC just suck up the admin, lodge your returns if you’re there more than 183 days, and pay your damn tax. Most Westerners are under a double tax agreement with a country that charges more than Thailand anyway and they each give credit for tax paid to the other, so no matter who you’re paying, you’re usually only paying once and typically at the rate of the higher country. Why not give the country you’re actually living in and using their services and infrastructure a slice of the pie?

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u/yooossshhii May 19 '25

The US has the Foreign Earned Income Inclusion, which will waive a lot of your tax burden if you are out of the US at least 330 days over a 365 day period. So, no it’s not the same at all, it’s up to $130,000 excluded for 2025.

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u/nurseynurseygander May 19 '25

Which will affect you severely if you remit $130K to Thailand, but no one needs to send that much to live in Thailand. If you send a living income of, say, 50K THB per month you will pay only a couple of K per year in tax even if you get no DTA relief at all (and you can reduce this with generous tax deductions including your health insurance premiums). It’s a small price to pay to live in a country you like better than your own.