Tax Structure - Representative Office - Thailand , Bangkok and Phuket

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Tax Structure for Representative Office in Thailand

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For Representative Office in Thailand, we have summarized the information and detailed explanations related to Rep Office business:

 1.   Tax Structure Summary:

 Detailed explanations consisted of:

Direct Tax

Yearly Corporate Income Tax (PND.50)
This tax must be submitted to the Revenue Department within 150 days after the fiscal year has ended along with the audited financial statements. Case of ending period is December, the deadline for CIT in Thailand is around end of May.

Registered Representative Office in Thailand carry on to support their Head Office’s business in Thailand without any support or service to other business entity when the fund was transferred by Head Office to support the expenditure of the Representative Office in Thailand;  this fund is un-taxable income under Corporate Income Tax purpose and no VAT for that fund also.  Anyway Representative Office is responsible for filing Corporate Income Tax Return within 150 days from the last day of ending of accounting period despite no income during the period.

In case Representative Office derives income or without incomr from support/serve to other business entity, Representative Office is subject to Corporate Income Tax on their worldwide income and must be registered as a business legal entity under Thai or Foreign law within 30 days from the operating date. Generally, the rate of corporate income tax for juristic company include Representative Office as well are imposed on net profit follow rate below;

Corporate income tax (CIT), imposed base on “net profit” below is tax rate for year 2008(2009 may be change);

Half Year Corporate Income Tax (PND.51)
This is the company’s corporate tax for 6 months (half year) of the fiscal year which must be filed to the Revenue Department within 2 months after the half year. (e.g. if the fiscal year of the company is ended on December, half year is June that means PND.51 must be submitted within August)

Personal Income Tax
Income tax is calculated as Progressive Tax Rates of
TAXABLE INCOME = Assessable Income - deductions – allowances
The income tax rate applicable to taxable income are as follows.

PND.91 Form, Taxpayer receiving income from employment during the period January to December, must pay personal income tax before the last day of March every year.
PND. 90 Form, Taxpayer receiving income from employment and the professions of law, medicine during the period January to December, must file and pay personal income tax before the last day of March every year.
PND.94 Form, is a half – year tax form of PND. 90, during the period January to June, must file a half-year return and pay personal income tax by September each year.

Indirect Tax

Withholding Tax
PND.1 Tax Form if the company had withheld the tax for salary of the staff.
PND.1 Kor. Tax Form if the company had withheld the tax for acquisition of salary of the staff.
PND.2 Tax Form if the company had withheld the tax for dividend, etc.
PND.3 and 53 Tax Form if the company had withheld the tax for services, rental, hiring, transportation, insurance, management fee, consulting, and etc (should to study withholding tax in Thailand).
PND.54 Tax Form if the company had withheld the tax from the company or juristic partnership incorporated under foreign laws and not carrying on business in Thailand but receiving assessable income from commission, fee of goodwill, dividend, share of profits or any other gain derived which is paid from or in Thailand.

Where the total of the payments due under a contract is less than Baht 1,000, the payments are not subject to withholding tax.

The following are the withholding tax rates on some important types of income:

• This W/H Tax must be submitted within 7 days of the following month otherwise, the company will have to pay for penalty and surcharge upon delayed submission.
• The person liable (Company’s financial officer) to withhold tax shall issue to the taxpayer, from whom tax is withheld, a withholding tax certificate in duplicate, each copy having the same contents, as follows:

- In the case of withheld tax from advertising fees and professional fees etc., the certificate shall be issued immediately every time tax is withheld.
- In the case of withheld tax from employment etc., the certificate shall be issued within the 15th day of February in the year following the tax year, or within one month from the date of the termination of employment during the tax year of the taxpayer from whom tax is withheld.

Value added tax remittance returns (PP.36)
Based on 7% for supplier providing services overseas and such services are used in Thailand and must be submitted within 7 days of the following month.

2. Submission of the financial statement to Ministry of Commerce (MOC)

Must submit the financial statement to MOC within 5 months from last date of ending of accounting period, so if the ending period is on December, must submit around May.

3. Social Security Fund (SSF)
The company with one or more employees is required to make contributions to the Social Security Fund (SSF). Contributions to the Social Security Fund are made by employees, employers and the Government in equal proportion. The present rate of contributions to be made by each party is five percent of the employees’ salaries, up to a maximum amount of Baht 750 per month(during June – December 2009 that rate reduce to be three percent and maximum amount is Baht 450). The company must be submitted to the Social Security Office within 29th day of the following month or earlier in case that the said date happened to be Saturday or Sunday.

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