Big myths when sending people to work in Thailand

Overview:

Mobile employees fill a critical business need. Organisations want to get talented employees onsite where needed, often at a moment’s notice. But, like many other aspects of business, cross-border employee mobility is undergoing incredible change. As a result, its implementation is becoming increasingly complex.

Seminar content/objective:

We’re organising a three-hour session highlighting four big myths when sending employees to work in Thailand; and, how to mitigate personal income tax and legal risks associated with employee mobility.

During the session we aim to cover the following issues:

• Principles of personal income tax
• Updates on the new Thai personal income tax and regulations and deductions for allowances
• Employer’s withholding tax obligations and its pitfalls
• Typical tax planning strategies and common pitfalls affecting your cross-border employee^s
• High level overview of the issues surrounding short-term assignments
• Thai personal income tax treatment on expat non-cash compensation (e.g. equity-based compensation) so that you can identify Thai tax obligations or create a cost-effective expat compensation package
• Work permit requirements and exemptions