have the green light from company re-early retirement at 55 total with house rental from scottish house 13.200 or if i take this new pension levelling option 15.600 (not sure if this is a good thing ) I think enough to live on as we have own house and car in bkk . What i do not know is it better to take hit via the Thai tax or GB tax anybody know the thai tax rates thanks big t

Hope this helps

http://www.thaiconsul-uk.com/pdfs/Gp%20%20Thai%20Tax%20Information.pdf

Let us know how what you find

Richard

Tom,
Is yours a personal pension?
As far as I am aware the double taxation agreement UK-TG
does not include an 'article' on non government pensions.
I retire to LOS in June . What tax you pay in Thailand is still a mystery to me!
Good luck
Jiap

As far as I can tell if your income originates from the UK then it is difficult to stop the UK taxman getting his hand on it

Andy, I may be a bit late as ive just read this one, but See my posting under Miscellaneous on tax re UK pensions.

Anyone hoping/intending to rely upon the current Double Taxation Agreement between the UK and Thailand needs to be aware that such agreement is currently being renegotiated and in due course a new agreement will supersede the current one.

The provisions of the new agreement? Who knows? We shall just have to wait and see.