According to the Myanmar embassy in Thailand, the monthly tax rates are 150 bahts for blue-collar Myanmar migrant workers and 822 bahts for white-collar ones.
Blue-collar workers include those who work in factories, mills, agriculture, livestock breeding, construction and general labour, and their salary for tax purposes is specified as 7500 bahts per month. Therefore, they are obliged to pay 150 bahts per month as 2% on this salary.
After paying taxes, they can enjoy white money in Myanmar kyats, equivalent to 7500 bahts a month, for which they can enjoy tax deductions in buying real estate, apartments and cars in Myanmar.
If white-collar workers, including those working as staffers in Thai companies, marine firms, hospitals and universities, construction engineers and factory engineers, have already paid taxes in Thailand, the amount paid will be deductible from this 2% tax payable.
For example, a migrant who earns a monthly salary of 90,000 bahts including 10,000 bahts subsidy is obliged to pay 1800 bahts, but if he/she has paid 978 bahts as the tax in Thailand, that worker is only liable to pay the remaining 822 bahts to Myanmar and he/she can enjoy white Myanmar kyats equivalent to 41,100 bahts per month.
White-collar taxpayers are instructed to bring pay slips or salary certificates from their respective companies as well as tax slips.
Upon payment, taxpayers will receive tax receipts with a QR Code, which they must keep so as not to lose or damage them, the embassy stated.
Blue collar workers can also pay their due taxes collectively through a factory official into a bank account after filling in the relevant forms provided by the embassy.
At present, each general worker has to pay 450 bahts for three months from October to December 2023 and later, they can pay taxes monthly, every three months, every six months or every nine months.
MT/ZN, Photo-Myanmar Embassy Bangkok
