Clients facing a filing deadline should prepare exact passport spelling, current email and mobile details, identity verification and the required signing method before submission. The announcement states no general paper-filing exception.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Registered office: the address evidence rule<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Central Partnership and Company Registration Office Order No. 4\/2568 has applied since 1 January 2026. For an incorporation or change of head-office address, the registrar checks the house code, house number and location details against civil-registration records. Where five or more partnerships or companies are already registered at the same premises, the applicant must also supply written consent from the person entitled to allow use of the premises and copies of the evidence establishing that right. This is an additional evidence requirement, not a prohibition on virtual offices or a maximum of five companies per address.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Before paying for a registered-office package, ask the provider how many entities already use the premises and whether the required consent and supporting documents will be supplied. DBD registration does not, by itself, confirm suitability for VAT registration, a work permit or a sector licence. Read the official Order No. 4\/2568<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Employee Welfare Fund: five steps to prepare payroll<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Before the January 2027 payroll, companies employing ten or more staff should establish which employees fall within the Employee Welfare Fund and which have a qualifying provident-fund or other statutory exemption. Contributions start on 1 January 2027<\/strong>, initially at 0.25% of wages from the employee and 0.25% from the employer<\/strong>. The ordinary remittance deadline is the 15th of the following month. See the commencement decree<\/a> and the coverage and payroll guidance in our Thai labour-law guide<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Update, 2 November 2026: collection is postponed to 1 January 2027. The Royal Decree on the start of collection B.E. 2569<\/a>, published in the Royal Gazette on 22 October 2026 (vol. 143, part 65 Kor), repeals the B.E. 2568 decree, and its section 4 starts collection on 1 January 2027. No first remittance falls due on 15 November 2026. January 2027 is the first month, so the first remittance falls due by 15 February 2027. The Cabinet also accepted in principle a draft that would apply the 0.25% rates to 31 December 2031 and the 0.50% rates from 1 January 2032. We have not yet read that regulation in the Gazette, so check it before relying on those two dates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Starting a business in Thailand can be an exciting chance. However, the registration process needs careful attention to legal rules and steps. It is important to know the right steps and possible problems. This helps your company start well and avoid costly delays or legal issues during the company registration process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n LAWYER-DRAFTED TEMPLATE \u00b7 \u0e3f890<\/p>\n Deliverable-based payments, acceptance and rework procedure, IP assignment, 3% withholding handled, and the contractor-versus-employee test explained so nobody claims severance<\/a> later. Word + PDF, updated August 2026. \u0e2a\u0e31\u0e0d\u0e0d\u0e32\u0e08\u0e49\u0e32\u0e07\u0e17\u0e33\u0e02\u0e2d\u0e07 \u0e09\u0e1a\u0e31\u0e1a\u0e2a\u0e2d\u0e07\u0e20\u0e32\u0e29\u0e32<\/p>\n Get the template<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Registration is one step in the wider process covered in our guide to setting up a business in Thailand<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last reviewed: 30 August 2026.<\/strong> Sections 1096, 1097, 1098, 1105, 1107, 1108, 1110, 1111, 1111\/1 and 1112 of the Civil and Commercial Code<\/a> were each read against the Thai text in our own annotated Code. Sections 14 and 36 of the Foreign Business Act B.E. 2542 were read in the Thai original, and sections 94, 96, 97 and 98 of the Land Code<\/a> in the Council of State text. Supreme Court<\/a> Decisions 6412\/2560, 1038\/2538 and 2252\/2560 were each read in full in Thai. The government fees are those in the Department of Business Development\u2019s current registration guide, and the Thai shareholder<\/a> evidence requirements were read from the primary text of Central Registrar Order 2\/2569. The tax deadlines in Step 5 were not re-verified against the Revenue Code in this review, so confirm them with the Revenue Department when you file. Re-read on 5 October 2026: Step 5 no longer tells a new company to apply separately for a tax ID (its DBD registration number is its tax number); the seven-day item in the deadline list now runs before the statutory meeting, as section 1107 says; two FAQs (the order of the steps, and the Foreign Business Act licence a representative office needs) were corrected; Dika 159\/2566 and 17923\/2557 were read in the corpus and match what the page says of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\nPayroll deadline: Employee Welfare Fund<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Service \/ Contractor Agreement (Bilingual English & Thai)<\/h3>\n
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