Shipping personnel items to Thailand

Does Marrying a Thai national entitle you to ship one time personnel items without paying the VAT Tax ?
-@mm9mike9

No, it doesn't.

@Leeds forever!

I second that.

If you put the value less than 1500 bahtr there will not be any customs vat

If you put the value less than 1500 bahtr there will not be any customs vat
-@Kongshoej

Personnel belongings for less than ฿1.500? In what world? 

Your wife, not you, if living abroad more than a year and coming back to Thailand can bring tax free stuff. You can, but if you will get a work permit.check www.customs.go.th

Your wife, not you, if living abroad more than a year and coming back to Thailand can bring tax free stuff. You can, but if you will get a work permit.
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-@ThaiLawOnline

That's not correct. It's been many years since you could send personal belongings tax free even with a work permit.

@Kongshoej Yes,but it will still be scanned and be subject to import tax.

@Leeds forever! We just did it. I have a spouse visa. We moved to Florida in the beginning of the Covid,  didn't like it, and then just moved back this March, a few months short of three years. We mailed 4 large moving boxes (3 1/2 my wife's stuff and 1/2 my stuff, but whoever's stuff was not identified), plus my 61-key keyboard with stand for which I made my own custom box. We mailed through the US Postal Service.

I used MS Word to make a table formatted inventory of every single item in the box, and numbered the boxes. Each box had a copy of this list atop the stuff inside, as well as a page with a paragraph she wrote in Thai about being a "return" citizen. You have to be gone ONE YEAR or more, that's all it is.

I also gave a copy of the inventory for each box to the PO, thinking they would attach it to the outside of the box with whatever the form was one fills out about contents and value. They did not. They typed the entire list and values into their system to generate whatever they needed. There was a long line and the guy was a two-finger typist.

I expected the worst, as my wife gave me horror stories of mailed/shipped stuff taking months (customs opening boxes and charging for that which they thought was new, etc., so I took new stuff out of wrappers and boxes and packed in with everything else. I cook and had many boning knives, 10" scissors and even a very heavy hand hoe for gardening.

i was shocked. We shipped in two different mailings. The stuff not only got to our condo in Bangkok unscathed, but we were not charged a single baht on this side and nothing took longer than only seven days.... from Florida! No box showed evidence of even being opened. I wish you all as successful an experience.

@Leeds forever! See my complete description of what we did this year. We paid nothing at all but the shipping postage in the USA post office.

@Leeds forever! We just did it. I have a spouse visa. We moved to Florida in the beginning of the Covid, didn't like it, and then just moved back this March, a few months short of three years. We mailed 4 large moving boxes (3 1/2 my wife's stuff and 1/2 my stuff, but whoever's stuff was not identified), plus my 61-key keyboard with stand for which I made my own custom box. We mailed through the US Postal Service.
I used MS Word to make a table formatted inventory of every single item in the box, and numbered the boxes. Each box had a copy of this list atop the stuff inside, as well as a page with a paragraph she wrote in Thai about being a "return" citizen. You have to be gone ONE YEAR or more, that's all it is.

I also gave a copy of the inventory for each box to the PO, thinking they would attach it to the outside of the box with whatever the form was one fills out about contents and value. They did not. They typed the entire list and values into their system to generate whatever they needed. There was a long line and the guy was a two-finger typist.

I expected the worst, as my wife gave me horror stories of mailed/shipped stuff taking months (customs opening boxes and charging for that which they thought was new, etc., so I took new stuff out of wrappers and boxes and packed in with everything else. I cook and had many boning knives, 10" scissors and even a very heavy hand hoe for gardening.

i was shocked. We shipped in two different mailings. The stuff not only got to our condo in Bangkok unscathed, but we were not charged a single baht on this side and nothing took longer than only seven days.... from Florida! No box showed evidence of even being opened. I wish you all as successful an experience.
-@Daniel Berman5

Your wife is the returning citizen,not you.

For me it was about 2-1/2 years ago. I moved some heavy machines including a 4500 pound CNC mill, lathe, about 1000 lbs of raw material, all of my woodworking equipment + some household items in a 40 foot container. I used International Sea & Air Shipping in the US. They attached the lists to the boxes and equipment as Leeds did. They worked with a company called Freight Links in Thailand. Freight Links worked with the customs officials to get everything through customs. The customs officials did open the container and assigned values to everything in there. For me the whole experience was painless and the customs charges were a fraction of what I thought they would be. The BOM as filled out by the movers listed everything as used and the customs officials accepted that.

For me it was about 2-1/2 years ago. I moved some heavy machines including a 4500 pound CNC mill, lathe, about 1000 lbs of raw material, all of my woodworking equipment + some household items in a 40 foot container. I used International Sea & Air Shipping in the US. They attached the lists to the boxes and equipment as Leeds did. They worked with a company called Freight Links in Thailand. Freight Links worked with the customs officials to get everything through customs. The customs officials did open the container and assigned values to everything in there. For me the whole experience was painless and the customs charges were a fraction of what I thought they would be. The BOM as filled out by the movers listed everything as used and the customs officials accepted that.
-@rzugnoni

What you're describing is the correct way to do it and you did pay the cost customs charged you. Officially a foreigner can't ship personal belongings taxfree/vatfree even when married to a thai or having a work permit. Customs stopped those benefits many years ago. A returning Thai national is another story.

My wife was a returning Thai national. However, she had moved back to work on our house and ended up being in Thailand for a little over a year before anything was shipped. I don't remember the exact requirements but I believe that disqualified her. Also just the idea of "saying" that all of the equipment belonged to her would have looked suspicious and probably would not have been accepted.