Thailand Government Fees 2026: Official Rates for Companies, Visas, Work Permits and Property.

How to use this reference

Thailand government fees are the amounts a Thai government office charges you directly: to register a company, issue a work permit, extend a visa, transfer a property or register a trademark. This page collects the ones people ask about most, in one place, with the official page each figure comes from. It does not include what a lawyer, accountant or agent charges for doing the work, because no government office publishes that.

Every table names its source and the month the figure was last checked. If the source page and this page ever disagree, the source page is right and this page is due a refresh.

Thailand government fees at a glance

Checked September 2026. The sections below give the full schedules and the pages that publish them.

Company registration and business licences

The Department of Business Development (DBD) publishes its registration fees through the government's central service catalogue. The figures below are for a private limited company.

Source: Department of Business Development, company registration procedure on info.go.th. Checked September 2026.

Two licences that come up for foreign-run businesses have their own published schedules. A hotel licence costs 10,000 baht for a type 1 hotel, 20,000 baht for type 2, 30,000 baht for type 3 and 40,000 baht for type 4, plus an annual business fee of 40 baht per room. A factory licence is priced by machine power, from 1,000 baht where there is no machinery to 145,000 baht at the top of the published schedule.

Sources: Department of Provincial Administration, hotel licence service guide and factory licence procedure on info.go.th. Checked September 2026.

The registration fee is the smallest part of setting up. Capital rules, shareholding limits and the licences a particular activity needs are covered in our company registration in Thailand service page, and a corporate lawyer in Thailand can check which of them apply to your plan.

Work permit fees

The Department of Employment (DOE) charges a filing fee and then a permit fee that scales with the permit's length. Renewals are charged at the same rates.

Source: Department of Employment, work permit application procedure on info.go.th. Checked September 2026.

The permit sits on top of a Non-Immigrant B visa, which has its own fee in the immigration table below. How the application works, and the e-WorkPermit route that replaced most counter visits, is in our guide to the digital work permit in Thailand. The employer-side rules, including the capital and Thai-staff ratios, are on the work permit in Thailand service page.

Visa, extension and immigration fees

The Immigration Bureau publishes one fee schedule for its Bangkok division, and provincial offices publish the same figures. Consular visa fees are collected by the embassy or consulate that issues the visa and are listed in baht on the same page.

Sources: Immigration Division 1, fee schedule, Immigration Division 1, 90-day report, Samut Prakan Immigration, fees and Samut Prakan Immigration, overstay warning. Checked September 2026.

Two long-stay routes carry fees outside that schedule. The Long-Term Resident (LTR) visa costs 50,000 baht per person for the 10-year visa when it is issued in Thailand, and the Board of Investment charges nothing for the qualification endorsement that comes first. The Destination Thailand Visa (DTV) fee is set by each Thai post in its own currency: the Royal Thai Embassy in Washington charges 400 US dollars.

Sources: BOI, LTR visa issuance and Royal Thai Embassy Washington, DTV. Checked September 2026.

Which of these routes fits which situation is a longer question. Our guide to long-term visa options in Thailand compares them, and the filing that trips most people up has its own guide: the 90-day report in Thailand. For a case with any complication, an immigration lawyer in Thailand can check the category before you pay a fee you cannot recover.

Permanent residence fees

The application fee is paid on filing and is not refunded if the application fails. The residence certificate fee is paid only on approval, and it depends on the category.

Source: the Samut Prakan Immigration fee schedule linked in the immigration section above. Checked September 2026.

What comes after approval, including the residence certificate, the alien registration book and the house registration entry, is explained in our guide to the pink ID card and house registration in Thailand.

Land Office fees on a property transfer

The Department of Lands publishes the registration fees and the taxes it collects at the counter when ownership changes hands. They apply to land, houses and condominium units alike.

Source: Department of Lands, fees, taxes and duties. Checked September 2026.

The rates are only half the picture. How the individual seller's withholding tax is calculated, and who customarily pays which line, is worked through in our guide to property transfer fees in Thailand.

Trademark fees

The Trademark Act sets the Department of Intellectual Property's fees in its fee schedule. Fees are charged per item of goods or services within a class, with a flat rate once an application covers more than 5 items in the class.

Source: Trademark Act, fee schedule, as published by WIPO Lex. Checked September 2026.

The application and registration fees are paid at different stages, so a mark that is refused costs the application fee only. Search, classification and opposition work are where a trademark lawyer in Thailand earns the fee.

Tax registration thresholds and filing deadlines

These are not fees, but they are the government figures that decide whether a penalty applies. All three come from the Revenue Department's English guidance.

Sources: Revenue Department, value added tax, Revenue Department, corporate income tax and Revenue Department, personal income tax. Checked September 2026.

The full annual sequence for a company, from the audit to the shareholder list, is in our Thailand company compliance calendar. For individuals, the forms and the online extension are in our guide to filing a tax return in Thailand.

What these figures do not include

Three things are missing from every table above, on purpose.

Professional fees. No government office publishes what a lawyer, accountant or agent charges, so those figures do not belong on a page about official rates.

Figures we could not verify on an official page. Court filing fees, document legalisation at the Department of Consular Affairs and consular visa fees at posts other than Washington are all real costs, but the pages that state them either do not publish a usable schedule or state it only in a form we could not check. They will be added when they can be sourced.

Anything that depends on your case. Withholding tax for an individual seller, the exact work permit period an employer applies for, and which hotel licence type a building needs all turn on facts a professional has to look at. This page tells you the rate card. It cannot tell you which line you are on.