Specialist focus — Thailand
Work permits, withholding tax, music and IP licensing, equipment customs, alcohol licensing, curfew compliance, contracts, entity structure. Reviewed by Thai-bar admitted counsel. Reply within 24 hours.
Three risks that move dates
15% withholding tax on foreign performer fees, surfaced too late, eats the offer math.
Treaty-relief structuring built into the term sheet.
Modelled gross-up vs. net-of-WHT scenarios at offer stage. Tax certificate filed with the Revenue Department on settlement; treaty-relief documentation delivered to the artist's home filing.
Curfew or noise variance refused on day-of because the police precinct never received the filing.
Variance pre-filed in writing, in advance, signed.
BMA standard curfew is 24:00; entertainment-zone extensions and outdoor variances are pre-filed at the precinct that covers your venue. Documented before tickets go on sale.
Equipment freight stuck in customs because no broker was booked before it shipped.
Carnet pre-clearance, broker booked at advance.
ATA Carnet or temporary import. Manifest pre-cleared with our Thai broker, inspection slot scheduled, duty bonded if needed. We do not let freight ship without clearance booked.
Ten things we close
Non-immigrant B visa filings; performer-by-performer permit tracking; festival-roster batches.
15% headline, treaty-relief modelling, registration, filing, remittance, treaty-relief documentation.
MCT (music copyright), RAP, AMP — coordination for performance rights and master licensing.
ATA Carnet alternatives, temporary import, bonded warehouse routing, duty deposits.
Event license filing with district office, BMA-zoning sign-off, special-permission routes for palace and royal-grounds sites.
Venue-license verification, regulated-hour mapping, separate permitting for non-licensed-venue events.
Standard 24:00 default, entertainment-zone extensions, outdoor and stadium one-off variances filed in advance.
Drafting and review for artist performance contracts, vendor agreements, sponsor contracts, NDAs.
Thai Co. Ltd. setup, BOI promotion strategy, Foreign Business Act exemptions, nominee-structure guidance.
Audited settlement, WHT remittance, treaty-relief docs to artist's home filing, lessons-learned.
How we run the legal layer
Artist, venue, date window, scope. We reply within 24 hours with the legal lift required and the lead time it implies.
WHT modelling, performer-permit count, music-licensing path, customs route — all locked into the offer.
Permits, music licensing, event license, customs broker booked, alcohol verification.
Curfew variance signed by precinct (if needed). Final venue and BMA sign-offs collected.
Permits and licensing in folder at FOH. Police, fire and BMA contact list with PIC.
WHT remitted to Revenue Department. Treaty-relief tax certificate delivered to artist's home counsel.
Where we have run this stack
Honest answers
Brief your show
Tell us the artist, the date and the venue. We come back with the legal lift required, the lead time, and what to file when.
Brief your show →Reviewed by Thai-bar admitted counsel · 150+ events · 0 license-related cancellations