I thought it relates to the attached tax rules issued by the Commission of Taxation of Revenue Department since 20 years ago in relation to when the employer provided share to the employee with free of charge or gave the right to the employee to purchase share at the price lower than market will be assessable income of employee when the ownership of such shares have been transferred to the employee already. This is bas on rule of cash basic for personal income tax i.e. received money or goods or services according to Section 41 of Thai Revenue Code.
To compare with B, in case of Exchange Model, our views are similar to the above rule that the employee will subject to income tax when he/she received good or service already. So the point does not treats as the cash but just give the right to the employee to exchange the good or services later.
But in case of Advance Received Model, we viewed that the point treats as the cash ( likely gift voucher or gift cheque ) since the customer has to pay cash to B to purchase the point. Therefore, when the point was gave to the employee means the employee received the thing to use as the cash to purchase goods or services which can say that the ownership of cash i.e. the point has been transferred to the employee
しかしながら、Advance Received Modelの場合、そのポイントを購入するためにBに現金を支払わなければならないため、そのポイントは(ギフト券や贈答用小切手のような)現金として扱われる。したがって従業員にポイントが付与されたということは、従業員がそれを現金として物品やサービスを購入するために使用されるので、現金を所有していると言うことがいえる。例えば、ポイントが既に従業員に移行される
しかし、事前受領モデルの件に関しては、顧客がBにポイントを購入するために支払をしなければなりませんので、ポイントは現金として扱われる(ギフト クーポンやギフト チェックにような物)と言うのが当社の見解でした。それなので、ポイントを従業員に与えることは、従業員が物資、或いは、サービスを購入するために現金として使える何かを受領した事を意味し、現金(例:ポイント)の所有者が従業員に移管されたと見なされます。
Let me brief you the background of this Rule as following.
1. At that time when the employer gave the employee the right to purchase company shared at price lower than market ( stock option). So whether or not such right will be subject to income tax for such employee?
2. The RD advised via the attachment that the right is not assessable income of employee until he/she already used the right to purchase shares that means when the ownership of share has been transferred to such employee already.