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At least no one in the article mentioned the ww taxation again.

Article in PM stating that TH could ease ease taxation on remitted income ... As usual do not shoot the messenger 🙂

No character is black and white... you said it yourself. Picking out one trump potential! action does not make a whole person bad. Maybe watching too much ÖRR aka Rotfunk? Cannot argue much for Putin agreed, but russians here would remark he made his country strong which I strongly disagree with. Trump was reducing medication cost and lowering corporate as well as income taxes.

BTW your statement Putin is bad, Trump is bad is as black and white as it gets 😉

It is simply not enough that most of them are peaceful people (which is true BTW thanks for pointing it out!). All the people Europe lets in should be peaceful AND have sufficient qualification to pay for themself. After all most of us live in Thailand and have to prove that they can maintain themself and help the thai economy. Why is that so difficult to see for most Europeans that is perfect normal in the rest of the world? Whenever I apply for a thai visa I have to deliver tons of paperwork.

There has been no official promulagation if credit card expenditure is taxable or not. So how can a level 1 support answer a question when the higher echelons have not made up their minds? Maybe the TRD helpline can help in filing in the paperwork I agree but not on how to calculate the p&l of an SP500 future or if cc spending is taxable.

The Thai RD Help line will be utter useless in our special situation like the german helpline is useless for me here in Germany with any out of the ordinary circumstances.

The easiest way IMHO is still to receive gifts from relatives or friends abroad. You could also arrange for a loan you gave someone without interest and he is paying you back month by month. I have no clue how Thai IRS will handle several investments on top of each other over 10 years, my first guess would be they do not care and just look at the last investment. Over 10 years also to be super safe the last year you spend only 180 days in TH and realise all your profits and that year. All your income is then tax free.. or at least should be according to the current laws which of course could change any year.

I had to explain to the guy in the german idl department that TH switched to the Vienna convention around 2020 cause he wanted to give me the Paris convention IDL which is not valid after 2020, make sure everyone that you get the Vienna convention IDL from 1968 for Thailand. Technically they could consider it as driving without dl and then you are in some deep s... when it come to insurance claims.

How much would the help of an agent be to get a thai driving licence and is the licence "legit"? Thanks!

The 1968 IDL version is needed in TH and this should be valid three years imho. I have mine from GER and it is 3 years valid. TH changed to the 1968 version of IDL around 2021.

How long is the IDL valid? Three years I assume. Thanks!

Thanks! Should be possible to sell and rebuy the bond before the 5 year period IMHO 😉 Nevertheless cumbersome and expensive spread + other costs etc. I would only recommed to buy the bonds with a non thai bank outside of TH but this is just me remembering the malaysia capital controls end of the 90s.

There is no statement from META. as META is not paying me anything directly. It is the buyer of my stocks that is paying the bank and then the bank pays me (clearinghouse in between as another layer). The same goes for dividends they are paid by the bank to me and the bank receives the dividend from META (clearinghouse again in between). There is no direct link between me and META and no META documents.

Usually you need to prove that you live outside of the country you are leaving to get the tax refund. I assume your thai wife was living in Thailand? I assume that in a year when you have lived under 180 days in TH you (the farang) could get the tax refund.

Bank statement clearly details bought META for 100K USD in 2023 and sold it for 400K USD in 2025 so the info is there. There is no cap gains statement from the IRS in Germany as everything is dealt on the bank level. Anyway my german IRS statement comes 2 to 3 years after I realized cap gains in a foreign account however but that would be too late. I understand that bank statemends are a kind of grey area as well for BOIs acceptance. If I live in Thailand on an extension of stay or OA visa there will be no IRS statement as well.

Thanks for your post! Could you kindly elaborate some details of your investment in Th government bonds? Is a foreign bank acceptable as correspondent bank? What is the yield of the bonds, is it ok to buy 1 year bond? Thanks!

Thanks for your post! It was my understanding that so far realized cap gains were a kind of grey area if acceptable as income. Glad that now this is clarified. I am hoping that they accept bank statements of the realized gain. It states cap gains must be in the same year as the application so that would make the bank statement the only possible documentation as usually the income tax declaration is in another year.

Ouch I would not invest 500K USD in Thailand... just my 2 cents as a guy with no ties to any country.

Is that common in Thailand? Thx

Thanks for your reply! For the WGC the website also still states 80K USD yearly income for 2 years. On the WP category it now explicitly states 80K realised cap gains/dividends etc is acceptable which is great.

Thanks for this great information! This info is however not (yet) reflected on the website. So what would be the new requirement, 1M USD for wealthy pensioner? https://ltr.boi.go.th/ I was hoping for the 80K nonsense to be cut a long time ago. 1 M USD should be sufficient to cover all expenses for 5 years in Thailand 😉. They just demand 800K per year for the extension of stay so 1M USD should be enough. Thanks again!

Only some people care about this nonsense. If a black guy tells me "white Men Can't Jump" so what? Besides he is right most of the times 🙂 The only problem is when you tell someone there is not any white man that can jump, that is simply factual wrong. Like when I see a 7 foot man I assume that it is likely he plays ball. Same when I see a bodybuilder likely he is not an m.d. it is simple probabilities. Vice versa it works even more a thin guy is not a body builder and only very few m.d. are Body Builders. So chill

Fully agree it is a disgrace for Australia to have such high electricity prices as AUS is full of natural resources where Germany has close to none. Supply fees also exist here plus a ton of taxes and other nonsense added to your bill. Average like 15USD -30USD per household monthly fee just to be connected to the grid.

There are contracts here in Germany were you have to pay over 60 US Cents per KwH in a fixed contract. Pretty sure AUS cannot "beat" that. The lowest you can get is around 31 US cents.