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Not really. From the beginning I was prepared for that the man – or the masculine part, if it's a more rainbow colored relationship – is the provider; just like it once also was in many, if not all, of our Western home countries. So, I looked at realtionship with a Thai as kind of mutual win-win "business arangement": I provide, and in return she – for me it's a she – takes care of me in return. With an age difference – I prefers younger women – it might be more like: I take care of you now, and you takes care of me, when I get old. Only "aber dabei" for me seems to be that my lovely girlfriend, who has managed to stay together with this grumpy old man for 22 years – begins to say that she might get old before me...

Life is too short to get annoyed about dual price – in my biew it's only fair that the nation's population can get in cheap or free, while we foreiogners pays – recalculate to your own Western home country's money, often you wouldn't care about the equivalent to a few hundred baht in foreigner's entrance fee...

I prefers a (non stop) night flight, leaving BKK some time around midnight, preferably THAI. Get a meal meal, perhaps watch a film/perhaps not, sleeps – I bring an inflatable neck suppurt pillow – being waked up for breakfast and lands on destination early morning...👍 On return – i.e., Europe to BKK – I'll take an afternoon flight and same procedure, apart from I normally can keep awake during the whole film...😄

You only quoted half, you forgot this part: "Others have mentioned that it depends on the DTA. For example, if a retirement pension can only be taxed in one's home country, you shall not file a tax return, if you have no other taxable income; they are referring to the detailed regulations/law. I cannot say which is the right way to do it." Surat Thani Province, Samui Branch – your DTA might give you special tax-benefits.

Info from PEA: 📣Due to the regional electrification of Koh Samui branch🏝️ ❌There is a need to temporarily ban electricity❌ 💡To improve the sales system ❌⚡️ 🗓️On 25 March 2569 เวลาTime 08.30 AM - 17.00 p.m. 📍 Area of Samui 2 station, river-in front of Phra Lan (sea side) 📍Areas affected by power outage. Follow the link. https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit... 🚨🚨Steam. If the work is completed before the schedule, I will pay for the electricity current first. So please don't operate on high voltage transmitter. 🚨🚨 🚗🚗Cooperation, car users. Please avoid parking near the work area for faster and safe operation 🚗🚗 🙏🙏 Sorry for any inconvenient matter 🙏🙏 📣เนื่องด้วยการไฟฟ้าส่วนภูมิภาคสาขาเกาะสมุย🏝️ ❌มีความจำเป็นต้องงดจ่ายกระแสไฟฟ้าชั่วคราว❌ 💡เพื่อปรับปรุงระบบจำหน่าย ❌⚡️ 🗓️วันที่ 25 มีนาคม 2569 🕘เวลา 08.30 น. - 17.00 น. 📍 บริเวณ สถานีสมุย2 แม่น้ำ-หน้าพระลาน (ฝั่งทะเล) 📍พื้นที่ได้รับผลกระทบจากการงดจ่ายไฟ ตามลิงก์ https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit... 🚨🚨อนึ่ง หากการปฏิบัติงานแล้วเสร็จก่อนกำหนด ก็จะจ่ายกระแสไฟฟ้าให้ก่อน จึงขออย่าได้ปฏิบัติงานเกี่ยวกับสายส่งไฟฟ้าแรงสูงเป็นอันขาด 🚨🚨 🚗🚗ขอความร่วมมือผู้ใช้รถ โปรดหลีกเลี่ยงการจอดรถบริเวณ พื้นที่ปฏิบัติงานเพื่อการปฏิบัติงานได้อย่างสะดวกรวดเร็วและปลอดภัย🚗🚗 🙏🙏 ขออภัยในความไม่สะดวก🙏🙏

Yes, for 2024 income year, in late 2025. The will audit your P.N.D.90 and compare the reported foreign income with bank statements for a full tax year and all foreign transfers. Furthermore the tax office wish to see prof of income and taxed paid in one's home country (if any paid), and they do check it carefully and calculate with exchange rates to Thai baht. I've been filing tax return for several years. I've also for several years used a small spread sheet (MS Excel) where I have a line for each transfer, separated in columns with source of fund in local currency and same received in Thai currency. My income is withheld taxed retirement pension; withheld taxed dividends from stocks, untaxed income from fees or capital gain; untaxed interest from bonds; and finally savings from before 2024, which are tax free to transfer into Thailand. Easy and simple to make, great help when you need to both file your tax return and for example explain the foreign transfers... The director of my local revenue office says that all foreigners staying for more than 180 days in a tax year shall file a tax return. The can deduct foreign paid taxes in accordance with a DTA between Thailand and their home country, or country from where the funds are earned. Others have mentioned that it depends on the DTA. For example, if a retirement pension can only be taxed in one's home country, you shall not file a tax return, if you have no other taxable income; they are referring to the detailed regulations/law. I cannot say which is the right way to do it. The Danish DTA says for example that retirement income is taxable in both states; while the Danish tax office insists on taxing retirement income as country of source (I've asked the directly and got a written answer). Dividends are taxable in Denmark, but you can get part of the tax refunded – down to 15% – if being tax resident abroad and can prove that. I have some US stocks, and it's the same; after I moved to Thailand, US only withhold 15% dividend tax. Savings from before 1st January 2024 need not to be filed in a tax return. I've made a list of my savings as per year end 2023 and kept documentation for it; so I can prove any savings I transfer, if questioned. They however didn't question my savings transferred when checking the 2024-tax year and my transfers. For the 2025 eFiling online tax return, you need to register your total foreign income (in Thai baht), eventual paid taxes abroad, and the amount of foreign income transferred into Thailand. My little spread sheet became very useful here, as I could take the year's total amount of each source, and the similar amount received in Thai baht, and calculate the exchange rate, which I needed for the total earnings and withheld taxes. The 2025-eFiling is fairly easy to use and any registered foreign taxes are deducted for said amount's due Thai income tax. Your 10% expenses deduction of maximum 100,000 baht; your personal allowance of 60,000 baht; and eventual retirement deduction if over 65 year's old are also deducted...

Samui: Only the first day people were hoarding fuel, since then "no problems", fuel enough and no queue-lines. Don't panic, the government says there is enough for about 3 months, and they begin to fins supplies from other sources than the Middle East.

Fairly easy for me. The password not allowed copy/paste thing is a protection for misuse. I write my password in my password file first – then it's visible for me at all time, using the requested capital letter, number and special sign – and then rewrite it in whatever system I'm creating an account with. I use Google-Chrome for eFiling and set first page to translate to English; all following pages then appeared in English language. Only thing not working as English is the roll down menues. Not that big a problem: I roll it down, take a screen print of the Thai text in the menu only and paste it in Google image-translate – vupti, I get the roll down menu in whatever language I've chose...

Sometimes it can be difficult to obtain an usufruct on a property that is mainly a house as home – usufruct is ment as a right to harvets the fruits on the land – nother similar, but rarely mentioned option, is a "habitation right": «The grantee of the right of habitation does not pay rent to the grantor. If there is rental payment made, the matter becomes a tenancy. A right of habitation may be created for either a specific period of time or for the lifetime of the grantee. In case the rights are granted for a specific time period, the law states that such a period may not exceed 30 years; if a longer period is fixed, it shall be enforceable for only 30 years. The grant may be renewed for a period not exceeding 30 years from the time of renewal. Lastly, the right of habitation is not transferable by way of inheritance.» Read more here: https://www.samuiforsale.com/real-rights/habitation-property-rights.html

Not "absent mindedly", but might rather be polite sharing with someone – I presume you never been kindly offered a sniff from someone else's inhaler...

It does, more often than during daytime where I live – can I from OP conclude that PEA workers sleep at day in my area...

Yes, easier paperwork and immikgration control. If you keep the 800k baht in a fixed account – for example 12-months – you get best bank interest, which you can withdraw once a year, so you always have a clean 800k baht balance. Interest rate can be around 1.5% p.a. minus 15% withheld tax. I've been using retirement extension for m18 years. I've been writing off my 800k baht as price for my prolonged stay in Land-of-Smiles, and deposit the paid interest in a separate "rainy day account", so I have extra access to fund, should something unexpected happen. In time the funds can – with help from interest's interest – grow to an useable amount for unforseen iuncidents.

March 14th, Saturday, Lamai Beach: Carabao concert... MUSIC ON THE BEACH 4 charity concert Lamai Beach, Phor Ta Suk Pavilion. 14 March 2026 Tickets at the door cost 300 baht.

Probably...

I presume you talk about the West. In Thailand a woman's mind is more like: "If a man cannot provide, why do I need him?" And yes, Ido hear Thai ladies say that. So, it also was in old time in the West – and in some cases it still is. It seems like a Western man's saying today should be: "If a woman cannot help financially to provide to the household, and our children has grown up, why do I need her?" A number of men moves to Thailand – some after divorcing a Western spouse, who might even have got half of the estate before she left – and find a local lady, get her to stop working and move in, and then provides for her. In both cases, isn't it a question of care and shared compagnenship? Isn't a marriage based on more than two incomes to provide for a family? Shouldn't it rather taking care of each other? And when a man ends up in Thailand – often with a bit young, or very younger, spouse or girlfriend – isn't that based on mutually care, which could be an agreement like: I take care of you financially now, and when I get old, then you takes care of me. In the old-time way of thinking a marriage was a kind of mutual protection – the man as provider, the wife as caretaker of children, when small, and home – which could be viewed as a financial agreement. In my home country they talked about "marriage of convenience" – and if a man is a good provider, then love follows – seems like it still is like that in Thailand. In a way I also understand well, why more nad more prople wish to be singles – it works fine in Western countries where there is a poublich health care and ditto for old people – but when a Western man (or woman) is migrating to Thailand, where you are on your own, you mighht however need a live-in younger partner to take care of you; even if you have to pay for it. Some can however manage it with a housekeeper, and keep their freedom – which might even be cheaper than having a spouse...