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Of course he exists – I've even met him... – and my CCTV also snapped him, when delivering gifts for Xmas to my house here in Thailand...

If I was you, I would do it before 1st January, as we still don't know any details about how transfers eventual will be taxed from next year; I actually transferred savings for my next car this month of same reason. You can deposit the funds in a fixed account for best interest – for example 3 month or longer – if you are not going to use the money right away. Note that the banks guarantee is 1 million baht, so if you feel unsafe, you can split the savings over a number of banks. So-called Fund Books with low risk are also a possibility, I use that, as there is no binding period to obtain gain/interest.

To OP: How do foreigners begin as self employed in your country? The probably need a work permit. There is a new visa for distance workers available, which has already been mentioned in an above reply (I repeat link HERE), but the financial claims are quite high. You didn't mention your home country. Some countries allows a citizen living abroad to still have a domestic registered business, provided there is an address in the country, which could be registered in a friend's or a family member's address. Some countries also allow bank account actions or transfers without domestic taxation, when you stay less than 180 days in your home country and are tax resident abroad. As suggested above, do a bit of homework, so you know your options. You cannot legally as foreigner be self employed in Thailand. You can establish a partnership with your wife – when you get married to your girlfriend – and extend you stay based on marriage. You will be allowed to get a work permit, which can be in the partnership limited. There need to be two Thai employees for a foreign work permit, your wife could be one of them. When providing only customers abroad, there will be not v.a.t. and claim for v.a.t.-registration. Salary will be personal income taxed – it's low, compared to many foreign countries – a profit left in the partnership limited will be company taxed. You will need an external auditor for annual statement and tax report; there are several threads in the forum where you can find lots of additional information. Another possibility is to continue like a number of digital nomads do, keep your distance work under the radar, and officially live from savings from abroad. You need a foreign bank account for your business, and only transfer your need for personal spending into Thailand. It's not really legal, but nobody seems to care much at the moment about individual digital nomads and remote workers. Note, that you might be income taxed from 2024 of savings transferred from abroad.

OP however writes that his passport expires before his extension of stay: I have an extension stay till next year around june / july . however my passport will be expiring soon . I am travelling out of thailand and then coming back a month later with my new passport .

No, when you enters on a non-OA you'll need a 3 million baht health insurance for extension of stay. Choose a normal non-O for retirement instead, and extend your stay for 1 year, if you alreadu know that you are going to stay for a longer period in Thailand. The only benefit with a non-OA is that you can keep your funds abroad, instead of in a Thai bank deposit; but when applying for extension of stay you still need the funds in a Thai bank deposit, so your benefit from OA-visa has gone. Otherwise, as other posters recommend, leave Thailand and re-enter visa exempt and apply for a non-O domesticalley, or simple re-enter with a non-O visa; the latter you might still be able to get issued in a neighboring country like Malaysia.

You can show both passports upon entering the Kingdom, all valid visas are still valid in an otherwise expired and cancelled passport. When back in Thailand you shall go to your local immigration office where you extension of stay is approved, and ask for your original visa and extension of stay being transferred to you new passport. Keep the letter that comes together with your new passport, the immigration office might wish a copy. Your new passport will be rubber stamped with confirmation of your original entry visa and latest extension of stay, and from that time you only need to show your new passport. Example of visa-transfer... Example of extension of stay transfer...

It might well depend on the local immigration office, they have different regulations when it comes to proof of rental agreement. Furthermore, regulations can change during a 30-year period. Best thing would be to have permission from the owner to be registered in a Yellow House Book for aliens, then you have proof of address for the immigration office; furthermore you can apply for a pink ID-card for foreigners.

Yes. If owner registered in house book there will be a 50% deduction of appraised property value (land+house), the value will be divided with 10 – or split over 10 years – and income tax calculated for each year without any personal deductions; i.e. starting at 5% for each year. The is an excellent property sales tax calculator HERE.

I've done online 6-7 days late and was (luckily) accepted.

I've used it, but can't remember exactly how much; I think it was around 200 baht.

You can extend your stay domestically for 1,900 baht. If leaving the country and re-entering, you'll get another 30 days visa exempt entry. Your ticket return date is your problem, you will need a ticket out of Thailand within your 30 days visa exempt stay. As mentioned above, it might be the airline checking you at the departure destination. The flight reservation method, also mentioned above, is often recommended and might work, I have no experience, and I either haven't hear about any problems using that method. Otherwise a cheap budget airline ticket our of Thailand can be the solution, especially if you already wish to visit a neighboring – or other – country. If you apply for 60-days tourist visa from home it needs to be multiple entry, to re-enter on the same visa. However, with a 60-days visa you return ticket is no problem and you will still get 30 days visa-exempt when re-entering.

Best heat insulation comes for Q-con blocks – aerated concrete – but they are not cheap; it's about 3 times the cost of the cheap blocks. It's a rater old Swedish invention, and for years many Scandinavian houses used that as only insulation, up to some time in the mid 1970's, when building regulations for insulation became stricter due to the first oil-crises. The product became available in Thailand about 15 years ago – the product were new when I built my house in 2009. A benefit with aerated concrete is – Q-con is a Thai brand name – that you can save a lot of aircon-power. Furthermore, they are easy to drill in – without being a thin layer with nothing behind – if you wish to hang something on the wall.

I didn't see Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao, Surin and Buri Ram in your list. There might several other places missing. So, plenty of place still to visit...

I would think that any kind of injections are bad – there has been news stories about very bad (read: extremely bad) results with various kind of oils and like. A thinner blood seems to help erection – and probably also a bit in size – for example by taking a so-called heart Asperin daily or just a few days a week. It's 75-85 mg acetylsalicylic acid and normally won't harm otherwise healthy people, but can rather be a benefit. Taking more than one tablet a day won't increase the effect, studies says. However, it's very often mentioned that it's not the size that matters – I've even heard about ladies that refuse, if the size is too big... When measuring size it's said to be in erected state, which is what you see in the various comparative reports, ranging from below 4 inches (10 cm) – some is even down to 3.1 inch (just below 8 cm) to a bit over 7 inches (18 cm) with 7.8 inches (almost 20 cm) at top. East Asian sizes are normally listed in the low end. About naming size: I'm very average for my country – so relative "big" compared to some, and relative "small" compared to others... – and also seems to be proper average sized between body and head. However, I won't annoy the honored members of the forum by taking and sharing any photos – and I luckily never had any size problems with any part of my tool, so far... Honestly, I would suggest that you don't care too much about your equipment's size – your partners might care a lot less than you, if not "too big" – and enjoy life instead...

Red wines marked with "dry" tastes sour. Wine is pretty much a question of individual taste – and if you are wine-drinker, it's also a matter of what you are used to drink – but in general a French Bordeaux wine is normally a good choice, but not the cheapest – will be from around 700-800 baht per bottle and up. The mere affordable Spanish "Osborne" (with a bull-logo) red wine is also fine. If you look for cheaper table-wine (house wine) in a container or cardboard box, the Australian "Gossip" at around 800-900 baht for 3 liters is a Okay choice after my taste. Even the cheapest box wine in Makro, "Holla" for around 700 baht for 3 liters is also all right. Again a matter of taste, but in Thailand wine taste best if cooled – also red wine – like you would drink the French "nouveau" (new = young) wine.

To my knowledge: Yes. Your annual permission to stay is based on 65k baht being transferred every month. If you don't keep that, your extension of stay is void, which means that you cannot extend it for another year. You will furthermore need 800k baht deposit in the bank two month before you apply for your next extension of stay. However, you could ask you local immigration office, if the will accept a change to deposit-method, before your existing extension of stay expires.

I presume your Thai ID is linked to your passport, as you need to give that information, to obtain a Yellow House Book. New passports are linked to old passport numbers. And, by the way, a TM30 report includes nationality and both latest arrival date to the Kingdom, and length of stay. A Thai ID has a special code-number for foreigners, so it might not be accepted at all in the system. Edit, PS: It's much easier just to follow the regulations...

The old system worked until mid September, which is just about three month ago.

Your TM30 needs to be in the new electronic data-system from mid September this year (2023), as no data has been transferred from the old system. I had the problem after re-entering before the new system opened, as the immigration office checked if my TM30 was reported in the new system when applying for extension of stay. It wasn't, so I could not apply for my extension of stay before the TM30 was reported in their new system.

You can find English translation of the various rules and police orders – just Google, if no links are shared – but the different immigration offices might have their own regulations on top. Furthermore, when entering a country it's in general up to the individual immigration officer's judgement, to allow your entry; however, they will often call for support from a superior officer, if they are in doubt. HERE is a link to the official site of visas, and HERE is an official Royal Thai Consulate-link with detailed explanations.

I've been changing bank a couple of times to obtain the best interest rate. I did it when the former agreed fixed term ended – to obtain my full interest from that – and moved the money during the same day to another bank, so the funds in theory has been in deposit every day. My interest date is about a week after my extension of stay expiry date, so it's always done after renewal. I'm not sure if it's a good idea to do it during the two month maturing period before applying for extension of stay. Most immigration offices – if not all – still wish, to my knowledge, a photocopy of an updated bank book, so you should preferably have a deposit account with a bank book. But ask your local immigration office in Chiang Mai – many of them have slight different rules – what they want, preferably get their printed list of documentation for extension of stay based on retirement with a bank deposit.

If your home country has a Double Taxation Agreement (DTA) with Thailand, you are most likely not taxed on your already taxed retirement pension from your home country. However, if your home country's income taxation is lower that Thailand's and retirement pensions can be taxed in both states – read your DTA – you might need to pay the difference. By the way: I would love to pay income tax of my retirement pension in Thailand, instead of my home country...

Make sure you have a proper fire-insurance on the building, it's actually relative cheap.

I didn't miss anything, I referred to an article and showed it's list for information... You are welcome to enlarge the list by methods of sexual fun – which I presume also can be performed by a number of the listed sexual-oriented genders – and additional genders...

Have you read the article..?