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The tax free threshold of 150k is not a deduction. That amount is not subtracted from your gross income to arrive at your net income. The 0 to 150k is merely an income range at which no taxes are levied. In my case, my gross income is 1,000,000 baht (not counting my government pension, which is 100% deductible). I deduct 60k for self care and 190k for aged allowance, giving me a net income of 750,000 baht. I cannot deduct a further 150,000 baht for the tax free threshold. This would give me a net income of 600,000, which is not the case. As stated, my net income is 750,000 baht. It pains me to inform you that you do not understand what the word "deduction" means, at least as that word applies to gross versus net income for taxation purposes.

The Revenue Department sends a letter to my address every year telling me that I have to file a tax return by March 31st. Clearly they know who I am and where I live. Your contention that the Revenue Department can't enforce the tax laws against foreigners, or even against Thais, is patently ridiculous.

How do you get 500,000 baht in allowable deductions? Every taxpayer gets a 60,000 baht deduction. Those over 65 years of age get an additional 190,000 baht deduction. That adds up to 250,000 baht in deductions. Where does the other 250,000 come from? Also, I have never worked in Thailand but I have a Thai taxpayer ID. Why would you have been refused? The Thai Revenue Dept. wants foreigners to pay taxes, so of course they gladly issue us taxpayer ID numbers. It's a very simple process. What you said in your post just doesn't add up.

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Sorry. I submitted this post very late at night (or actually very early morning) so my math was a little bit off. I should have said that I withdraw 25 notes without any problem, rather than 29. Any confusion generated by my post is perfectly understandable. I regret the erroneous nature of my original calculation.

Whenever I need money to live on, I take 20,900 baht from a Bangkok Bank ATM. That's 20 x 1,000 baht notes, plus one 500 baht note and four 100 baht notes. That's a total of 29 notes from the ATM. I have never had the slightest problem taking those 29 notes from the ATM slot. Your assertion that 18 notes is difficult to remove and that the machine could not dispense more than 20 notes seems very bizarre to me in that it is totally contrary to my experience using Bangkok Bank ATMs for 17 years.

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My score 100/100. 49 seconds. Probably older than you are and living outside of America for 29 of the last 30 years.

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I think that 700 MREs would require a much bigger shipping container than a suitcase, no matter how many. Also, as a U.S. Army veteran with two honorable discharges, I can attest to the fact that MREs grow tiresome very quickly. I couldn't eat seven MREs in a row, never mind 700.

Bring things to Thailand rather than buying them here. What a great suggestion. All I have to do is fly to my home country and bring back enough gasoline to power my Yamaha motorbike for the next year. Also, I'll bring enough food to eat for the next year. Genius. Why didn't I think of that?

Thanks for your very specific and enlightening post. Would you mine elaborating and telling us exactly which number is zero? "The number is zero" has to be the most absurdly vague and meaningless post I have ever seen on this forum. Good job.

Can I ask why so many people are spending time on this thread talking about Portugal? In case it escaped your notice, we are all living in Thailand, not Portugal, so who the heck cares about what is happening in Portugal? I'd like to respectfully request that people stop wasting time posting about Portugal and instead stick to talking about Thailand. Let the expats living in Portugal worry about what is happening there.

Wow!!! That's very scary. Why would you want to make life difficult for the foreigners who live here and need to extend their visas every year? The people who need to book appointments never did anything to hurt you, did they? Also, I assume the Thai authorities would consider what you're suggesting to be a serious computer-related crime. With your superior programming skills presumably they wouldn't be able to apprehend you. But what if the police are more clever than you think? The best case scenario is that you'd be fined, deported, and blacklisted for at least five years. The worst case would be that you'd spend time in a Thai prison, which, from what I've read, are not very nice places to find yourself. Would it really be worth it? We know what the risks are, but what would the possible benefits be? What would you stand to gain? Why not just live your life in peace and let other people live theirs? Is that such a bad idea?

I'm afraid that wouldn't work. You can only book a single time slot. If you attempted to book a second time slot, the slot that you had already booked would automatically be deleted and made available to somebody else.

I forgot to check at midnight, but even this morning there was still one slot left on October 3rd, which I was able to book. I was wrong about the website not working. I just needed to be more diligent and to pay more attention to detail. Thanks for taking the time to reply.

Thanks very much for your reply. I have done exactly as you stated, which is to log-on to the website at precisely midnight and book a time slot only a few seconds later. This system has worked flawlessly up until my last extension last October. If you count today as day 1, then October 1st will be 90 days later. Tonight at midnight I will be on the Immigration website to see if there are time slots available, as has always been the case in the past. If there are no slots at one second after midnight, then something is not functioning properly.

Every year I go to the Chiang Mai Immigration website and book a date and time to extend my retirement visa. This year, it seems, the queue online function is not working the same as in previous years. There have always been some available time slots within three months, usually in the afternoon at 1:00 or 2:30. This year, however, there are no available time slots at all, going as far as October 31st. Earlier this week the website was down for about 24 hours. I need to extend my visa in October and would like to book a date and time as early as possible, but as of this writing that doesn't seem possible. Has anyone else had the same problem trying to book a time slot to extend their retirement visa? The website I go to is cmimm.net, which ultimately takes me to the following website: https://outlook.office365.com/book/[email protected]/. Does anyone know if there is another way to book a date and time for visa extension other than using the website mentioned above? I certainly don't want to go back to showing up at Chiang Mai Immigration at 05:30 in the morning to be number one in the queue. Any information you can provide will be greatly appreciated, not only by me but also by anyone else having a similar problem. Thanks very much in advance.

Interesting theory, but, unfortunately, it is not possible. Under the Constitution of the United States, the president has the power to pardon those convicted of crimes against the United States, which is to say federal crimes. Donald Trump was convicted in Manhattan of violating New York state law, not federal law. The only person who could pardon him is Kathy Hochul, the governor of the state of New York. She is a radical Democratic-Socialist who wouldn't pardon Trump even if someone had a shotgun strategically placed to the back of her head. So, sad to say, your convoluted scheme is not going to materialize. My advice is to try coming up with a new plan.

Prior to your post, I had never heard of the Common Reporting Standard. I'll look into it and get back to you.

Of course you wouldn't have to pay taxes on capital gains accrued in the U.S. How could the Thai government possibly know if someone living here had capital gains that never left the U.S.? Even if someone were stupid enough to inform the Thai tax authorities, they would still have no authority to tax money that never entered Thailand. How could they? On the other hand, presumably they could tax any money entering Thailand no matter what the source of that money was. That is the issue that the foreigners living here are very much concerned about these days.

At Chiang Mai Immigration, you have to provide a yearly bank statement that you get from the bank just prior to your trip to Immigration to renew your visa. This statement shows every single transaction, even if you have more than one in a single day. Last time I was there, the Immigration official didn't even ask to see my actual bank book, only the yearly statement, which the official scrutinized very closely. Of course they would know if an entire page were missing. Each page contains a large number of transactions, so the missing page would show a huge gap in the timeline. The people who work for Immigration aren't all complete idiots. Maybe Hua Hin Immigration has different policies.

Citibank will not allow you to log on to their website if you are using a VPN. Somehow they can detect that a VPN has been activated. It is for security reasons because the bank doesn't know exactly where the person attempting to log on is actually located. I appreciate the fact that Citibank is acting to protect my money from people who may be trying to misappropriate it. However, I can and do log in to my investment accounts using a VPN without any problems. It seems that the investment companies are not as diligent in watching over my money as Citibank is.