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On 12/28/2021 at 1:44 PM, DrJack54 said:

Some folk refer to a Non O-A retirement as "retirement visa".

They are obtained in your own country or country of residence.

If you actually plan to retire here and live ongoing I would suggest you obtain a Non O (retirement).

The non O can be obtain in Thailand once here or depending on which country your from can be obtained there.

You will require further advice about the financial requirements of both options. 

Personally I would defer travel to Thailand currently. 

Thanks - I don't have 800k, so I meant returning on a tourist visa and paying an agent in Thailand to put up the funds (for a day) and apply for the retirement visa. I got the retirement visa this way without leaving Thailand from 2010 to 2020. Now I have an agent in Thailand quoting as follows:

"Non O immigrant visa is 20,000 THB
A year retirement visa is 16,000 THB"

QUESTION: Why would I need both, or is the above just a silly answer to a silly question?

On 12/28/2021 at 1:50 PM, ubonjoe said:

If entering visa exempt or on a tourist visa you can apply for a non-o visa and then during the last 30 days of the 90 days from the non-o visa you can apply for a one year extension of stay based upon retirement at immigration.

Or do you mean Non-OA visa issued by a embassy or official Thai consulate,

Thanks - I don't have 800k, so I meant returning on a tourist visa and paying an agent in Thailand to put up the funds (for a day) and apply for the retirement visa. I got the retirement visa this way without leaving Thailand from 2010 to 2020. Now I have an agent in Thailand quoting as follows:

"Non O immigrant visa is 20,000 THB
A year retirement visa is 16,000 THB"

QUESTION: Why would I need both, or is the above just a silly answer to a silly question?

I would like to return to Thailand (lived there 25 years) on a retirement visa once things settle down re covid: Are they still issuing retirement visas, I wonder, and has the process changed? I used to get mine through an agent.

Re alternatives to Brazil: Argentina is currently in economic crisis mode and experiencing hyperinflation - again. Venezuela is a basket case. 

14 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

All the Nations in S E Asia will be looking at the Tourism Industry.

Many will be picking up the pieces from Thailand,s demise in the Sector.

Nations such as Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, and Malaysia are going to have increased Tourist numbers because Thailand has played a greed game, that now will bite them in the A55.

All the other Nations can offer more bang for the buck than Thailand, and also a better Vacation Experience.

As with Business,s, Covid has given many an opportunity, and time to stand back and do a reality check, and the results are going to surprise many for sure in the Tourism sectors of SE Asia.

Based on it's size, Thailand would still offer a far better commercial sex experience for tourists.

When you believe in things
That you don't understand,
Then you suffer,
Superstition ain't the way

STEVIE WONDER

15 hours ago, Tanomazu said:

Exactly, and in Thailand you only get charged income tax if you brought the money in and it was earned in the same year.

 

Much better tax rules for expats in Thailand.

Aussie Questioner: I have a Thai Taxpayer ID number from the Revenue Dept.. My understanding is that, If i were to retire to Thailand and live on investment income and/or a pension, then I would be liable (if not expected) to declare both as income and potentially incur a tax liability.  .What say you, chaps ?

7 minutes ago, HooHaa said:

i suggest getting a gps reading

The PDK Kawasaki KR150 has 50 hp and there are a few in Thailand if you've got a spare 150-300k.

On 6/9/2009 at 7:53 PM, INTJ said:

So does a stock TZM do 180plus ?

On my speedo with my 70kg - yes. The TZM has 36hp stock compared to the 33hp of a stock a TZR.

Hang on, there is an opposition? When did that happen? I thought they had taken their ball home because they kept losing. Bad news 'opposition,' you will always lose at the election box. Ban all the politicians you want, you've tried this before...how did that work out? Unless you want to become North Korea or be the new Burma of ASEAN. I thought one of these lot had been to Oxford? I assumed it was the University...

The only thing this tells me is that the bar you were at yesterday has Happy Hours every Tuesday.

The Yingluck administration is being squeezed out from many different angles at once. The election failed to deliver them a quorum, and there is no credible path to achieving one. They are frozen on delegating funds, establishing contracts with other countries, attracting investment, announcing any policies, nor the ability to continue existing ones. Even the power of the emergency decree will likely be challenged in court. The actions we see the Yingluck administration now take on a daily basis is all they can do. All they can do is talk. They can express outrage and " try " give orders to the EC, they can " try " to establish a PR narrative of blame, they can " try " to arrange auctions to salvage the rice scheme, and they can " try " to continue to administer an avalanche of threats on those that oppose the administration. They are also reduced to the ultimate humiliation of trying to seek whatever power can be granted them through the very oversight institutions that they have held such open disregard for in the past. But much more than that, they can't open government offices, they can't stifle the protest on the streets, and the inexorable march of the courts continues. They have been backed into a corner. The Prime Minister has long ceased to occupy her office at Government House. She is being jostled secretly from location to location, ascending and descending stairwells. She arranges interviews with international media outlets, where she is confronted by another kind of discomfort - caught between the probing, disconcerting reality of the questions posed to her - and her efforts to show a skeptical press that she is capable of handling any of it.

I've been saying it for weeks: She's toast.

Thailand has a Think Tank ? i know it has a lot of thick tanks but a thinking one ? hmmm a novelty

Good one and at the same time somehow manage to reduce a possible value of the article itself.

Anyway, once more it becomes clear that figures provided by the government do not match up. Even a golf caddy would have difficulties to explain away how come this wonderful scheme which should be continued for years and make Thailand a profit, how come this not only didn't work out, could never work out, but was even allowed to continue with losses mounting into the hundred billions.

Thailand has at least two 'think tanks' - I used to work at a different one: www.kpi.ac.th

Unfortunately the education system basically does the same thing.

Some posts claiming that Thaksin isn't the real PM contradict not only a mountain of readily available evidence but also various statements made by Thaksin himself confirming that little sister and nominal PM works for big brother - just like she always has.

Vile old creep surrounded by gun toting guards. About as Buddhist as my parrot

LOL: That "vile old creep" looks younger than you - and me.

It is impossible to take a "wrong turn" onto this bridge. It is closed by cones and metal barriers that would need to be physically moved as a car cannot get through. I know as I look down on it from my office in Chamchuri Square, and drive past it every day. More to this story I feel.

There might be. However, before the business about "red" Khao Sod fabricating stories starts, I'd like to point out it was reported by other media people, including Nation journalist Noppatjak.

Richard Barrow ‏@RichardBarrow 14h

Motorist who was injured when his car was shot at on the Thai-Japanese Bridge near Chamchuri Square (Pic @noppatjak)

tukky_nt ‏@tukky_nt 14h

A woman injured in one of the cars shot on Thai-Japanese Brdg; not far fr PDRC stage at Lumpini Park via @noppatjak pic.twitter.com/AMFh2lbT0i

tukky_nt ‏@tukky_nt

11.17pm: At least three cars were shot on Thai-Japanese Bridge near Chamchuree Square, Samyan via @noppatjak pic.twitter.com/Wh6I5OgBkl

' One outa three ain't good.'

There is a huge difference between 2 men fighting for 2 very different things. In the Ukraine, Klitschko is among the protesters, even at the very front of the fights with police. He is fighting for Democracy, calling for elections. Suthep on the other hand is currently in a safe house according to the latest media reports, hoping his supporters will make a power grab for him and is not afraid of causing a civil war in order to prevent elections. Two men, one a hero, one a coward.

So in the Ukraine it is right to fight an democratic elected government.

In Thailand it is wrong to fight an not so democratic elected government.

In the Ukraine, people are fighting FOR elections. In Thailand, people are fighting AGAINST elections.

Which one seems more democratic to you?

More simplistic rubbish.

If the violence escalates significantly Yingluck will have to resign, and if Suthep is shot she's toast.

"Thailands embattled government has offered to call off an election set for February 2 if protesters end their rallies and promise not to obstruct or boycott a new one within months."

Do they really think this is what the protestors want? How will this meet their demands for reform? Clueless.

Interesting, and Suthep is saying that they're there as a show of objection to the elections and his people are not to obstruct voters. It certainly doesn't sound as if he's sticking to one script, story, chain of events, or consequences. All it suggests is that he needs help getting into his jacket...

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Sure he's crazy - like a fox.

BLINK.

Every timer she blinks, they realise it is working more and more.

I predict ;

They will go more peaceful and less disruptive, but not go away.

The goal is to remove Thaksin's hands from the ability to use public funds

to buy the next election in Rice country and to increase the government's embarrassment

for inept governance and mounting losses for the nation.

She just isn't appearing steely enough to stand fast an against this continuous pressure.

There's always the 'ugly sister'.

"Thailands embattled government has offered to call off an election set for February 2 if protesters end their rallies and promise not to obstruct or boycott a new one within months."

Do they really think this is what the protestors want? How will this meet their demands for reform? Clueless.

Regardless of how we got to this point and who's to blame the elite on both sides have to stop this madness one way or another.

Yingluck has agreed to resign and leave politics forever if her families safety is guaranteed and if there will be a normal run of the mill election. Currently Suthep and the PDRC have refused to completely okay this offer, however they haven't flat out refused it either.

This action symbolically removes Thaksin's influence from Thai politics despite the reality where he retains control of the PTP, this also allows Suthep to declare victory over Shincorp giving both sides the opportunity to save face. The democrats can champion the fact they removed a corrupt PM through non-violent means using people power something previously completely alien to them.

The farmers are angry, the government has cost people from the top to the bottom of society billions of baht by enacting the state of emergency then doing nothing with it and the Red shirts feel shunned after being left out of the recent political conflict only renewing the growing divide between the PTP and the Red shirts that existed before the Amnesty bill farce.

If Suthep keeps himself out of the spotlight (which is highly unlikely considering his planet sized ego) during a potential election campaign the Democrats may actually have a chance of winning if they take the moral high road now and promise a reform council to truly tackle corruption.

"Yingluck has agreed to resign and leave politics forever if her families (sic) safety is guaranteed and if there will be a normal runof the mill election."

Source ??

The government has made this up surely to try and stop people from following the real news in the hope they can pull the wool over people's eyes to what really happens over the next week. On Sunday the wheels will start falling off the wagon and it will all be downhill from there...

Yep - won't be long now: I can hear the fat lady warming up out the back.

Just think pink!

Newspapers and journalists also have to bear some responsibility. The Nation for instance, a blatantly anti-thaksin newspaper, is pumping out the propaganda (and probably generating good sales due to the gullibility of its target market). I believe they should show a bit more social and journalistic responsibility instead of fanning the flames.

I disagree: IMO the Nation is blatantly anti-authoritarian and thereby only anti-Thaksin by default. Moreover,the record shows that the Nation remains consistent and resolute in its views, whereas the Bangkok turns all meek and mild when the business community starts to whine about political unrest and starts to heavily editorialize. Finally, doesn't Thaksin own a large chunk of Matichon, what was generally considered to be the best of the Thai language dailies - at least until Thaksin's purchase?