mran66

"Reform is essential if we are to empower Thailand’s future through stronger evaluation.” The most important word of this sentence is "if". As the power holders do not want progress in fear of loosing their grip, in real life they are not to empower masses. Education system is exactly as it is designed to be to prevent progress.

Includes 'fines' without receipt? Anyway those surprisingly create energy...

... and on top of that, the conservatives certainly are assessing whether to use the nicely timed opportunity to use the upcoming court verdicts to close the Shin chapter in Thai politics. Almost looks like the conservatives made the deal with Taksin to form the govt and let him come back to Thailand to wait him to make a small side step to walk to a trap - a side step her daughter nicely did - though I would guess they never imagined to see a blunder like this to open the opportunity. To survive, he would need to pull some new aces from his sleeve. But entertaining the whole show is for foreigners - in all of its sadness for the country.

100 baht medical certificate business will be booming, driving economy to new highs.

If you want to spend majority of your time hanging on pattaya beach road and/or end of 2nd road near walking street AND don't like Indians, better not come. But if you spend most of your time elsewhere, no issues even if you would not like Indians. In pratamnak where I live not much Indians.

That's the net after taxes. So same with a different point of view.

Well, insurance is something at least I have had and will have as long as I qualify for one so no savings from that to skip LTR. And in case the worldwide taxation would come, cost of insurance would be meaningless compared to tax savings. Even with the tax on remittances only insurance far less than tax savings

The LTR must be one of the simplest thai visas that one can get, though I only have experience of a tourist visa (in Vientiane over a decade ago) and non-o retirement, both of which I managed to do myself without any major trouble. With LTR the big thing is you don't need to go visit immigration office multiple times telling you that something is not as they wish even if according to official requirements). Instead you just upload the pdfs of required documents to their website and if they ask foe something more, upload those. No hassles with immigration officers with varying requests and going back and forth to immigration and waiting on queues. If you are able to get the required documents (that agent can't do for you anyway), you must be able to upload them to their website too. I can't see any added value from any middleman, just additional hassle. As a bonus you get rid of the 90 day reporting and from keeping your cash locked into bank account - not to speak about the tax worries

For me they cared enough to ask for statement of portfolio where the income is derived from. Initially I only submitted income report for 2024. I guess the purpose of the request was to kind of verify the income is truly 'passive', not some non-qualified income structured into passive income

I have not filed income tax returns anywhere for over 10 years and got my LTR WP so not mandatory as long as you have evedince to prove your income that is qualified. I just submitted my statements from financial institution that holds my stuff and that was good enough.

Actually worse as Thais in general still seem to respect the temples and monks whereas all know about police being corrupt. Milking the brainwashed as middle ages in Europe.

Would be interesting to know how many of the calendars included in the 50m baht quotation actually were printed and delivered...

I would think thai govt and esp TAT and BoT would be happy as this means foreigners bring their cash to thailand instead of traveling to Vietnam. If not enough local workers, need to just import workers to satisfy demand and keep forex coming to thailand.

Anyway at least the run was well named

Frequency of tourism up and down changes going up. Wonder where could get Thai-tourism-up-down-frequency measurement device. Measured frequency number would be sure bet in lottery.