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34 minutes ago, Flustered said:

So what part of earning money while working in a foreign country but not paying tax to that country on monies earnt did you not understand and why try to spin the discussion away from Digital Nomads not paying taxes?

 

I was accused of being envious (for money reasons) and simply pointed out I had no reason to be envious. You apparently want to escalate a simple response to a full scale argument by baiting.

What part of the Thai tax legislation on foreign income do you not understand?

The law is that foreign income is taxable if remitted to Thailand in the year earned, if someone does not do that then they are in breach of the  law, however if they do comply then they are fully tax compliant - just like any other Thai tax resident, Thai or foreign, with foreign derived income.

Digital nomads can't "choose to pay tax wherever they like" - they are subject to the same tax rules as everybody else. Yes they can structure their finances to minimise tax, but this is not tax evasion.

4 hours ago, ubonr1971 said:

Im interested in this thread still. Does anyone have any other opinions?

There is Hua Hin International School which is relatively new and appears to have good facilities and an experienced team behind it - we're going to check it out soon.

Otherwise I think it's limited to Pattaya (or close by), Phuket and Samui.

On 12/28/2014 at 10:09 AM, N47HAN said:

Without doubt has to be Phuket.

Some of the best international schools in Thailand.

Be prepared to pay though 1 to 2 million per year per student.

How does it end up at 1 - 2 million per student if the max annual fees (for the 16 / 17 year olds) are around 700k?

I'm just interested in what I'm missing - I know there are excursions etc, but surely this doesn't add up to an extra 1.3 million per year. 

We live in 10110 and our post gets handled by Phra Khanong post office - perhaps it's out for delivery, with a guard, or sat at the post office. Worth contacting them.

Edit - saw your second post - glad it arrived.

Pretty sure it's a short movie. It has what look a lot like credits at the end, and the police would not be there that quick, and there's no reason why the camera would stop rolling but the sound continue working.

2 hours ago, pgrahmm said:

Sorry guys....

Just reran the search - went through 17 pages on the english search & found nothing of the same item under the 281 baht price from yesterday....

Reran the Thai search & identical item at 185 baht today....

This just means that the search term you are using in Thai better matches the description entered by the cheapest vendor. The item is not going to show up under any english term search if the description is entirely written in Thai - because it doesn't match the search term.

It's a technical limitation, not 'dual pricing'.

EDIT - I do think it's a helpful post though, good to get someone to search in Thai as well to ensure you can compare across all vendors.

Never bother taking a parked taxi - pretty much always want off meter. Walk away to a busy road and flag one down.

18 hours ago, Pdaz said:

No income tax for me

To be frank, it's about the last bastion for me.. considering other options.

My kid got his in 10 days - get down there asap and get the process going.

Prefer making my own, but Coffee Club is decent

On 3/31/2017 at 2:13 PM, taiping said:

"belittling and dismissive attitude" at CW?

Never, in all my years going to CW and Soi Suan Plu for marriage and retirement visa extensions. They are government employees just trying to do their job, so I don't expect to be treated like a VIP, but they have always been courteous with me.

Must be something wrong with his attitude. 

Lucky you.

My recent experience strongly differs, despite me being well dressed and polite (at least for the first four hours of entirely unnecessary hoop jumping), and with all documents organised in a folder, copied in triplicate, an officer there decided to take her bad day out on me for no justifiable reason right from the get go.

Her very first words, after responding to my smile and wai with a scowl, were to accuse me of not doing a TM30 despite me having the receipt in my passport, she then told me I had to do one every 3 months and the receipt I had was not valid. Absolutely not the case, which is why, I assume, she decided to 'ignore' it. 

Finally after going through everything with a fine toothed comb and having found nothing to take issue with she decided to reject the photos because the one that showed the house number did not show enough of the house in the background. The glee on her face was palpable.

To add insult, she stopped processing my docs for a couple of minutes and took someone else's, rubber stamping the whole lot without a second glance. At one point about 8 hours in she aggressively threw 6 copies of the same document at me to fill in. By that point I was close to flipping, so I just filled in one and threw the rest back in the same manner. No further words were exchanged between us and when she finally rubber stamped it I just took it and walked off to the next official with my stamped docs.

And indeed, as with Skeptik7's report, once I finally to the next official, who had witnessed the whole escapade, she was extremely friendly and appeared somewhat embarrassed and empathetic. I wonder if we got the same person... extension issued fine, thankfully not back there for another year but the whole experience has tempted me to go onto an Elite visa.

It's the first time I've encountered this sort of issue at immigration to be fair, but it was a highly stressful day due to a nasty individual power tripping. Hopefully I don't have to see her wasp chewing face again.

In terms of the actual visa, what are you planning for schooling? If you're going to put them in school here (and if you are, i recommend you pick a good international one) then that can be a route to a visa for you as the parents.

http://gam-legalalliance.com/non-immigrant-o-guardian-visa/

To legally 'work' in Thailand, you would need to be employed by a local company. Many people who operate as you do (online, with clients all offshore and payment all received offshore) simply do it under the radar. It does not appear that Thai authorities are especially interested in pursuing people that work online and do not deal with Thai customers or clients.

12 hours ago, oby said:

blah, blah, blah,

?never seen a muslim sword?~~~~~~~~

 

 

ummmmmmmmm,

?do you see muslim burning kaffirs in cages??

sawing off heads ?? nail bombs??

drive trucks into crowds??

~~none so blind, that do not see~~

atheist, apostate first to go

very difficult to understand a mindset that condones wholesale slaughter and genocide of peoples with whom you difffer

 

You are taking the actions of a very small percentage of people within a religion, and assuming that they represent every believer of that religion.

But as you say, there are indeed 'none so blind as those that will not see'.

On 2/8/2017 at 7:14 AM, ubonjoe said:

You will not need wedding pictures.

You just need photos of you and your wife in and around the house. One photo must show both of you together with house number shown. The number of photos needed varies from office to office.

House number is not enough in my very recent experience at Chaeng Wattana, it must show wife, child(ren) (if applicable) and no other person. It must show the house number and also the house, and a selfie is not acceptable.

The other pics must show you in the house with a view of some household goods. Again include wife, chid(ren) and no other individual.

Hopefully you get lucky and get an officer that hasn't spent the morning dining on wasps, unlike the one I got.

I'd suggest working remotely for the west. Much more money.

5 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

That's what I said on post 45 [page 2.

My posts were more of a response to the statement you made that the "best" coders would be in SFO. I'd contend that the "best" have the ability to pick and choose both location and client, and that they are not required to be on-site. Some like to be, but some don't and for them Thailand is a decent place to stay, aside from the time zone.

SFO orgs pay best so that's an obvious choice for client location, and Thailand has a low cost of living a well as a great tax treatment of foreign income, so it's a logical choice of location.

38 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

So there remote and contract workers working for Silicon Valley and other US companies -- is that who you typically see sitting in Starbucks or shared work space in Chiang Mai which is who the Article in post #1 (remember?) seemed to be addressing?

Wouldn't say typically, but certainly some of them are.

4 minutes ago, Fabricus said:

 

What's Goatse?

Probably the most famous design on the internet 10 - 15 years ago. Not providing links cos it's very NSWF.

Glad it's not that though!

11 hours ago, JLCrab said:

Maybe that there are really talented persons who don't have to sit alone at a computer at a coffee shop in Bangkok  but work at some start-up in San Francisco ... but stay lost it's more fun.

There are some people that choose to do both. It is perfectly feasible technically and certainly makes financial sense.

Modern development processes (for example code reviews, agile methodology, pair programming) combined with instant text, voice and video communications (slack, hangouts, skype etc) and even collaborative screensharing (screenhero) means that colleagues do not need to be physically colocated in order to work together and "feed off" one another.

Plenty of SFO based startups and even some very established orgs are 100% remote, many more whilst not being 100% remote have large percentages of their workforce that are. Mozilla and Automattic spring straight to mind.

43 minutes ago, Fabricus said:

 

Ever wondered who made what ten years ago was the most famous design on the internet?

Goatse?

Worth getting in touch with these guys, they do Olympic plates for sure, and well priced. Supply loads of gyms in Thailand.

http://www.gymware.com/index.php

7 hours ago, likeke said:

Come on folks!  How difficult is it to wear a black shirt. Think of it as a plus to show respect to a visiting country. It will be easy to pack 3 or 4 black shirts/shorts/blouse. Don't have to worry about coordinating colors, etc. Show some respect for crying out loud! For myself, I am going back to Bangkok next month after having lived there for 3 years on retirement extension. and packing essentially what I described above. I have 2 pairs of black Levis, shorts, and 3 shirts. 

The 30 day mourning period is over. It is only public employees that are expected to wear black for a year.

@JackThompson however, a BVI company is a LOT less paperwork and ongoing expense. HK has also made it a lot more difficult to open corporate bank accounts recently.

Been looking into setting up a new business structure recently and leaning toward BVI company, Cyprus bank account. Easy setup, no annual return requirement, no tax on non BVI income. That would be my recommendation for what you describe.

@JackThompson from personal experience, http://www.asiabs.com/ are very good.

Do you think Google thought they were Microsoft back in 1998? Since they tried to sell up to SUN in '99 for $1m I doubt it.

Plenty of reasons for skilled workers to choose a small company, equity stakes that could be worth a fortune in the future being one of them. First few employees of Google were made billionaires at IPO in 2004.

In my developer life I worked for Microsoft, and refused an offer from Google, and shifted to startups. Small and fledgling companies have their own attractions.