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14 minutes ago, rhino533 said:

Is this correct?
If you have a one-year Non-Immigrant O Marriage Visa (leave the country every 90 days) and you leave the country with a week left on your 1 year visa, when you re-enter Thailand you will receive another 90-day stamp even if there is, lets say 1 day left before the year visa expires?  After that when you 90 day is about to expire, you can apply for a 60-day extension? 

My understanding is that each time you enter during the one year validity period of the visa you will get 90 days. If you enter with one day left you will get 90 days. I don't see why you wouldn't be allowed to extend that 90 day permission to stay for another 60 days. Hopefully one of the visa experts on the forum will post soon to confirm whether that is true.

I was under the impression that as long as you returned to Thailand before the visa expired you would get another 90 day permission to stay. I thought the idea with these visas was to time it to return the day before they expired to get a total of 15 months from each visa?

On 9/23/2023 at 2:33 PM, impulse said:

Asking out of curiosity, and because I don't know the answer.  Not to make a judgement...

 

Is there any risk of being charged with a crime if it comes to light that you're using a false residence address for banking or (especially) for NHS purposes or for other benefits, as recommended by several guys on here?

 

I would be wary about taking the advise that providing a false address is not illegal. Technically it is fraud by misrepresentation. A bank would probably take no action other than to cease doing business with you. The NHS, on the other hand, may view it as you receiving a financial gain if you are non resident and treat it more seriously. 

5 hours ago, Pumpuynarak said:

Then you need to look about imo.

Come on then, let us know which UK bank will give you 7% on the equivalent of 800,000 baht? I've had a look around and the best I have seen is 5.6%. My bank will do 5.5% but you need to deposit more than 800,000 baht for a one year fixed term. 

50 minutes ago, Walker88 said:

Kind of curious how Thailand expects to get access to US or other non-Thai bank records, transactions that result in Capital Gains, other passive income, etc.?

 

The honesty method?

 

"Hi, Thai tax authority. I just sold my Hampton's summer home for $38 million, after buying it in 2008 for $7 million. How much of that gain do you want?"

I believe Thailand is joining the Common Reporting Standard as of 01 January 2024. This means that a person's financial information will be shared between signatory  countries to the system.

1 hour ago, Thailand J said:

https://www.taxesforexpats.com/country-guides/thailand/us-tax-preparation-in-thailand.html

That seems to be about income in Thailand which would not be counted as money transferred from abroad.

22 minutes ago, Thailand J said:

May be you are referring to Capital gains and dividends from SET listed companies.

I don't know much about Thai tax rates at this point, I hope you are right.

Nothing to do with the SET. Money from abroad is what is being targeted. If the money from abroad is from CG or dividends then it should be declared as coming from those sources and taxed accordingly. If the money is from an inheritance are Thailand going to ignore their own tax rules for inheritance money and tax it as income?

16 minutes ago, Thailand J said:

For US retirees, the tax treaty exempts SS and pension incomes but it does not  help with capital gain (CG) and dividends incomes.

 

Based on my limited knowledge I made a table below, I am sure it's full of mistakes and it is over simplified, but the idea is that if you have CG and dividends from US and if Thai gov decided to tax them, you can only deduct taxes paid in US.

 

I am going to get insurance and apply for 10 yr LTR if I have to pay income tax  here. I have met other requirements.

If the money is from capital gains and dividends theoretically you would pay Thai capital gains and dividend tax on it not income tax.

Currently 15% and 10% I believe. A tax form would have to be filled out at some stage declaring where the money came from, it would be fraudulent to state it was income if it came from CG or dividends.

Are you trying to tell us that you are easily led, can't think for yourself and have no self control?

A couple of months ago I had a registered letter take an unusually long time to get to the UK. Tracked as leaving Thailand within three days (posted late on a Friday) then was in the wilderness for 17 days till the tracking logged it as at Heathrow. 

18 hours ago, CenThai said:

I was waiting for the name of that transformational drug or whatever medication that doctor gave you?! To hear how it immediately eased all pain and kickstarted you on this road to sobriety is simple a secret that needs to be revealed to those struggling to kick the habit.  So what's the magic pill? 

Yes, he regales us with his tale of the potent elixir that he has never heard of and his scepticism, his research on the internet and its miracle effects but then refuses to let us know what it was. The more the thread goes on the more it smells of more BS.

5 minutes ago, PETERTHEEATER said:

What is the 'ultrasonic method'? The current mehod used for removal of excess ear wax is 'microsuction'

They have a small ultrasonic bath with a tube and a thin wand. Low pressure water is pumped from the small bath through the tube and wand into your ear. All I felt was a slow trickle of water from my ear and fragments of wax came out with it. My problem is I get a pellet of impacted wax down by the eardrum. There is no way that is coming out with microsuction.

12 hours ago, rattlesnake said:

As I stated in my first post, I have several vaccinated acquaintances who deeply regret it.

 

I'm seeing a surge of illnesses of all types these days… and I'm not the only one.

 

Three military doctors say medical billing code data captured by Defense Medical Epidemiology Database shows sharp spikes in miscarriages, myocarditis, cancer diagnoses, Bell's palsy, female infertility. According to the data found by the military doctors, there was also a nearly 300% increase in cancer diagnoses, from a 38,700-per-year average in 2016-2020 to 114,645 in 2021.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/covid-panel-military-service-members-see-spikes-miscarriages-cancer

Turns out that the data they were using was incorrect. 

https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/alleged-spikes-in-medical-conditions-military-after-covid-19-vaccine-based-on-faulty-data-thomas-renz/

Back on topic, my son in Bangkok was ill with similar symptoms a few weeks ago. Was tested at the hospital and confirmed as H1N1 flu.

9 minutes ago, doctormann said:

A few years ago, I tried the oil trick - used olive oil - as this was recommended by Dr. Google.  Didn't work so I ended up going to a clinic anyway.  The nurse there gave me a right b*llo*king for daring to put oil in my ear.  Don't know why!  Anyway, got the H2O2 and vacuum treatment, which worked right away.  Unfortunately, that particular clinic has disappeared so I shall need to go somewhere else.  I have a couple of recommendations from board members so, if the problem persists after a couple of days, off I shall go.

Had similar experiences. One doctor tells you to use oil for a few days then come back for the syringe and another boll@&ks you for using oil.

Bit naughty but I do it myself. Put a drop of mineral oil in the ear every day for four or five days. Use a garden watering head set to the thin single jet of water. Start with low flow and direct into ear from a few cm away. Increase flow as necessary. 

If I could find a place that used the ultrasonic method I would go there but all I get round here is a nurse with a thin tube trying to suck the wax out which doesn't work.

It seems this is nothing to do with xenophobia or a money grab by the Thai government. The conditions have been forced upon Thailand by your own Western governments imposition of the Common Reporting Standard. Sorry for the long link but couldn't find a quick way to shorten it on Android. 

https://sherrings.com/common-reporting-standard-crs-tax-laws-thailand.html#:~:text=The Common Reporting Standard&text=It is a standard set,financial information that is exchanged.

I shall be declaring any money I send over as coming from an inheritance. Once I have used up the amount that I can prove as inherited I will review the situation.

The article isn't particularly clear if he charges for ketchup other than vaguely mentioning a sachet of mayonnaise. If you order chips and want curry sauce or aioli to dip them in I don't see too much of a problem charging for it, a sachet of ketchup would be a different matter.

1 hour ago, hotchilli said:

They can't even learn 1-10 in English

I have a friends daughter aged 15 who cannot tell the time in English, her father asked me to help.

She said she didn't understand English time, I said the clock is universal around the world. ie 12/24 hour time

I told her to think of the time in Thai and just convert the numbers to English..

the almost blank stare came back as she counted on her fingers one-to-eleven for eleven O'Clock.

Not quite true in Thailand. 9am can also be 3 in the morning and 8pm can be 2 in the evening.

1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Banking Apps is what concerns me a lot.

UK bank app was no problem but I have read that you need to visit the bank for a Thai bank app. Didn't have a thai bank app at the time so not sure about the process.

45 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Always scared whether I can get everything working again on a new item..as I get older technology scares me more. 

I was the same when I replaced my phone a couple of years ago. However when I switched the new phone on instructions came up on the screen for how to swap everything from my old phone onto the new one. The time consuming issue was having to put usernames and passwords into all the apps that required them.

What do you mean by forwarding firm? Similar to Kerry, Flash? Do you mean an agency that helps with passport renewals? How did you arrange for your embassy to return your new passport? Did you give the equivalent of a stamped addressed envelope for the forwarding company? Did the embassy have to contact the forwarding company when the new passport was ready? When you say "passport returned" is that the embassy saying they returned your new passport or the forwarding firm claiming that they delivered it to you?

16 hours ago, john donson said:

 

I have zero assets left in my home country and I get zero services like child allowance, because my kids live here in Th, I missed out on about 96.000 euros over 20 years for 2 kids (400 euros per month for 2 kids x 240 months)

 

so are you saying that whatever I have in Thailand, will be taxed by my government that delivers ZERO benefits to myself and my kids, but still will take 30-50% of whatever I managed to save, upon my death in Thailand?

 

 

 

I am British, I stay in Thailand with yearly extensions of a non-immigrant O visa. It would be hard to claim my domicile is Thailand when I don't have as much as PR status. Because my domicile would be considered Britain, (English), my worldwide assets will be liable for consideration for possible inheritance tax by the British tax office when I die. It makes no difference what nationalities the beneficiaries are as any assets they get will only be distributed after tax on the whole estate has been calculated by the British tax office. There is a tax free threshold of £325,000 and some property can be used to avoid a bit more tax if it meets certain conditions. Your country may have different rules.

The inheritance tax is on your estate and imposed by your country's tax office, it has nothing to do with the nationality of any beneficiaries.