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I'm planning to apply for the export license. The statue is too large to fit in a checked bag, so that wouldn't be an option anyway. The article in the Post references Buddha images; my statue isn't a Buddha image - it's a Burmese apsara or "nat." I'm not sure if that will make a difference where the age restriction is concerned. At any rate, if I'm denied a license, then I'll just have to find another way, I guess. I'm not going to let these jackals rob me of my personal possessions.

Just another shakedown. I can't believe these schmucks are demanding I pay a fee to export a statue I've owned for 10 years and which originated in and was purchased in another country.

It's a real mystery, I tell ya! BTW, nice sales pitch, OP. 😉

Yeah, I opined in another thread recently that the whole 90 day reporting scheme made me feel kind of like a crook on parole. Judging from their responses, I think I inadvertently hurt some of the apologists' feelings. Oh well - boot lickers gonna boot lick, I guess.

Was that one in the self-assessment? If not, then it should be.

Are they sure 5K is severe enough? Gotta send a message to the rest of the farang community that you can't just sully Thailand's global image of chastity, purity and all-around virtue with impunity.

Whew! That's what I thought. Thank goodness I'll be out of here before then. 😎

Just to make sure I've got this straight: Tax on accessible income from 2024 would be due in 2025, correct?

I'm more than a little concerned right now as I'm in the process of moving back to the U.S. and the contact person at my shipping company is telling me I need to obtain an export license for an apsara (not a Buddha) statue my sister purchased for me as a gift ten years ago on a trip to Burma. The statue is definitely older than five years. My father in-law is convinced that the statue is, in fact, hundreds of years old. I just hope these clowns don't tell me I can't export the statue as it's one of my most precious possessions. The fact that (a) the statue came from Myanmar and (b) is an apsara (or "nat") image - not a Buddha image - doesn't seem to make a difference to these geniuses.

“Where does that come from,” you ask? As triggered as you’re getting over an expat criticizing the 90 day reporting scheme, I have to wonder whether you’re actually Big Joke posting here under an a.k.a. But then again, I’m guessing even Big Joke wouldn’t choose a username as puerile and fatuous as “MisterPooFarty.”

You're obviously a knee-jerk Thai apologist - and one who's not too swift when it comes to reading comprehension. Were this not the case, then you would have noted where I indicated in my OP that 90 day reports were just one of the straws that broke the proverbial camel's back. In any event, your butt hurt response to my comment would suggest you've never had to deal with a differing perspective or opinion in your entire life. And that's sad.

When it works.

...or it could be you simply have a high tolerance for being treated like a criminal? Anyway, the 90 day reporting farce is merely one of the reasons, as stated in my OP.

Yep. And just one of the reasons why I will not be renewing my LT visa and will be returning to my home country. Tired of being treated like a crook on parole and having to metaphorically hop up and down on one foot and recite the alphabet backwards on demand by these puffed-up simpletons.