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It will be difficult for anyone to help assess your situation unless you identify your home country (due to differences in DTAs) and the annual amount of pension you receive. Further, a DTA does not automatically exempt one from paying taxes in Thailand. The actual wording of the DTA specifies which country has primary or secondary (or any) taxation authority at all.

"Designated drinking zones." Or "bars", as I call them.

So you'll be going back tomorrow (again), I presume?

You don't know anyone who speaks Thai? Landlord, condo juristic office, the girl who works at Starbucks....? Perhaps try calling again with someone who speaks Thai who can explain to them what it is you are asking? Otherwise, I'd probably go to the office with the "notification" you received and try to obtain a timeline for receipt.

Theoretically speaking, that conspiracy theory to which you refer (something about routing payments through X) could benefit Musk if there was a charge to the government in the processing of those payments.

"Any idea"? Yes. Proceed with your plans, you are worrying for no reason whatsoever. No one at airport departure immigration is going to ask you about taxes. No one.

Why couldn't the government simply attach the fee to the electronic TM6 they plan to roll out in May? That's for foreign nationals only. You fill in the information, proceed to the payment page, enter credit card data, press send. No payment, no TM6. No TM6, no entry.

Serious question. You're in a relatively low cost "retirement paradise".... yet many of you expend a lot of effort arguing about Donald Trump. Why? What's the point? All politicians suck...you know that. Just enjoy your retirement.

According to the Bangkok Post, yesterday's nearly 2% decline in the SET now puts the SET firmly in bear market territory. The SET has declined 20% since October, if the story is accurate.

DEE money ceased operations 27 November 2024, AFAIK.

No one has to declare "overseas income" or pay tax on it. One has to declare assessable income that is remitted to Thailand if one is a tax resident of Thailand (in country more than 179 days per year.) The deadline for filing a tax return is 31 March 2025 for tax year 2024. The penalty is 1.5% surcharge per month on any taxes owed, on top of any fines that may (or may not) be levied.

Excellent response. Compelling and rich.

The resident economics writer at the Bangkok Post, Chartchai Parasuk, is predicting a Thai financial system collapse in 2025. Thailand's Financial System on the Brink is the title of the essay. Dated 20 Feb 2025. If that were to happen, the Thai baht would likely be decimated.

Quite entertaining. Oliver has some good writers and his delivery is also spot on.

And John Oliver stole that concept from Spy magazine who first referred to Trump as a "short fingered vulgarian" back in the late 80's/early 90s. "Some of its features attempted to present the darker side of celebrities such as Arnold Schwarzenegger, John F. Kennedy Jr., Steven Seagal,[7] Martha Stewart, and especially the real-estate tycoon Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana Trump.[8] Pejorative epithets of celebrities, such as "Abe 'I'm Writing As Bad As I Can' Rosenthal", "short-fingered vulgarian Donald Trump",[9]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spy_(magazine)