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If by "recently" you mean since 1965, then yes, I agree. Cheers for not mentioning pedophilia.

Article in the Bangkok Post, dated 17 March 2025, states that visa exemptions are reverting back to 30 days. Title of the article is (not surprisingly): "Visa-free stay in Thailand to be cut to 30 days."

You can easily "get by" with just public wi-fi (security issues notwithstanding.....VPN would be a good idea.) Where it can be tricky is if you want to call a Grab or use google maps while driving or something like that while you're "on the go" - phone service pre-paid plans are very inexpensive in Thailand so if you want to guarantee you'll always have coverage..... Additionally, if you want to order things online (Lazada, FoodPanda, et al.) you'll need a Thai number (I think.)

Poop accumulated prior to 2024 is also tax free.

A bit like asking if roses are cheaper on St Valentine's Day, isn't it?

Interesting. You took this in a direction that I hadn't considered when constructing the thread. FWIW, I don't think Americans are much in an uproar about the President ridding the country of illegal citizens. My original thought was that Americans may, at some point, begin protesting about job losses, higher costs, threats to entitlement programs, etc. And that those protests, would in turn, spur the action specified in the OP. Especially if those protests intensify somewhere around the mid-term elections (hence the 18 months timeline.)

Since I have no assessable income, I didn't file. The TRD officials with whom I did not interact all seemed very nice. When my mail was delivered, there was no audit or demand to appear at the TRD. Departing the country recently, no one at Immigration asked me about taxes nor was I asked for the mythical "tax clearance certificate." In short, I found the experience to be relatively stress-free and I recommend it to all other Thai tax residents who have no assessable income.

Title says it all.

Anyone who is concerned that the OP may be accurate might want to log on to their SSA.gov account and download your lifetime earnings page, your benefits verification letter, and your "manage workspace" page, if you've never done so previously. I download the latter two annually (after the COLA increase). (Semi-pro tip: If your earnings record is longer than one page, you can save it as a .pdf file by starting to "print" it, then preview it as a .pdf, then save that .pdf).

The post was intended as a dig at one particular AN poster....which is why under the pronoun section I changed the official definition to read "one anonymous internet user" and under the adverb section it reads "isolated posts on a small corner of the internet." In other words, the "lot of speculation" can be attributed to one particular individual with whom you have much interaction on the topic. Of all people, I thought you would get the joke. Guess not.

Oops, too subtle for you. Missed the point of the post completely, lol. People who post a lot on the tax threads will understand the reference.

lot /lät/ https://ssl.gstatic.com/dictionary/static/promos/20181204/pronunciation.svg pronoun one anonymous internet user "there is a lot of speculation on this topic" adverb isolated posts on a small corner of the internet "he speculated a lot on this topic"

This is starting to get irritating. When are the 3-6 year olds going to get their 10k handouts?

^^ This is the answer.

That's putting it mildly. Many social security recipients in Trump's base electorate. "I never thought leopards would eat MY face", sobs woman who voted for Leopards Eating People's Faces party.

As you have pointed out, if you have no assessable income then you don't need to file. That makes your "lady" wrong when she stated that "if the total is higher than your tax free allowance, you need to file, regardless if they are assessable or not." No, you don't. You can remit non-assessable income well in excess of the "tax free allowance" and never have to file.

Hua Hin has minimal water splashing. It's confined to certain designated areas, for the most part, and those are easily avoidable depending upon where you want to go and what you want to do. Malaysia has none of this nonsense.

If you trust the accuracy of reddit, this poster claims DeeMoney went out of business on 27 Nov 2024. https://www.reddit.com/r/Thailand/comments/1h3e1j2/deemoney_shuts_down_operations/?rdt=56850

Even better, the customer affected said AOT was charging him a 5% cancellation fee.

From the AOT website: "Due to the development of the AOT Limousine system and changes of the car models also the service prices The current reservation system will be available until March 31, 2025 We apologize for any inconvenience caused." AOT has cancelled reservations already in place for April and told customers with those reservations to obtain refunds upon arrival, then to rebook with 'whoever the new service provider will be....." (This is third party information from a frequent traveler web forum.) (Note: I know there are plenty of other options like ARL, Grab, metered taxis, your wife picks you up, etc. Not what the thread is about.)

This has been discussed many times over on AN. It's technically taxable but extremely unlikely to be tracked so.... (Btw, a remittance of income into your Thai bank account is a transaction. So yes, transactions can be taxable.)

Why do people post YouTube videos, as if they are some sort of legitimate reference? Do other people actually click on these?

Price has been reduced. OP was asking 8M THB on reddit.

Why all of the skepticism? They've been doing this for years....and it works every time. By mid-May, the smoke will be gone.

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.