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It is possible; voluntary contributions can be made under Section 39 of the Social Security Act B.E. 2533 (1990). You need to have been employed by a Thai company and have been paying social fund contributions for a minimum of 12 months before your date of retirement. You have 6 months after your date of retirement to successfully apply to your Social Fund office to make voluntary contributions. The monthly contribution/payment you must make is 432 baht per month, and it will need to be taken from your Thai bank by direct debit (which means you will need a Thai bank account). As long as you keep paying the contributions, your coverage will continue. This is especially helpful if you intend staying in Thailand in your older age as health insurance of any kind can be really expensive or even impossible to obtain at older ages. Just do not let your bank account run low by mistake and miss an automatic payment. It depends where you are, as some Social Fund offices are quite used to this scenario, but others will not have encountered this before and will mistakenly believe that a non-Thai can not voluntarily pay to maintain their social fund status.

My previous post was about non-Thai citizens who are tax resident in Thailand, ie those in Thailand over 180 days. Can you see how in all of the legal loopholes I mentioned nobody pays the bill in Thailand. You previously said: In all of the examples I gave in the previous post the credit card bill wouldn't be paid in Thailand. So would there be any income tax liability the the money spent on the credit card using the examples I gave in the post above?

I do see where you are coming from, however there is currently no effective way to tax money spent on a foreign credit card in Thailand. Even if this was the case there are way too many ways to legally avoid any such tax. For example, what happens if you visit Laos for an hour and pay your credit card while you are there? Or what about if you pay your credit card while you are on a boat 13 miles offshore? What if you pay your credit card while you visit a foreign embassy in Thailand while you are queuing up to get a visa application form? What about if you pre-load your credit card when you are not in Thailand and then spend the pre-loaded money in Thailand? There is no bill to pay. What if a trusted person had access to some of your funds in the UK and paid the bill for you? What if the trusted person paid the bill with their money, and then you repaid them at a later date? What if you repaid them in the next tax year? What if you had a direct debit set up with your UK bank to automatically pay your credit card in full each month? What if you were a supplementary card holder on someone else's account and they paid the bill for you? In none of these cases would you be paying the bill in Thailand. There are so many holes in this that it would be a nightmare to implement even if this spending was considered income in Thailand.

At the minute Thailand is not taxing worldwide income, so no problems there. Perhaps in other countries, but not in Thailand, and that is what matters.

Yes and no. You must remit foreign currency to Thailand, but you do not have to remit the same currency as the country you remit it from. Also, you do not have to remit the same currency as your nationality. As an example an American could remit Euros from Japan, a German could remit USD from the UK and a Chilean could remit Malaysian Ringgit from the Turks and Caicos Islands. All of these are acceptable. This is because the Thai government wants foreign currency reserves and they are not too fussy about what foreign currency they hold (although naturally the major currencies will probably be remitted more than minor, obscure currencies).

I added youtube videos of the Home Secretary making his statement here:

NHS surcharge to be increased to £1,035: Family visa financials to be increased to £38,700 starting spring 2024:

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Villa have Heinz 310g for 149 baht.

1. You must send pounds sterling, and it must be exchanged into baht by a bank in Thailand. Do not, under any circumstances, get your British bank to send Thai baht. 2. Your bank can transfer any amount of money, but perhaps not by using your banking app. Call customer services and see if you have to go into the branch to complete the transfer.

Moved to the Marriage and Divorce forum.

Thai Airways accepts PayPal: https://www.thaiairways.com/en_TH/Terms_condition/payment.page?

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The yellow colour of the ATM is very indicative of it being placed there by a bank. That, and there are very very few third party ATM machines in Thailand.

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What part of Thailand is the house located in? What area would you like the contents stored?

There is often a shoe repair man who sits in a doorway very near to where Sukhumvit 11 joins Sukhumvit Road. You will find the exact spot by clicking this google map link: https://maps.app.goo.gl/jDDrFmqATsVFKtxf9 No idea if he is any good though, although he has been there a long time.

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Moved to the Home Country forum.

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Sorry, I did not realise that.

As a single person you would receive an allowance of 100,000 and a deduction of 60,000. Total income would be 12 x 30,000 =360,000. Deduct 100,000 and also deduct 60,000 leaving 200,000. The first 150,000 is not taxed. The remaining 50,000 is taxed at 5 per cent. 5 per cent of 50,000 is 2,500 baht. Revenue Department information regarding personal income tax can be found here: https://www.rd.go.th/english/6045.html

2,500 baht per year, using standard allowances and deductions.

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