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Yeah this month I sent two high dollar amounts to BKK bank with normal processing and no delay in receipt. Same for all the 20 years I have banked there.

expattax.com has an ad for free printing of the current Thai tax law and also still offers a "free" consultation. Just e-mail carl at that website and he will gladly provide you with your answers. The latest tax decree has yet to meet the press so will it happen this year or not? again, you could get a hundred different answers on this forum about taxes and none may be correct as folks love to guess here what is what. Get a visa that exempts you from local taxes if possible then you could just relax on this issue.

I was assigned to the US embassy 4 different times; while I also lived in many EUR capitals, Asian Capitals, even a couple of African and my good/bad thoughts about all those years of living away from the US. Near the top of my list of course for retirement here - NO cold weather. I have put up with the floods, even evacuated out of BKK in 2011 to Kanchanaburi for 3 months. But, I have lived where there are earthquakes of really strong level 8/9, typhoons, cyclones, hurrivanes, droughts, heat, weather conditions of all types yet Thailand remains a smoother changing nation - yeah, seems a lot more rain lately but that may change too who knows. Food wise, I love Thai dishes of many different types and still seem to be paying a lot less than those same meals in the US Thai restaurants even if the quality remains the same. I don't drink alcohol, nor have I smoked dope or anything along those lines as I like to think I care for my mind and my body. I exercise religiously every day for at least 60 minutes with different types of exercise - weights, walking, core exercises. I eat healthy foods and an no where near being overweight. My BP remains in the healthy region and I check it regularly. I have never been bed ridden or hospitalized since I was a baby though at the age of 30, I did have walking pneumonia but antibiotics wipe it away with no lasting effects. I have run matathons though my body now refuses that distance. I was an avid SCUBA diver (over 500 divers) while assigned to the Philippines - best sea life dives in the clearest of waters. I spent a lot of time on the golf courses around the world, even in places like Italy that didn't have many public courses. Housing here is way much cheaper than in the US, as are vehicle prices though foreign vehicles are taxed way too much. Yeah driving here is definetly scary at times but one learns to be more careful and alert at all times in order to survive. The political scene has been changing since I first began to visit Thailand and stays the same - ever changing! but as an expat, I can't become involved in those deliberations so I don't complain about them. Health care/insurance - I have a US govt sponsored insurance policy for me and my family and while it is expensive, I have had it or the like since 1970 and will keep it until I pass away as the coverage is complete for me an my family. I am on my second family as my 1st wife died later in life of Breast cancer - we had a daughter now older and having a great job and 2nd family with a Thai wife versus US wife, we too have a daughter now 21 a student at the number #1 Thai University and this year going as an exchange student to a top Koean University. Graduated from CM International School reading, writing, speaking, teaching in four different languges, Chinese, Thai, Korean and English. She was accepted at a US college with scholarships but opted to stay in Thailand and on a liberal arts degree wasn't planning a STEM career anyway and the cost is definetly in my favor here! I try to avoid complaining about anything here except for current US politics and forum users comments at times though I do understand that it is an open forum and one only has a very few prohibative comments. I still consider this country to be a paradise, especially considering where I would probably be living in the US if I had retired there.

There are just as many senior Democrats that participated in the Epstein pleasure island too and that is why no guilty senior folks want it released totally! IMHO anyway

Have to agree - a lot of it is coming out in the wash of the tariffs for all to see.

yeah if US bankers decided to stop doing extra work for expats and refuse to extend account for overseas then I would probably depart unless the US govt would send my pension straight overseas then maybe I would still stay here...would have to determine the service and value thereof. Right now I have no worries about taxation of foreign funds (pension only) even if worldwide taxation of income since I would still be protect from taxes IAW DTA and LTR. But who knows what the govt may eventually decide to do on that front. I did read this morning that the government seems to be waking up to the Chinese zero-dollar businesses yet they seem to concentrate on appeasing that govt even though it seems that it will cost them on re-selling Chinese merchandise as Thai-made.

in all the years that I did mail it in, I registered it on day 15 prior to the due date and mailed it. Usually within 3-5 days, i got a reply receipt so no problems ever during that time. Great with LTR means no 90-day reports whatsoever. good luck with your report.

So, what is new with this well-known narcissist, unless one is constantly kneeling before him and mouthing nothing but praise no matter what garbage he mouths daily, then he feels "betrayed" and just like govt employees, fires all of them unless they worship his every demand. Even Putin, he lately has bad mouthed him as Russia just doesn't want to relax on the battlefield yet so now he turns against his buddy - but in the long run IMHO he will return to nothing but praise for all the autocrats of the world! The Epstein files IMHO since it does have a lot on Clinton and I am sure other Dems, DJT doesn't want a full public display because he is most likely named numerous times and it would just be more embarassing hours for him. If anything does get release you can bet his names and names of his buddies will be blacked out! IMHO anyway

Read the requirements - says to send via "Registered" mail 15 days prior to the due date. That way if the mail is slow, the immigration would still get it in the required time frame or if they didn't get it on time since you supposedly registered it 15 days prior to due date you would not have any problems. Eay enough to understand unless one is looking fofr some excuse to open a troll post here. IMHO anyway - I previously did the mail in 90 day reports for many years.

I don't really care what nationality, this foreigner should have his visa revoked and fined or jailed, then deported IMHO!

forms are online from immigration. Just google immigration forms and pick those you need and print them out.

Having a daughter here, tried local schools for a couple of years and definitely not worth it IMHO. Then moved to international school of CM - very positive - some students go to the top US universities. My daughter had scholarships but opted to go to the top Thai University and this third year has been selected to attend a top Korean University for her third year. She graduated from CMIS speaking, reading, teaching in 4 different languages - Chinese, Korean, Thai and English. Also a computer whiz and CMIS taught her to WANT to learn all that she could as we never pressured her. Self schooling totally here in a foreign country would meant that these children might miss a lot of the social interactings which all the world learned about during the COVID pandemic when all were shuttered.

One could say that about all the expats that leave their native countries for a different life. One should not lose citizenship but maybe some benefits such as health care which is shared by taxation of citizens. My opinion anyway as I came here to retire and live better than I could in the US - number one is here there is no cold weather/snow! and living here can be cheaper too depending on what lifestyle one has. IMHO.

having sex with underage women is a crime in most places, some places the ages vary but it is still a crime if an adult has sex with a minor whether he pays for it or someone else pays that price but one still has the sex.,

would not make any difference under the law for sex with a minor ! unless of course you are a politician or someone with even more power!