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I had the opposite experience in obtaining the LTR. Took a total of 3 weeks. Yeah, they didn't understand that the 1099R sent to retirees is on one sheet with 4 copies of the statement of yearly salary which is what they needed. I had monthly annuity payments too but that too had to be multiplied by 12 to obtain the yearly salary so could not be used. We settled on a copy of my annual IRS tax form (1040) which shows the annual salary paid too. Yeah, fortunately I am an American so all my documentation was in English and they had zero problems with that. The officers at the BOI were always extremely polite and helpful in dealing with me via telephone. 3 weeks from start to finish in my opinion was very quick! Hopefully it will be so for most of the applicants.

same thing is happening in other EU states as well as in the USA where taxes paid for by citizens have to go for the care, housing, schools, etc of the illegals. Will eventually break the backs of the citizens for sure. Already the states leading the "take care of the illegal immigrants first" programs are losing hundreds of thousands of citizens each year! If one reads the news regularly then one would recognize that this is a big problem for the "developed "free" states as China, Russia, N. Korea, Iran, Afghanistan don't have an imigrant problem. Sorry to intrude on the Brit problem but just wanted to let them know that the problem also exists elsewhere.

what I fail to understand about users of this forum, how come so many people don't know how to search for a particular subject but instead we users are required to provide a particular address for that info which in almost every case can be found with many additional info-providing sites about the same subject.

Google "internattional schools and tuition in Bangkok, Thailand". It lists the 138 international schools plus their tuition by grade of those in Bangkok. Then if you want you can contact certain schools and ask if they provide any discount for certain foreign passport holders. My daughter went to an International school in Chiang Mai and the discounts they did give were either for certain religious memberships or locals that could not affort the tuition but passed the entrance exam and were given free or lower tuitions. I can't imagine a school providing tuition lowered unless the school is sponsored by a particular country organization but I also know that they sometimes provide scholarships for certain students to keep them returning each year. Good luck - now school and HS are more expensive than many colleges.

As I have said that in my opinion, almost all of us will not be affected by the new interpretation but being an old fart, working and living here a long time, I realize life can sometimes stab you in the back so to speak. I really do not believe I will be affected for at least the next 10 years but then again who knows?

CM immigration officer put the coordinates on my original TM.30 after a couple of years of using it during my annual extension of stay. I didn't have to provide them with the coordinates.

when I did my new p/p transfers they could easily have unstapled the TM.30 report there (CM IO) and included it in the new P/p but they had me run around to the TM.30 office first (5 minutes only) and they stapled a new TM.30. Just saying...The previous TM.30 was several years old at that time. Basic rule is whatever the current IO checking documents wants, must be done.

I agree

I do have the wealthy pensioner LTR - just changed from Retirement O (18 years) - my pension is a US govt pension I know that I have 2 possible reasons for non-assessable income but TIT. If they do in any way tax my govt pension I will leave even though I love it here.

When/if EV's rule the road, then cometh the tax man. Nowadays (US anyway) fuel is taxed and supposedly goes for infrastructure repairs and constructions...so, once gasoline ceases to be needed, states and fed will look to taxing motorists by the miles they drive every year - just wait they'll have to make up those billions of gasonline taxes for infrastructure in some manner and we already know that the govt is tax happy anyway. My opinion.

Not all income is exempt on the LTR. If money is earned in Thailand and is assessable the a tax could be levied. Only foreign earned income can be non-taxed for wealthy pensioner that I read about for my income so if they change that provision of the LTR and still insist on taxing my already taxed government pension then I will be gone but in my opinion this would be a futile income garnering by the Thais that would resonate deeply in the future of foreign settlers.

I personally feel that if the Revenue Department in CH or BKK decides to just tax ALL monies being remitted and then letting the ex-pats file a claim for double taxes or taxes on exempted due to the DTA then I feel and will complain to the US State Department and US Embassy and US Congress that the Thai government is violating the DTA between the US and Thai Govenments and I as an American have been paying my taxes to the US govt for 60+ years and am entitled to be protected by this legally binding agreement. Now if the Thai government decides that they will first cancel these agreements and begin either re-negotiating them or forgetting forever as they lose a bunch of funds from those of us that have already paid our taxes then I will leave even though I hate that thought even. I enjoy life here and know it is not perfect but I as an American have a strong feeling about improper taxes, just ask the British about that feeling as it goes back about 250 years. I really do not think that the Thai government will decide to arbitraruly decide to go against 60+ DTA agreements but again as I have mentioned often, TIT and anything that can go wrong just might. Hopefully, we will get some guidance from the RD soonest. good luck to all suck up that pollution, run those a/c while we can still afford it maybe.

well I was here 50 years ago, spent a year in country and I sure do not remember women running around topless unless a "special" show at some bar.

the problem "at home" now with the invasion from the south, tax collected fm citizens has to go to provide housing, schooling, food, etc for the illegal immigrants. On top of that conside the threat of all the young adult Chinese males pouring in from that open border too - and since their "asylum" hearing won't occur for years, they can travel within the US where ever they please. When the CCP is ready, the US will be fighting within their own borders and with less that desired US troops. Generations have changed but politicians still are useless, time to get some honesty and patriotism back in elected positions and not those selected by the $$$$ crowd. My opinion anyway. Monies for Ukraine are probably too late now anyway and I noticed an article that Putin is advertising for some more foreign troops so even though they have been out numbered from the beginning, the Ukraineans have done wonders. As for Israel, the Palestinians supporting and allowing Hamas to train and set up quarters in the Gaza area has been a festering sore forever and that seems to be why Israel will continue to use the October invasion of terrorists a stimulus to destroy them once and for all. The Palestinians need to be assimulated into other Middle East Muslim countries and should have been last centurey. All my opinion too. I am not a Trumper nor Biden fan but think both will cause doom for USA and the world after November.

The switch to EV in the US reportedly has already hit the brakes as Americans are used to climbing into their vehicle and driving for hours without having to stop except for maybe a "pit stop" and the EV's just cannot do those long trips YET. Also the cost of vehicles is becoming difficult for many as wages have not come up to the losses due to inflation and housing is much more expensive than ever before with taxes being increased to pay for all the illegals pouring in. Once people realize the pollution costs of the materials needed for the EV's they will shudder to think they bought into this by the big $$$$ companies. Just like Big Pharma - over 500 new billionaires duirng the COVID pandemic and people are still paying for that. Now we are learning that foods can prevent and cure illnesses instead of drugs and medicines and have no harmful effects on the human body. Again we were led stray by the Big $$$ companies. China meanwhile is trying to cover the world with their EV's...should be interesting anyway in my opinion.

again, experts, agents, rd officials - will tell maybe what the current situation is, what seems maybe, what seems impossible, or whatever - nothing new as far as I am concerned. The final government paper stating the exact new rules, who is responsible for doing exactly what with the funds remitted what the funds are or are not...until then another several hundred people guessing what these people think in my opinion.

when I watch the local daily news, the main stories at the beginning are those localiies in Thailand that had an overnight/yesterday "Summer Storm" and the flooding and numerous damaged houses. Lookingaround the world news - weather is the main story even with the fiasco in the Middle East. It is either drought with dams, rivers, reservoires or lakes dried up totally or historic rain storms causing historic flooding, landslides, many deaths, tornadoes, wind storms, earthquakes, erupting volcanoes to such an extent that it must seem to many that we are at the end of the world that we used to know. I am glad to be OLD, I can sit back and remember what it used to be, how my generation obviously began the decline and that I can still enjoy life like this. I feel sorry for those generations that followed and that follow even further as the world weather situation continues to change for the worse. At least here, there are certain things that can be done to overcome many of the problems that I can still afford so I have no plans to depart this country that I still love. I realize it is nowhere near perfect but I also realize that very few countries in the world even come as nice as it is here. I have lived and worked in many countries in Asia, in Africa, in Europe and central America - during almost all of those years were very enjoyable but I see those countries too are suffering just as my native USA suffers with no end in sight in my opinion. Good luck to all still here, hope things do get better for everyone. Take care and be safe.

get rid of the competition so to speak

in the mid-90's, gasoline in Thailand switched to unleaded which led to a change in the pollution levels. improved but still horrible. S. Asian burning of forests and use to clear land for farming of sugar caneand corn (used for ethanol and paid for by govt) with very little govt intervention and controls worsens every year, not only because of burning in Thailand but all of S. Asia. Easy to see with the satellite showing the open fires - countries in SEA almost totaly red at times. Govt spending on war basically useless war materials instead of fire fighting equipment (necessary due to remote mountain forests) make a bad situation even worse. I have lived at times in Thailand beginning 55 years ago and can remember vividly flying from BKK to NKP and being unable to see the landscape due to SMOKE from the rice farms. I read yearly that the govt will tackle the issue - it must be the same in the reginal countries as all the citizens have to suffer too yet nothing really changes much. Now statistics are put out by the local media and it is scary as all of us suffer from the pollution. My opinion based on observations and living here for over 30 years (not continuous). I have air purifiers in every room of my houses, sent my daughter to a school that had air purifiers and even closed during periods of high pollution numbers (on line schooling which then helped when they closed for COVID), wear good quality n95 surgical masks when I exercise or go outside and not sure how long I will continue to stay here. Wife owns our house in CM and she is even talking about going extended vacation during the burning season.

say what? how could police even come up withi this intentions of the shooter who fires several times and hits a young girl in the back of neck? sounds like " oh we let the perp go because we didn't have a warrant to arrest him". My opinion is that the police don't want to work uh harder I guess.

Mike did you read the news yesterday that Thailand is or has applied to join the OECD? the report says 7 years, if you get the chance read the requirements for applicant country. Funny and can only imagine the comments forthcoming on this forum.

THE DTA between US and Thai specifically talks about Social Security payments read the DTA

all one has to do is google "LTR Board of Investment" and it will give one the 4 categories of "wealthy" folks.

Mike and several others have spent a good deal of time helping to provide WHERE one may find particulars about the tax system locally. They have also provided where to find a copy of the various DTAs for the 60+ countries with a DTA with Thailand. They have always advised that they are not experts and that agents and experts STILL do not know all the particulars of the newest interpretations. They even have gone to some revenue departments and to some tax "agents/experts" and we see different stories of what might show up. Several agencies or embassies have hosted some experts to try to cover what some issues might be and from some of them we learn that not even all those deciding the final outcome agree totally with some interpretations. Therefore, I thank Mike and the other people who provided me where I could find necessary information on the issues. I learned for myself what covers my and my income, what my government has signed with the Thai government, and have arranged my immigration status to remove any doubt what will happen to me if the RD goes ahead with the proposed tax on monies remitted into Thailand by tax residents here in country. Everyone by now should have read numerous variations to cover their particular status or at least where to find what might be...Again thanks to all those who donated their time and up with some unhappy folks on this forum. But that seems to be the world of today where too many people are not very happy with their lives and don't know how to handle things repectful of others. Again to all who have contributed information on this subject, I thank each and every one. Hopefully we will learn something from the Revenue Department in the near future or possibly not. Final reminder - NOT ONE forum user here or elsewhere knows what the final version of this issue will look like nor how it will affect any of us or all of us. Good luck and hope we all end up happy with the results.

The LTR is advertised by the BOI stating that foreign earned income remitted into Thailand is not taxable if you have an wealthy pensioner LTR that is the advertised benefit. It further states that if you earn assessable income within Thailand you do have to pay the tax. I still do not understand why these questions continue daily/hourly or whatever when NO ONE really knows what the final regulations will be so we all should just wait until that time comes around.