Cabradelmar

The gift threshold for a cash gift between spouses is 20 million THB (in a calendar year).

The tax liability falls on the recipient of the gift, which in this case would be your wife. However, of the amount is under the threshold and it's a gift between spouses, she isn't liable for personal income tax either. Send the money to her bank account directly from your foreign bank account.

Correct, less than 180 days. Accuracy is indeed vital. The day you arrive counts, and everyday you are in country prior to midnight. And it's not when your flight leaves its when you are stamped out.

Only "on occasions that correspond to custom or tradition"... It's a rather limited exemption... Essentially, songkran, chinese new year, and birthday (or funeral) - I can't think of any other openings. But sure, it's an option if you trust your Thai GF. Just be careful if you start taking this up to start giving 100s of thousand THB to a Thai GF on only 2-3 qualifying events each year.

Yep. Child and spouse. Just as I said.

Absolutely not. If you are not a tax resident (having lived here less than 6 months in any calendar year) Thailand personal income tax laws don't apply to you for those years.

Of course... they want to raise anxiety to sell more LTRs. That entire program has been a resounding failure since its launch. Less then 7000 sold and most to NonOs getting off of retirement extensions (under the weather pensioner category). Very few net new takers for any of the other 3 categories.

Nothing new... Anyone who did their research already knows about the gifting tax laws in Thailand (which areof little help useless you are married to Thai or supporting your child with a Thai)... This poor old horse is beat and dead.

Scary for everyone. Wondering if it was a virus/infection that killed him... and was he contagious or not. Maybe just lung cancer or simply heart failure. Cause of death, that's what everyone really wants to know.

Accidentally fell, pushed or jumped (from a highrise building)... Either way, it's not an uncommon occurrence in Potty-ya. Especially for the over 60 set. Indulging yourself with booze, drugs and hookers (then made wifes/GFs) makes for a lethal combination. Especially for someone already suffering mentally from loneliness and lack of purpose. RIP.

If you ride a motorcycle, the onus is on you to get the proper insurances. If you cant do that, stop riding motorcycles, or be prepared to pay your own way out of hospital. It's called self responsibility.

The AG announced just this week they where seeking add'l sec.112 charges (for comments he made in 2015)... And maybe he won't be changed ultimately, but it's all part of the established ruling class' plan to keep him in his place. Let him run free, but let him know he's not free to do as he pleases (politically). He's as hated and feared as he ever was (by the generals and royalist), his money simply allowed him to return to his homeland, nothing more.

Why wouldn't he, he's being released.

Eventually he will admit his guilt once they explain to him that he can get his sentence reduced by half by a simply admission.

They made the same inane announcement last season.

So are you. Learn to comprehend what you read before you comment.

More of something is not always better.

Just because the general's allowed Thaksin to return, and arranged a royal pardon for him on the old charges, does not mean for one minute that the general's (or the royalist) like him (or his daughter - who they successfully shut-out for the premiership, and forced everyone to accept the wholly ineffective Srettha). Clever to coax Thaksin back in, and then figure out a way to crush him yet again while he's in their clutches and unable to flee. Giving him house arrest in a prison hospital was all part of the original plan (and hardly a gift). But the people who don't like Thaksin have not stopped disliking him. MF and PT are D.O.A., and the legacy elite power structure is just letting you know (who's really in control)... and it ain't Thaksin.

RTP and Buddhist monasteries... two of the most corrupt (and failed institutions) in all of Thailand.

What's even more ridiculous is Thailand thinks elephant's are part of their "soft power" (which is the latest gimmick Thais are clamoring over). You are not wielding any soft-power related to fashion (say as does France) with elephant pants 🤣

An Englishman, Israeli and Canadian walk into a bar...

I suspect a misprint... Was probably offered 100k THB, not 3 million THB. I'd take what ever was offered and would still fill criminal charges.

Not as untouchable as he may think... No one is, in the land that has such a twisted sense for the rule of law... The establishment (the generals and royalist) are so afraid of losing grip that they will (at least attempt to) jail, or use the biased judiciary, to squash opponents they see as a threat... First it was Pita and MF, and now it's Thaksin and PT

More tourist from countries with longer VER (visa exempt rule) entry = more condo sales? If condo sales are really increasing, it's probably more to do with long-stay visas and not VER entry.

All this means Chinese tourists can visit Thailand for up to 30 days per visit without obtaining a visa beforehand.