JackGats

Remittance free but with punitive ATM fees.

What if the principle of acquired rights prevail? Existing LTRs tax-free, future LTRs taxable. This is not 100% unlikely. If I were you I'd get an LTR asap. It's a gamble worth 50k baht for sure.

Is anybody here suggesting remitted income might be tax-free for LTR holders while unremitted income might be taxable? This would be the World upside down. This would mean you'd need to have your pension transferred direct to your Thai bank account for it to be tax-free.

This is what I see on their website. Good enough for now ie for 2024. I don't think it is productive to badger the BOI about what will happen post 2024.

Must have been because you were drunk yourself.

The 80k USD are foreign yearly passive income, declared or not. The Thais are not interested in if and where your foreign yearly passive income has been taxed. They only want some official proof your have been earning that money. It just happens that most of the time (though not always) the proof consists in a tax return.

Yes, war is another thing that gets predicted every day. All-out war in the Middle East remember, not to forget a war between China and the US. Meanwhile ... business as usual.

The end of the US dollar, the end of the Euro, the collapse of the EU, the end of oil, the demise of the stock exchange ... Predictions galore, for decades now, still none of them have materialized.

Relax bro, the powers that instill the fear of God in you are not reading this thread. You are not earning brownie points with them for regurgigating their hogwash.

We are lucky Thai babies drink milk too. Otherwise milk would be as expensive as whisky in Thailand.

One Ring to rule them all "What they know doesn't matter". You just inadvertently put your finger on the madness of our time. What they know (and understand and feel and say ....) should matter. It should in fact be what matters most.

I got a TIN free of charge in 20 minutes' time at Chonburi Revenue Office. That was back in 2019.

Bremelanotide has been around for nearly a decade now. It will probably be a non-starter. It is too expensive for a start. It is said to improve both erection (through nitrous oxide) and sexual desire, contrary to classical ED pills like Viagra which only improve erection. But isn't that what Viagra combined with eg cannabis did anyway?

Any sources, or things we can read about this?

Sherrings seem to have changed the last bit on the lower right. The part that says "that is brought into Thailand is deleted). This means worldwide taxation on BC sales for Thai residents.

Do we take the hot women? I thought he Koreans did.

Useful to first learn isolated letters in A FEW different fonts. However the "thaireader" only has "modern font" as alternative to the standard. This "modern font" is essentially the sans serif form of the standard font. Very useful and common but that leaves many common fonts unexplored. A downside of the stories in the thaireader are that they have titles like "The story of the reed and the banyan tree" or "The story of the stork and the fox". Now words like reed, banyan tree, stork and fox can wait for a few years as far as I'm concerned. My memory has no place for them yet. The Aakanee website is down unfortunately, but the texts can be downloaded from the WWW archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608222558/http://www.aakanee.com/thai-illustrations.html The recordings and images have been made available on Youtube: I recommend practicing reading the texts while applying different fonts, then listening to the spoken text after each image. Listening and following the written text with the eyes is also good training.

Interesting. This means that for Norwegians an LTR pensioner visa is not that interesting. If you are Norwegians you should instead contrive to get taxed in Thailand at some lowish Thailand rate.

Obviously, but life is not that simple. There are Norwegians who reside in Thailand and get their income neither from Thailand nor Norway, or they do get their income from Norway but free of withholding tax. In theory, it should not be Norway's business if Thailand relinquishes its right to tax, as it has been doing up to 2024 and will go on doing for LTR holders. But apparently Norway sees it as its business to nullify tax privileges awarded by a foreign country. So avoiding double taxation is, alas, not the "whole point" of a tax treaty. Another point is increasingly making sure taxes are paid somewhere. A tax treaty is not always our friend.

Not true. Most countries do this in fact. Your are confusing with paying taxes to your home country even if you don't reside there. That is not the same as paying taxes on your worldwide income in the country of residence.

Not true. Most countries do this in fact. Your are confusing with paying taxes to your home country even if you don't reside there. That is not the same as paying taxes on your worldwide income in the country of residence;

After learning the Thai alphabet there's a long way to go before you can "read Thai". This is because Thai does not really read left to right (nor right to left). It reads back and forth, back and forth ... Many fonts presented as "handwriting fonts" are only typeface fonts trending towards handwriting. The only genuine handwriting font I have been able to download is the "MN Khaochae" :

Except I read that Norway had been collecting taxes from its citizens living in Thailand for years now. The rationale was that if Norwegians residing in Thailand were not ACTUALLY paying taxes to Thailand, they needed to pay them to Norway. I can do without tax treaties of this kind thank you very much.

Recriminalise cannabis while legalising casinos. More undesirable crowds, less fun. I don't like the way things are going.