JackGats

Can you get this online? Or will it be yet another "certificate of residency" charade and a half-day at the IO? Last time I exited from Thailand I asked to go through the booth to have my passport stamped and I got my stamp. How long this will go on being possible is the question.

Quote from the article: "By working together, the goal is to make the festive season safer for everyone travelling within Thailand. " So only the festive season is it? Outside the festive season it will be road carnage as usual.

Returning to the tax debate, I got a quote of 20k baht "plus 7% VAT, excluding transportation and government fees" from Siam Legal for the filing of Thai tax. God knows what "transportation" means here. Trips of the agent to the TRD? There's a website called "expattaxthailand" (not sure pasting the link is admissible) with a reasonable quote for people with straightforward cases. Here's a screenshot:

I got the green light to choose an appointment on the same day I uploaded my passports with the stamps.

All people sentenced for victimless crimes like drug crimes, and most sex crimes. A lot of people actually. About 80% of jailed individuals.

"Latest travel information" certainly refers to your entry into Thailand. No appointment is possible unless they know you are in Thailand and how you entered. You must upload the page with your entry stamp. They will also want to know where you live in Thailand at the time you book the appointment with the BOI. They will want to know for example which hotel and which room in said hotel.

I got all kinds of questions to be answered online but it was from my broker's (Bualuang) and it was some 8 months ago already. Note that forms like Form W-8BEN are only relevant if you own US shares. It seems Thai banks are prone to send out forms even if the forms have no relevance whatsoever.

So the problem with Thailand is dildo merchants and "aromas" isn't it? Well, well, well ... and poor me thought it was plastic refuse and dangerous road traffic.

Mine knew I didn't want her to have implants. She did go on and have them all the same, paid with her own money of course. I feared they might turn out ugly like most tit jobs I have seen with these girls. In fact they turned out surprisingly good.

I'm sure if you get in with your elderly mother they will not object. Now if you have just a "friend" in tow they might frown

It can start causing pain and getting bigger (because of the friction, callus tissue). If you have it taken out I advise to go to some kind of surgeon specializing in penis surgery or cosmetic surgery. I had one removed years ago and some of it must have been left behind because I have a hardened whitish scar that will never go away. I had it removed by a dermatologist. I'm sure the removal could have been better performed.

I know tax returns are not the only proof of income accepted by the BIO. In my case annual pension statements from the entity paying out my pension were accepted. In your case the problem would be how to get clear print-outs of the regular rent payments showing they have been a regular source of income and are likely to remain so for some time. If your bank statements are in English so much the better, otherwise translation is a further hassle.

I'd have thought banking apps had no problems with VPNs nowadays. After all, it's in the bank's interest for user to connect through a VPN when they're on an unsafe network (like public WiFi). I have no problems connecting through ExpressVPN wherever I am. This doesn't mean I don't have problems with banking apps, however such problems as I have are not made worse by the VPN. One of my banks has an app where I can allow the app to 1) detect the IMEI number of my smartphone and 2) my phone location. These are apparently added security features. Of course number 2) means I cannot fool my bank into believing I am somewhere else regardless of what the VPN simulates.

Plenty of such derelicts locations in the southernmost provinces. Much was built there for tourism, then went bust following to the bombings. You can drive along beaches lines with ruins of hotels, resorts, restaurants, lodges

The editor tricked me again into duplicating my post. Well done editor!

Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean the Belgian bank sent the CRS report to Thailand? Normally this is done automatically if the Belgian bank has you down as residing in Thailand and if you provided the Belgian bank with your Thai TIN. It is automatic with no need for Thailand to "ask" for it.

Maybe the person you call an idiot needs a tax return to show to the tax man or the bank back home should they ask. A nil tax return is not such a bad proposition.

You mean "should I tell my friend that his now girlfriend was my lover before he got his operation".

I once bought a TAP flight (for someone else) on Trip dot com. I was impressed. I got very frequent reports about the status of the flight (check-in open, boarding at gate X, flight departed, flight landed). I had never been so fully informed about the flights I booked for myself direct from airlines. P.S. I was notified by Trip dot com, not by the airline. In order to get notifications you may have to run the app on your smartphone, even if you booked through the browser. Why book through Trip dot com and not directly from TAP? Because TAP didn't know me yet and I was in a hurry. Had I tried to book direct on the TAP website, who knows what hitches there could've been (credit card rejected, addresses in wrong format etc.). As it was, since Trip dot com knew me and my credit card already, all I needed to supply was the data of the person I was buying the ticket for.

I am an LTR holder but I want to file taxes for 2024 on the basis of the dividends I earn from my Thai broker's account. Has anyone any knowledge of an agency who could file taxes for me in such a simple case. No need to file remittances, no need to mess with DTAs, just the Thai dividends + a cover letter explaining I have an LTR and am thus exempted from taxes on my foreign income as per Royal Decree. I don't want an agency that tells me "you don't owe any tax so no need to file". I want to file and get a tax assessment notice, if only one that says "no tax owed".

My fear is that the Thais would reply to the CRS report: "Please don't send us CRS reports about this person as he/she is not a taxpayer in Thailand". Thus the CRS can be a formidable weapon to expose individuals who pay taxes nowhere. Whether Thailand is already advanced enough in its commitment to the CRS to send such feedbacks is an open question.

Indeed the problem lies not with RD's but with banks. It's banks we mostly have to deal with, not RD's. Would we be committing a crime if we gave a Thai TIN to an offshore bank or broker while at the end of the day staying in TH under 180 days? Good question.

Indeed this tie-breaker aspect is reiterated on this webpage (in German, search for ""Staatsbürgerschaft steuerpflichtig"): https://staatenlos.ch/lifestyle/7-irrtuemer-der-steuerpflicht-in-deutschland/

In my opinion what he was doing was legal, in that he couldn't be charged with tax evasion. However, he could be claimed as a taxpayer by some other country, like his country of citizenship or the country where he was banking. It would be a civil lawsuit, not a criminal one.

Not if you live in hotels or very short-term rentals anyway, like I do.