JackGats

Colourless discharge = no bacterial infection. Treatment is cortisone spray (Nasonex) possibly combined with azelastine spray. Colourful discharge = bacterial infection.

Recriminalisation of cannabis, taxation of world-wide income, what next? Suppression of night-life? There's an ill wind a'blowing.

Could this be phishing?

As far as I am concerned I didn't retire in Thailand to have to grapple with DTAs. In my case DTAs can only mean I'll have to pay wherever and whenever I didn't have to. Thank you very much I'll pass. I can get laid in TH and that was my main reason to be in TH, but only together with TH being a tax haven. This is because in order properly to get laid I need to keep all my money for myself. Instead of racking our brains out about developments we cannot foresee nor prevent, we could do worse than start discussing alternatives to Thailand. For the infos to be useful we should do so in threads about individual countries (example: "Jamaica as an alternative to TH"). Discussing loads of countries in one single thread will yield no useful infos for forum, users. Each discussion should focus on 1) visas & residency 2) taxes 3) banking. Just a thought.

Labour-Tories-Labour-Tories .... The never-ending binary trap.

So under the present rules (assuming they don't change) you could do the following: 1) stay one year <180 days 2) during that same year, remit a big sum that will last you for years (preferably investing some of that big sum in Thai stocks rather than leave it dormant in a current account) 3) live exclusively off the above liquidities and refrain from any remittance while staying >180 days for years

In this day and age with computers there's no excuse for Police insisting on a paper copy.

Fly to Thailand from where? In my book the best airline is the one with direct flights. No "flying experience" beats a no-stop flight.

Up to now I have stressed to put in at least 6 months and a few days in Thailand each year. I have done so in order to be able to show the taxman and my banks back home, should they wax investigative, that I am an de facto resident of Thailand. Now I am being told I have been overcautious with this. In actuality 5 months and a few days or less in TH would suit me immensely better than 6 months and a few days. Taking a one-month break to Jakarta in January when TH gets overcrowded would suit me to a T. I'll make this my plan if worldwide taxation gets enforced by TH with no exemption for LTR holders.

15 days per year? How horrible! If you still have a mother or a brother living in the UK, how are you not going to spend at least 2 weeks there?

Thai TIN + your passport with stamps should be proof enough. With both you can even get an RO-22 ad hoc certificate from the Thais for a particular year.

I understand all that. My point was you may end up without any documented tax residence, in which case any country where you spend some months, or where you are banking, or of which you are a citizen, is allowed to claim you as taxpayer.

I see in order to avoid getting skinned many here are planning to stay less than 180 days in Thailand. I assume they feel ok doing so only because they're already getting taxed "back home". If your income or capital gains are getting taxed nowhere outside Thailand however, such a tax avoidance scheme doesn't seem sustainable, all the more so because of CRS. As we know banks "back home" have been closing accounts unless a Thai TIN is provided. Providing one was no big deal. But Thailand is now going to get CRS reports about your overseas accounts although under Thai law you aren't a tax resident in Thailand. How long before Thailand replies "Wait a minute, why are you sending us CRS reports about this guy? He is no tax resident of Thailand!" I see nothing but trouble here.

Ah-ah that's why they've been planting banana trees in the vacant plot next to View Talay 6 in Pattaya.

That's where TINs come in.

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.