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At this point they want you to be Thailand. They are not interested in your flight, they want you first legally into Thailand. You should first travel to Thailand (on a visa waiver or on your present visa). As soon as you check into your hotel in Thailand, upload a scan of your "permitted to stay" passport stamp as "additional document" as well as your immigration card as the case may be (but I think immigration cards are no longer used). The BIO will then email you to ask in which hotel you are staying, including which room in that hotel. Make sure the hotel declares your arrival to immigration asap. I was invited to pick an appointment on the very same day I sent the info about my hotel in Thailand. They don't send you the appointment, they ask you to pick one from a roster. If I am forgetting something I'm sure some forum member will correct me.
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Point (1) and (2) just mean holders of an LTR visa are eligible for an LTR-based tax exemption insofar as they go on fulfilling the conditions of an LTR visa, the corollary being that they lose the exemption if they stop fulfilling said conditions. This sounds like something that was self-evident and hardly needed spelling out. The question now is: "is this all?".
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The PM was also foaming at the mouth because of the impact on tourism. I theorize the victims were also foaming at the mouth because of the impact they knew their own deaths would have on tourism. So the foaming must be unrelated to the cause of death and is throwing the investigation on a wrong track. Just my 2 cents.
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The first Thai driving license has a validity of two years. Then you can get 5-year extensions. In any case it shouldn't matter as long as your driving license is still valid through the rental (until you return the vehicle). There's no difference between a 2-year Thai driving license and a 5-year Thai driving license, except the expiry date.
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I book cars in Europe and my only valid driving license is the Thai driving license. I book with my Thai address. Why would you want to book with any other address? The insurance comes with the rental. If you lie about your residence couldn't this cause problems if you have accident? I never book direct with the rental brand (Hertz, Alamo, Avis etc.). I always book through third-party websites like Autoeurope. On such websites it's usually clear what the insurance covers. You can opt for total waiver etc. Some providers like rentarcars.com have turned me down as a customer because live in Thailand. Message: "sorry but we don't accept customers who live in your country of residence". You should find out whether the Thai driving license on its own (without the international driving permit) is accepted in the US. It most probably is since the Thai driving license is in English. You should print out the page where it says the Thai driving license alone is OK, in order to have something to show to the rental agency and/or to the police.
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Kamala Harris Surges as Top Choice to Replace Joe Biden, Poll Reveals
JackGats replied to Social Media's topic in World News
Trump must have a big smile on his face then. Victory assured. -
CT scans use X-rays and should not be had too often, but MRI scans pose no hazard as far as I know.
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My Thai sourced income (dividend on Thai stocks) rather complicates the issue as well. I think there's a very low threshold above which we were always expected to file a tax return for Thai sourced income. Since the dividends get taxed at source (withholding tax), most us in the same situation never bothered to file although we were supposed to from the beginning. The fact that some of us receive such Thai sourced income may be the reason the BOI is non committal. The BOI cannot know what Thai sourced income we have. Hence the BOI cannot issue a blanket "no need to file" statement.
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Excessive and unrelenting nasal discharge.
JackGats replied to The Fugitive's topic in Health and Medicine
Colourless discharge = no bacterial infection. Treatment is cortisone spray (Nasonex) possibly combined with azelastine spray. Colourful discharge = bacterial infection. -
Cannabis Supporters to March Against Government's U-Turn
JackGats replied to webfact's topic in Bangkok News
Recriminalisation of cannabis, taxation of world-wide income, what next? Suppression of night-life? There's an ill wind a'blowing. -
Thailand to tax residents’ foreign income irrespective of remittance
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
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 Set to Win General Election Landslide, Exit Poll Indicates
JackGats replied to Social Media's topic in World News
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
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Which is the best airline to fly to Thailand?
JackGats replied to RolandRat's topic in Thailand Travel Forum
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. -
Thailand to tax residents’ foreign income irrespective of remittance
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
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.