JackGats

What can be done is this: your monthly pension, say 7677 euros, lands on your foreing bank account. On the same day or one or two days later, you transfer 7677 euros from the same bank account to your Thai bank account. The bank statement from your foreing bank account shows +7677 euros, then 2 days later -7677 euros. So this amounts really looks like it was sent to TH as soon as earnt/received. I say "looks like" because money is fungible of course. Only drawback is if your pension is a small amount and you do standard SWIFT transfers, which have high percentage costs on small amounts.

No foreign tax credit. Only withholding tax on Thai dividends.

I visited because through my eFiling accouint, TRD was requesting supporting documents I didn't have or didn't know what they were. Like "proof of the tax you've paid abroad", "proof that you didn't import money to TH during the tax years" etc. Note that from some posts I have read on this forum, TRD seldom grants a refund without a fight. The refund proper eventually get sent in the mail of course: they don't hand over cash from a kitty they have in the office.

Most countries now embrace the criminalisation of many aspects of healthy male heterosexuality. Everything is rape, everything is abuse. You're a pedo if you find teenage girls attractive. Etc.

I sent the LTR team an e-mail. I got no reply, which I took as a kind of reply, or at least a bad omen regarding the LTR tax-exemption. As a contrast, during the visa application procedure, the LTR team had always been very quick to answer any query.

Wealthy Pensioner's. TRD showed no willingness to consider the LTR exemption (Royal Decree). In my eFiling I had uploaded the Royal Decree in Thai, the TRD-instruction in Thai regarding said Royal Decree, and a screenshot of "no tax on foreign assets" from the LTR website. TRD staff printed out these 3 uploaded documents because I saw the print-outs with my own eyes in the paper file when I visited the TRD office.

I filed PND 91 for dividends. When I visited TRD in order to get the excess dividend tax refunded, I was asked about my remittances. I hadn't mentioned my remittances in my filing as I had assumed they were tax-exempt as per LTR visa. TRD ignored LTR and went on to tax my remittance. I paid nothing as the tax on my remittance and the refund I was entitled to canceled out. I didn't claim any DTA benefits (I wouldn't even know which DTA, if any, applies in my case). By the way, does somebody know whether you can claim a refund of overpaid dividends if you are not a tax resident of Thailand, ie if you staid less than 180 days?

Yes I know, no shortage of "studies". What I meant is that people don't need emergency room treatment for magic mushrooms (any more than they need it for cannabis overdose). If they think they need emergency treatment it's their own weak-minded imagination, reinforced by the war-on-drug scare-mongering propaganda. To the medical establishment and the warriors-on-drugs, those people are a blessing of course. For "those psychologically compromised" (your choice of words) anything in life beside watching TV is psychologically risky, snorkelling, boarding an air airplane, taking long walks in bear territory, putting money on the stock exchange ...... A UK drug policy maker got himself into hot waters a decade ago by daring to suggest Extasy was just as hasardous as horse-riding (both activities having identical accident statistics). Whenever an illegal drug is discussed, everything gets throw at it so as to justify its illegality. Thirty years ago when you went on a holiday to Bali, asking hotel staff to bring you a magic mushroom omelette was on everyone's to-do list.

Well, you forgot children. Children should be illegal since they lead to child sex, which is the worst thing in the whole Universe.

Magic mushrooms have been illegal in Holland for years now. And people don't end up in the emergency room because of magic mushrooms. Magic mushrooms: Addictive potential: zero Lethal dose: unknown Noxiousness scale: between strawberries and a glass of beer. Therapeutic effect: anti-depressive, life-enriching

Except mushrooms, magic or not - or anything Nature invented - should never be illegal in the first place. That is the point that should be made, not some xenophobic one.

I think one thing one can do is to use the foreign credit card from withing Google Wallet (or Apple pay). Such NFC payments are supersecure since the credit card data are not transmitted with each payment. What I hate about shops in Thailand is that they insist on sticking my Thai debit card into the machine even when NFC would do. Entering the credit card into any machine entails a risk of card cloning from what I understand. Plus, in Thailand they have an array of machines and often don't now which to use, so they try one, then the other ... Often I just tell them "stop" and I pay in cash. I also read it is better to have two cards rather than one in your pocket because two cards interfere with one another when a hacker comes near with a remote data hijacking device. This being said, I've used my Thai debit card for over five years to shop in Thailand and I've never been hacked. Note that often the expats who report having been hacked are expats with a wife. Now if the wifes or girlfriends handle credit cards the way they handle their smartphones (breaking them every 4 months) accidents are likely to happen.

Best time ever in Thailand during Covid.

It seems that where the TDAC asks "please list the names of the countries where you stayed within two weeks before arrival?", only one country can be chosen from the drop-down menu. Can anyone confirm this? This would be a major bug in the TDAC since you can then enter the least controversial country you stayed in with respect to diseases etc.

I had an MRI of the head for headaches at Bangkok Pattaya Hospital. MRI including with contrast agent. You need to book well in advance but weeks not months. Together with X-ray of the chest and blood works, total tab about 1200 USD. MRI seemed to last for ages. It was hard staying put all that long with the creaking noise all around.

"Split time with West" should be on top of the list, not at the bottom ! Results will be worthless IMO.

Israel (Iran, Yemen, maybe Syria too), India-Pakistan, Russian airspace closed owing to sanctions, Ukraine closed, soon there will be no flight routes left at all. Idiots everywhere roaming around with MANPADS. Scary and difficult times ahead for airtravel. So from the screenshots above, it seems even now Northern Pakistan can still be overflown?

I've thought of that. But I'd need to increase my investment in Thailand too much (in 2025 I already transferred 25k euros). I don't feel like digging myself deeper into Thailand right now. By the way, my TRD case is now solved for 2024 as of today. Dividend refund - tax on remittance = zero (in 2024 I only remitted 12k euros). Ahead of next year (2025) I changed my next ticket to Thailand in order to duck the 180 days. So much for the LTR tax exemption on forein income.

You can never transfer a banking App to a new phone like you would any App. The banking App needs reinstalling from scratch on the new phone. This is for your safety of course. At the same time, it means less incentive to buy new phones. I typically use my phones until the battery is no good any more. Because giving my phone (with banking data etc.) to a shop for them to insert a new battery is a security risk not worth it. Better then go the whole hog and buy a new one.

Snow = white. White = white. Not brown, not black. Is that so difficult to understand?

Same grey status as DHEA probably. I remember buying some melatonin from Boots in Thailand, but it was the delayed onset formulation, not much use if your problem is falling asleep.

Quotation from a blogger who has guts: "The grooming gang panic is what you get when you mix the child sex abuse hoax with racism".

Apart from fibers, one thing that works is magnesium oxide (MgO). It has to be the oxide. The magnesium supplements that work to prevent eg cramps in sports are different and are not recommended for constipation. Taken daily, magnesium oxide can prevent your crap from turning to concrete as soon as you skip the veggies and/or the fruits.

I pity the embassy staff having to waste time and energy visiting such a basket case in deportation jail and organise/finance his repatriation. That's what generous immigration and naturalisation policies lead to.

They didn't have any copy cats plans. They stole the menu because of its hilarious English translations.