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I don't see anything in there that indicates it is multi-entry with no strings attached. For example, when you get a retirement visa, you have to either pay more for multi-entry ability, or fill out some form and pay a fee on each exit, otherwise I think you have to renew it again when you re-enter.

I don't know why people keep calling this DTA. Is that what they call it in the UK? In Canada we just call it a tax treaty or reciprocal tax treaty. At least that is what the Canada Revenue Agency calls it. These three letter acronyms some of us are not familiar with, depending on what country you are from, cause confusion at a time when there is already too much confusion.

As someone just reading that document for the first time, right away I was confused by the use of TRD and DTA all throughout the document. I know it is obvious to the author and most people reading it, but it wasn't to me at first and probably a lot of other people visiting this thread for the first time. Yes, I eventually found the spots in the document where it defines them. Even though TRD is explained in the first couple paragraphs it was kind of buried so I didn't see it at first. Took me a little while to find it since I tend to read documents like this out of order, looking for the most relevant parts and various key words at first. I would suggest running a FIND/REPLACE and change all those three letter acronyms to their full meaning or use both throughout instead of starting with three letter acronyms from the very beginning. Don't just assume someone is going to read top to bottom, start to finish, word for word, rather than quickly try scan sections for key words or read it out of order. Another point is that I am not sure if DTA is the universal description. I have always understood it as just a tax treaty, or double tax treaty, or reciprocal tax treaty (RTT). Yet another reason three-letter acronyms are not always a good idea.

What if we want to leave the country and come back in? It doesn't say anything about this being a multi-entry so sounds like we would get dinged for another 10k if we did that.

I prefer presidential candidates that are not convicted felons.

Will regular tourists and retirees be able to get that new 180day visa? What if we want to leave the country and come back in? I am guessing that is not a multi-entry and therefore not cost-effective for that?

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Please stop denigrating losers. They deserve more respect than to be associated with that low life scumbag.

Convicted felon has a nice ring to it.

It makes perfect sense, unless you think governments are stupid and don't care about giant loopholes that make it easy for people to evade taxes. The accounting terminology is "deemed disposition". 2nd page bottom right hand side. https://ca.rbcwealthmanagement.com/documents/626408/626424/MovingFromCanada.pdf/94fef533-2eab-4bcd-aed8-7d6507e1fc9c I can only speak for Canada but I would be very surprised if a lot of other G20 countries were not doing the same thing.

I am not an international tax expert and I doubt you are either. What I do know is that most if not all G20 countries have tax treaties with each other and tend to do the same thing on these matters, so I doubt that some of them would allow a tax loophole like that while others would not.

That is not how it works. At least not in Canada. When I apply to become a non-resident for tax purposes, I have to pay taxes on realized AND unrealized capital gains. For example, if I am still holding META or NVDA stock and the current market value is $1000 higher than my book value, I will have to pay capital gains tax on that $1000 difference even though I have not sold the stock and plan to continue holding it after becoming a non-resident.

A lot of people at the Jomtien immigration office are trying to extend 30 day waivers so extending that to 60 days should help make those lines a little less busy.

You have always been able to extend waiver on arrival by 30 days, same as with a tourist visa. This new 60 day waiver on arrival will be no different.

It is rather short notice. However, nothing is being reduced in time or becoming more restrictive, so it would not negatively affect anyone's immediate plans.

Also the multi entry. Unless they are extending those to 90 days. 🤔

As soon as I saw the title of this thread.

Wise just increased their fees for exchanging money for most westerners. Not sure if their ATM fees went up.

Don't let the door hit ya.

That's an odd way to describe a small penis.

Yes, 150-160 is fine for the vast majority of people the vast majority of time. The only time a bigger bike is justified is for lots of long distance travel that may include roads that don't allow smaller bikes. The larger gas tank also helps. Most of the big bike people I see around town don't look like they ever do that. People can and do go long distances on 150-160 bikes all the time. I've seen videos of guys on youtube going from Pattaya all the way to Phuket on a 160. I would never do that but I may go from Pattaya to Hua Hin some day.

Sounds like the same justifications I've heard for making bikes loud and annoying sounding. If you people are so concerned with safety why are you usually wearing salad bowls for a helmet, or sometimes no helmet at all?

I like the freedom that having a motorbike gives me. Sure, you can always take a grab point to point or take a baht bus along certain routes, but you are still somewhat limited doing that and still end up living in a local walkable bubble a lot of the time. It changes how you live day to day and I prefer to just go wherever I want however far and out of the way it is, whenever I feel like it. Also, it's often easier to ride a bike somewhere than to walk a short distance, because of how some sidewalks are such a pain in the ass to walk on. Either because of obstacles or because they are narrow and you have to constantly dodge groups of east Indians or Russians with their baby stroller or whatever

It won't be a retirement destination for westerners until they have a retirement visa for westerners. They are talking about it but nothing concrete yet.