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@simon43 India Daeng works. I guarantee it. I have heard it used by Thais many times.

@gearbox DTV can only be applied for outside of Thailand so you cannot convert from Non-O extensions. You would leave Thailand and then apply for a DTV outside of Thailand. DTV is not stamped in your passport. It is an e-visa and you hold it in pdf or paper form separately. There is no visa in passport. (Some early adopters do have a visa sticker from SEA embassies.) Therefore you can enter visa exempt if you wish to. Just don't show the Immigration officer the e-visa printout. However, many years from now if you want to change back from DTV to non-imm O, the easiest thing to do is to get a non-imm O outside of Thailand and enter with that. The driving licence issue is unsure. Some have been able to renew a 5-year with a DTV.

The Alpine Golf Course. The saga that never dies. 1971!!! Incredible.

@Wyabcp You may find with a savings account, statements are annual. The statement needs to be recent for the application. This may cause you an issue. e.g. if the last statement is 7 months ago. If this is the case, the embassy are flexible if you lay out the situation for them in a polite covering letter. With respect to proof of address, they may want utility bill too.

You don't want to go to a public toilet in India. I wonder if this was their entertainment for the evening having tired of 7-11. A last hurrah.

Great news for this vastly overpopulated planet. Well done, once again, the women of Thailand. Keep doing what you are doing.

I don't think they ask for an actual ticket so you can just select a flight in the future on your DTV application. They didn't on mine anyway. However, that was London. Once the DTV has been successfully obtained, it begins from the date of issue so you can use any flight. An earlier poster got his in 3.5 days. Since the advent of e-visa, I don't know what they ask for in Ho Chi Minh to prove you are in Vietnam. Hotel booking? Passport stamp? Picture of you in Vietnam? You would need to ask them.

Stick a second visit to Birkenhead on your bucket list. You won't regret it. I have heard there are some retired footballers selling cheap weed! 😀

That doesn't look like the Phetkasem highway.

Ho Chi Minh City has had some success stories. You may have to stay in Vietnam for up to 15 working days waiting for an evisa application but probably a lot less. I am not sure where you are transferring the funds from and to and why. Are you transferring it to a Vietnamese bank account?

@Andrew65 You need to quote @Burma Bill not me. He is the one who wants the Wirral back in Cheshire. He is the Metropolitan County denier. 😃 I bet you appreciated the return of the CH41 postcode, didn't you Bill? Go on, admit it. 😀 I can read your mind. Dissolve the Liverpool City Region, block up the tunnels, both of them! It can all be achieved if only the political will is there. The people want it.

When the Chinese immigrated to Thailand from the famine-stricken villages of Kwangtung and Fujian, I bet they could not believe their luck. No more eating bark, women take your pick, land a plenty and a local populace ripe for the taking.

For reference It has not been in Cheshire since 1974. Been out of the UK a while, Bill?

Nobody does mullets like an Aussie. Bogan is as bogan does.

I don't particularly like Angela Rayner but this post makes perfect sense as does this policy.

If they did, they never mentioned it.

I think it was use of a foreign credit card which is de facto remitting of funds to Thailand just as withdrawing cash using a foreign debit card would be. It is the remitting of funds which is key to any liability. However, I repeat my point that very few retirees here will have need to file a return let alone pay any tax due as i) most will be remitting funds derived from income paid in previous tax years and ii) the Double Taxation Agreement will credit the Thai tax due down to zero if any was owing in the first place. That is why whenever anyone on here asks the Revenue Dept, they tell them they don't need to file if their income was taxed overseas. They know it is a waste of their time as very few will have untaxed foreign income that they remitted to Thailand in the same tax year as it was paid to them. All a fuss about nothing with the tax lawyers trying to get everybody to panic.

This thread is primarily aimed at those not working in Thailand, chiefly retired and now worrying about their foreign income being taxed. When I was on a work permit, there was no need to file a tax return. However the employer may have had to show tax receipts. That was all done by the employer. But I definitely did not file a tax return and my WP and extension was renewed every year without fail. This must be a new thing that you are referring to.

@Neilly How about that! I never would have thought it. On occasion, it has taken me 5 to 10 seconds to realise and like a plonker I have been going down the road with my hazards on.

It is slightly more complex than that. SA 106 is supplementary to a UK tax return. If you are completing an SA106 you are completing a UK tax return. You need to have foreign income AND tax needs to be owing on that foreign income. This applies both to foreigners and UK nationals who are resident in the UK for tax purposes. It is irrespective of nationality. If no tax is owing, you will probably find HMRC will de-register from self-assessment and the need for a return if this was the only reason. We are getting very off-topic.

There are specific situations laid out by HMRC that mean you have to complete a tax return. Property income is one of those situations. There is even a helpful government app which determines whether you need to complete a tax return. BTW, it is not "any income". That is for property income. For the self-employed, who outnumber landlords many times over, the threshold is annual turnover in excess of £1000.

Okay, civil service pension, that explains it. Thanks.

This is not correct. If you are paid under PAYE, not in receipt of child benefit, not in receipt of investment income of over £10,000 p.a. and not having a total income of over £100,000 p.a. HMRC will actively de-register you from self-assessment and tell you NOT to complete a tax return in future years. I can assure you this is absolutely not tax evasion and HMRC want you to do this. There is no "legal requirement in the uk to report taxable earnings above tax free limits annually". The thresholds for having to complete a tax return (usually £100,000 for PAYE taxpayers) are far higher than the personal allowance (£12,570). I have completed tax returns for many clients in the UK and similarly told many that they should save their money as there is no need for them to complete a tax return.

Where is the tax evasion??? I am referring to pointlessly filling in tax returns when a) there is no legal requirement b) there is no tax owing There is no tax evasion. The answer was in response to @cjinchiangrai 's question about self-assessment in the UK.

You specifically asked what they do in the UK! I provided a detailed and accurate answer! The cheek of you!