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I just wanted to subscribe to Spotify with my mobile number. 139 Baht.
Payment failed.
AIS informed me, that following BoT regulations from a couple of years ago, foreigners are not allowed anymore to pay services through their phone bill.
Another great victory in the war against mules.
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22 minutes ago, JimTripper said:
How did that work out, was it a success?
No
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3 hours ago, GroveHillWanderer said:
it also specifically mentions it being for participants in activities such as Muay Thai, Thai cooking classes, sport training, medical treatment, seminars, musical festivals etc.
Cooking classes fit 5 years?
Medical treatment for 5 years?
The thing that is drawing attention on this forum is the DTV for digital nomads, because lots of
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3 hours ago, JimTripper said:
I don't think there are many legit "digital nomads" in thailand. In the corporate world those are legit employees, typically with large corporations, that have allowed certain employees to work remotely. Not really self-employed people. I could see them wanting a verification letter from an employer for the visa.
When they introduced the LTR, the Thai government thought exactly like this.
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Taken literally, the DTV enables you to live here for 5 1/2 years, with border runs every 180 days.
But you must be a digital nomad. The government has already laid out in the LTR whom it considers a digital nomad: someone working remotely for a big corporation, with an above-average salary. Not a backpacker with a laptop, not someone over 60. Not someone self-employed (= unemployed in Thai culture).
At this time, this would basically mean the Russian refugees.
(If the European war expands further or if China behaves even more aggressive towards Taiwan, you could add Poles, Germans and Taiwanese.)
These people do have money that Thailand wants. To give them some security would be a smart move.
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21 minutes ago, racket said:
it's a visa valid for 5 years, allowing stays of up to 6 months or 180 days at a time. After the initial 180 days, individuals typically do a border run to obtain another stamp, granting them an additional 180 days. Is that correct?
Nobody knows, what is correct, because the government didn't give detailed information. Maybe the government themselves are not yet sure.
Many people, e.g. @Maestro, see it your way.
Others, like myself or @HauptmannUK, find it hard to believe that all of a sudden billions of people would have the possiblity to reside in Thailand ( @humbug pointed out that such a visa would make all other visas pointless).
I find 2 arguments from this thread plausible:
1. The details of the visa, who qualifies etc., will be so complicated that the visa will be useless
2. They might restrict the time one can spend in Thailand to 180 days per 1-year-period.
But this is all speculation. Nobody knows.
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On 5/30/2024 at 11:25 PM, Sigmund said:What about the tax ? If they give something now, it's obviously also a way to get it back in tax ? or not ? sure if you stay less then 180 days etc etc etc...but then would that imply having to file more paperwork and hassle and need to show again that one did not stay more then 180 days ?
Retiree home owners who are the good spenders here, are getting fed up with all the red tape, tax threats and paperwork asked by immigration and the bureaucracy, assorted with all the rules that change or are daily made up depending on the mood of the officer in his booth on arrival at Airport or behind the glass counter in some seedy office.
And also will those lovely boys at immigration maintain asking for absurd mentions on health insurance to cover a specific amount, despite the fact that all europeans have compulsory health insurance valid abroad ?
Posters who think a diginom will be tax-free are dreaming.
The dream may come true.
But, as of now, if you stay in Thailand less than 180 days (in a calendar year) you are not a tax resident, and thus have to pay income tax "only" on your "Thailand sourced" income.
It does not matter, whether this Thailand sourced income has been paid into a Thai bank account or a foreign bank account. It also doesn't matter if this income comes from abroad or not. It also doesn't matter whether all your customers are abroad.
It does matter that you work in Thailand, and that is what a digital nomad does. Until now, he may be flying under the radar and evading Thai taxes. As a holder of a DTV (which explicitly says he is "working in Thailand") he is not under the radar any more.
Please read the tax threads.
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On 5/30/2024 at 7:40 PM, Antti said:
It is probably similar to multi-entry Schengen visa in EU. The days stop counting when you exit EU and then it restarts from the same number of days when you come back. So if I'm correct, with this new visa you get 180 days (or 360 days if you extend) that can be used during a period of 5 years.
Smart observation.
Schengen visa also have a rule where you can stay up to 180 days in any given 1-year- period (NOT in any given calendar year)
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9 hours ago, JimTripper said:
It's only good for 6 months a year
But you know that you just made this up.
Having said that, it may be true.
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30 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:
, so why would you think this one would be different?
Because I find it hard to believe that all of a sudden, 50% of the world's population are entitled to reside in Thailand. That would really be a big change of mind.
19 minutes ago, Phillip9 said:Its really not hard to prove you are a legitimate digital nomad.
Very difficult to prove.
And anyway, what is a "legitimate digital nomad"? I know quite a few who are nothing else than backpackers with a laptop.
I agree with you that some way of filtering out "legitimate digital nomads " (whatever that may be) would reduce that 50% of the world population to a manageable number.
It would then be the visa to legalize the Russians here. Maybe that's the whole point.
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10 hours ago, pgrahmm said:
Seoul
Flight time Bangkok - Seoul is the same as LA - NYC.
OP asked "near Thailand".
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The place is boring if you only have a few days.
The people are by far the best I have met in Asia (or anywhere else).
If you are deaf and dumb, and illiterate (in Chinese, of course), you could confuse Tapei with just another Chinese city.
If only a few days, visit Taroko gorge near Hualien (wait until the damage from the earthquake has been cleaned up).
Not many places in the world go from sea level straight up to 4000m, certainly nowhere near London.
If interested in old stuff, visit the Palace Museum in Taipei. When the nationalists fled to Taiwan they carried all Chinese pieces of art from the mainland with them, and what was left in China was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution. So the Palace Museum is the place to go for Chinese art.
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On 5/29/2024 at 1:00 PM, lykes2fly said:
Last time I was there, I think it was Jan 2024, I walked towards the prior station and at the head of the Soi to the right there were courtesy Songtaews that took you to the building. Don't know if that is still available.
Afaik only in the morning.
Haven't seen any last week, I was there twice.
Only 2 motorcycles.
The soi is blocked by construction, by the way
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5 hours ago, jacob29 said:
It's 180 days per year, not 180 days within 5 years
Who says that?
It would make sense, but I have only read
- that it's 180 days multiple entry (on the website of a Thai embassy), which would mean everybody who owns a laptop could live here (which is the stated aim of the visa) for 5 1/2 years with visa runs every 180 days.
- or that you can only stay 180 days once, extendable to 360 days, within 5 years.
Where do you get the "per year" from?
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Your list of 93 visa free countries contains 43 entries, give or take (I have never been good with numbers).
Oh, and I am pretty sure Taiwan is visa free now and will remain so. China and India, too, but they are not so important.
But anyway, thanks a lot for reminding me that I am living in paradise. Somehow I didn't notice.
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16 minutes ago, Sophon said:
Of course you can have the app ready. If customers in front of you take longer than expected, and there is a risk that the app times out, you can just click on another function in the app (e.g. check you account balance) while waiting.
Sure, waiting until the customers behind you remind you that's it's your turn, which you missed because of all this clicking on your app :)
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7 hours ago, john donson said:
the flu vaccine is never more than a gamble of last year what might be hot this year with a high failure probability .
This is quite correct.
But: have you ever known someone with a real bad case of influenza? (People die from it - especially people the age of AN members).
You might want to take this gamble.
But your body, your choice
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2 hours ago, cardinalblue said:
Why is this important? So you want to act the Thai way and put your head in the sand b/f people are higher up on the social pecking order? Typical non democratic way of dealing with an issue in a dysfunctional law and order society
We are in Thailand.
We are not in Kansas anymore.
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Those were 2 places, which one is a rip off?
And: do you know a much cheaper place ?
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7 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:
Sorry, my mistake.
What is not in English is the online tax filing.
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2 hours ago, TPDH said:
If I transfer in savings and income that I earned before 2024, is it still taxed in Thailand?
No.
But better make sure you can prove it was from before 2024
( remember covid health insurance: have the proof signed by 2 directors of your bank)
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Take the one near you
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To consider:
How old are the boys ? Are they minors?
How rich are their families? Richer than you?
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17 hours ago, vinny41 said:
The new version of K PLUS can be used with a mobile phone or tablet equipped with iOS 9.0 or Android 5.0 and higher
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Android 5 - dream on!
You shouldn't believe everything you see on the internet.
K+ can be used with any device you or the technologically savvy bank staff can make it run on.
So, it's always good to bring a handful of devices to your branch, and don't come an hour before closing time, finding a device that works may take some time.
Speaking from experience.
@Chris Daley seems to have similar experiences.
Holiday somewhere else. ideas ?
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Not really.
Some things are more expensive, especially in Taipei. Other things are cheaper. It depends a lot on your spending pattern which one is more expensive.
Biggest cost difference: you don't have to pay for girls (but you won't find a beauty 25 or 30 years younger than you)
I am not talking about prostitutes, but regular girls (you probably couldn't pay for Taiwan prostitutes anyway).
Thai girls know farang are rich.
Taiwan girls know foreigners have no money.