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You have no idea how creative insurance companies are. Many Anglo-Saxon and Thai companies exclude motorcycle accidents, anyway. But this is a good one from an EU insurance (motorcycle accidents are covered): (Former) heroin addict had an accident. Insurance said, if she was under the influence of heroin at the time, according to our T&C she isn't covered, because her addiction caused the accident. If she was not high on heroin at the time of the accident, she must have been in withdrawal which would not be the case if she weren't an addict - so her addiction caused the accident, again. So, whatever, we won't pay. The girl was a low-class Thai, married to a European labourer. What could possibly go wrong? Turned out, the husband had a nice boss (small company), the boss had a lawyer, the lawyer knew the boss of the legal department of the insurance. Coverage required just a phone call. Lesson: if you have insurance you should have a lawyer, too.

Thai has only 2,864 words: (Disclaimer: sarcasm) Some people count 5 Thai syllables with 5 tones as 1 word - a lack of fundamental understanding of tonal languages. Some count "eat, ate, eaten" as different words. This raises the word count of languages with rich flexion systems (Russian) and makes the word count of some agglutinating languages (Turkish) infinite. Some count an English word consisting of 2 morphemes ("remit") as a new word but would not do this in Thai ("นำเข้า"). We can always reopen the old thread, here is the tax thread. BTW the new interpretation of the law that Por 161/2567 gives, is based on an ambiguity in the Thai language - discussed early in the very first tax thread.

Agreed. I guess they will go after bank remittances first, it's the easiest. And it's the only practical way to bring big sums into the country, especially to buy a condo. ATMs, cash, this is all chump change in comparison.

It's 2 animals, isn't it?

I agree, but have to correct your wording: What you call food is not food. "Edible food-like substances" is the correct term.

Just buy a strip of Zyrtec and try, or is that out of your budget. But I don't think there will be a difference. You could try to find Desloratadine or Levocetirizine (cheap brand: Levocet from Community Pharmacy). Some people get less tired from these. Both will be several times more expensive than Loratadine or Cetirizine.

้นำเข้า is often translated as "import" if that helps you more. Money is not in Thailand > action of ้นำเข้า > money is now in Thailand Thai is a very concise language, it can be very curt and clear, no need for verbose gobbledygook that people interpret any way they want

Some things people post here beggar belief. I keep posting the Thai words they use in Por 161/2567 ้นำเงิน...ข้ามาในประเทศไทย "bring the money into Thailand" Very simple, very clear, and a lot more straight than the weird "remit" that I see native speakers arguing about.

I am confused. You say "179 days in Thailand". Then you are not a tax resident anyway, no need for cash runs.

In some former colonies the language of the former colonial power is now the most widely used language (Latin America). Often, only educated elites used and still use it - not the peasants (India). And sometimes, the language of the colonial power never got a foothold in the colony - try using Italian in Ethiopia or German in Papua or Qingdao.

It's Yawi, a dialect of Malay. Has nothing to do with Arabic. Malay is spoken in Malaysia (called Bahasa Melayu) and Indonesia (where it's called Bahasa Indonesia). It's related to Pilipino (spoken in the Philippines), Malagassy (spoken on Madagascar) and polynesian languages like Maori, Hawaiian and so on. Yawi and Arabic are about as similar as Japanese and English.

Considering his posting history in the health forum, I am not sure OP is trolling or serious. If he is serious (I doubt it), he doesn't need more lab tests, x-rays, MRIs, whatever. These would just confirm his behaviour and make him find more imagined problems. If he is serious he needs some counseling.

Some insurers do cover preexisting conditions if this condition hasn't caused any claims or any necessary treatment (depending on the insurer) for the first years of insurance (may be 2 or 3 years). It's called a moratorium. I am not up to date which insurers do this, it changes too often. Obviously, not all insurers from all over the world call all hospitals worldwide, but for practical purposes, yes, they call all relevant hospitals. And then, what happens has just been posted:

Thx for posting your story again. It only now dawns on me what you are saying: they can flag your passport without you knowing - you know once you are at the airport and can't leave. That's much worse than requiring a tax certificate for leaving.

More mistakes follow when he talks about all kind of different pension systems in different countries, at least some of which he doesn't understand.

I thought the same. But as long as you only remit simple things, let's say savings from before 2024 or regular ss payments, it's actually very easy. If your remittances come from more complicated sources (poster stat comes to mind) or if Thailand introduces worldwide taxation - I would probably leave/ stay less than 180 days.

Read their posts. IIRC one used to work here, stopped paying taxes afterwards, they found it suspicious. The other one had a business. As I said, they are not pensioners from Soi Buakhao.

Those who audited @ballpointunderstood this very well. You are making a very common mistake: you vastly underestimate intelligence and education of the Thai middle class. Many farangs (don't know about you) do this because the only Thais they know are hookers and other lowlife. Another is the quintessential American mistake: people who can't orally communicate in English must be stupid. Example: people say, the new tax rules aim at Thai middle class investing abroad. How many American middle class do invest abroad? Or would be able to do that? Could Americans read an Italian balance sheet and invest in Italian small caps? Would they dare to put money into a foreign bank account? How many Americans even dare to exchange their beloved dollars into another currency (except when on holidays)? Thais are not more stupid or uneducated than Americans.

No. In theory yes, in practice nobody wants you to file. Be sure you have good proof. It's good if the remitted funds come from an account that has no money incoming after 1/1/24.

@ballpointhas repeatedly reported about his audit. Quite instructive. One lesson: don't comingle funds. Another lesson: if your documents show everything clearly, easy to understand, they were not as malicious as in my home country and didn't twist the facts. @Dogmatixtoo. Both are not pensioners from Soi Buakhao, though.

You can be a bit stubborn, you know? I said from the beginning that the TRD's Q&As read very suspicious. They keep stressing that money earned in a year you weren't tax resident can be remitted tax free. And they keep quiet about the other way round - money earned in a year you were tax resident, remitted in a year you are not a tax resident. It makes for very strange reading. The posters discussing it in the tax thread have the same level of information as you or me, the RC is not so difficult to understand. So don't call everybody "uninformed". I came very early to the conclusion that any amount of money can be remitted tax-free in a year I am not a tax resident. Even it's a huge loophole. But I don't want to discuss this with Somchai the tax inspector. Many posters have said, just remit a lot of money in a year you only stay 179 days, and live on it for the next years. Rinse and repeat. Somchai won't like this. If I were to remit several millions, I would remit them in a year I am not a tax resident and I would remit income I earned in a year I was not a tax resident. It's just one more layer of protection, most probably completely unnecessary. That's what I would do, feel free to act differently.

You should be a resident there. Proof depends on which country and which embassy. Vientiane doesn't have this requirement.

It is legal not to file a TM30 if you don't live there - which you obviously don't, you rent the room for one month for whatever purpose but you live in the condo. If the landlord doesn't feel comfortable with it, find someone else to sign the rental contract - you pay the rent, of course. If you are not comfortable with this, have the landlord file a TM30 and after 1 month file a TM30 in the condo again.

In my partner's country, the Red Bull guy would have been charged with murder. He might have received a life sentence (there is no death penalty). (The reasoning of prosecutors and judges goes like this: If you drive the way you did, you accept with approval that innocent people will die. This counts as intent to kill. You kill them indidiously, for base motives. So it's not just manslaughter, it's murder) People have received life sentences, and the verdicts have been confirmed by the highest courts, including the Constitutional Court.

Didn't Thailand extradite a Thai driver to the US recently? (I am not sure)