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I wasn't there, so I only know what the media reported. But I am sure you were there and know better. Driving ban is very funny, she was here on holiday, studying in LA. I don't think anybody in the US would care about a Thai driving ban

I asked an honest question. Political correct English is often very difficult to decipher for me. It seems from the answers - even they don't really answer my question - that I am correct? A transgender woman is a katoey/ladyboy/person assigned male at birth? (Or is it a woman/person assigned female at birth who identifies as male?)

I guess the people on whose suffering this "success" is based would not call it "success ".

Language question (serious): What is called "transgender woman" in politically correct speech is a ladyboy, correct?

I was never told I have to report every 90 days when I got my visa. You may slowly discover that Thailand is a foreign country, they do have their own laws, own currency, own customs. And they generally expect people to know the laws and rules and to follow them.

Your point is, if you have income in 2024 and remit money, TRD might not let you choose which money you remit? Income from 2024or savings from before 2024 or gifts? But that's why people use different accounts for all these things. So it's really not a choice, it's a verifyable fact whether they remit gifts/savings or current income. I agree that TRD might twist things the way you say it.

If you comingle both funds by putting them into the same UK account, it's unclear. We don't know whether TRD will use FIFO (first in, first out - if they do, your remittance would be savings) or another way. Discussed many times in the tax thread, often mentioned by @stat

Hard to believe if you have USD or EUR, or a similarly popular currency. If they pay you half a baht more for your currency than Superrich, it would be cheaper for them to buy the currency from Superrich, not from you. At Superrich, the spread of common currencies is less than 50 satang, more like 15 satang.

Read the first tax thread and you will see that it's (surprisingly) unclear. Discussed at least on 2 occasions. I know it's "blindingly obvious" if you follow the (letter of the) law.

If his wife doesn't have any income, 500£ (probably even 5000£) are not over the tax-free threshold. And for these sums, TRD will not run after her and ask her where she got the money from (she could always say, she did a bit of freelance for rich customers). Now, if he gives her 5m £, that's a different story. Of course, it's tax-evasion.

Wrong.

Praewa killed 8 (or 9?) Thais (no Laotians). "555" (her words). She was 16. Her "punishment" was a couple of weeks community work. But she didn't even do that.

That's illegal (they are obliged to treat an emergency for three first 72 hours) but very common. There is a big private hospital near the airport on Srinakarin Rd (not Samitivej) that let a young Taiwanese die like this a couple of years ago.

This may be what they do in the future. It's definitely not the law right now.

It's well known that a certain demographic comes again and again to Taiwan. It's visa exempt, and (so far) immigration doesn't give you a hard time like in Korea. You can see them on the plane. Not exactly for the adventure, and not exactly for ไปเที่ยว Only requirement: must be as white as possible.

To tax these things (gifts, income pre2024) would be a blatant breach of the law, and go against all public statements of the TRD. It probably wouldn't go down well with many foreigners. It is one thing to introduce rules of taxation. It is another thing to contravene these rules and just impose taxes on foreigners arbitrarily. That doesn't mean it can't happen. There are very big countries where the government arbitrarily takes foreigners as hostages, and people still go there.

I don't doubt it. This is what tax advisers tell people who want to gift money to their Thai wife. Gift it to her in by remitting it into her foreign bank account. And why should John be forbidden to receive a gift from his mom? A friend of mine plans to remit inherited money (from his mom) (less than the threshold of 100m) - I think it's not assessable, like gifts are not assessable. Yes, he does have the paperwork, and his mom is really dead. The funds are not comingled with anything else. And john should have the necessary paperwork, too (gift contract, stating amount, time and occasion of gift)

Afaik time limit is 2 decades. PS but I really don't understand the whole idea of "savings". The time limit is the statute of limitations. 10 year old income is income. And taxed as income. Simple. TRD seems to follow this rule, too. Statute of limitations in Thailand 10 years.

That's how it's done in my home country.

I have never quite understood what all these posters talking about "savings", related to taxes, mean. You evade taxes, that makes it savings, and you are out of the woods??? Never mind. (I figure it's one of those British idiosyncracies like non-doms, imperial fluid ounces and quarter miles (sorry if I confuse things)) This whole notion doesn't exist in my home country. I am not Thai.

Thx. So it seems my idea wasn't so good (I am at CW)

I would try also not to be tax resident in the year I sell the house. This is a precaution, not necessary according to the letter of the law. It stems from the unclear formulation in TRD's Q&A. They stress several times that income from a year you were not tax resident can be remitted tax free. The answer for the opposite question (income from a year I was tax resident, remitted in a year I am not tax resident) is conspicuously absent. Discussed in extenso in the tax threads - we just don't know.

Interesting theory, and maybe it would work. But I wouldn't want to explain this to TRD. I very much suspect they would laugh at me. This sounds much better to me. A very clean solution to the question of gifting to Thai wife. TRD might still say, oh, it's really money you use once the money is in Thailand. So, just as a precaution, Thai wife could set up a separate account in Thailand where she keeps her gift, and then use the gift only for her personal expenses (paying for her own medical expenses, supporting her parents, buying land (not for your common house), paying her airline ticket or her lottery ticket...). Not for shared expenses of daily living.

If I skip a 90days report and later leave Thailand, immigration doesn't give me a fine when I leave. This far I know. What happens if I come back later and then go to immigration for my yearly retirement extension? Do they care about missing 90day-reports from before my last trip abroad?

For this reason alone, some people have 5 accounts. OTOH, some men want to have their own account that the wife doesn't know about. Many Thai husbands deliver their salary to their wife. And a smart girl will have a separate account for every sponsor, just in case.