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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)

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.