Lorry

Once I consider someone my stable gf (not a fleeting affair) I want her to have the same medical treatment that I would choose for myself. I don't care how much it cost. I haven't met a girl yet whose treatment I couldn't easily pay. I am quite stingy about everything else.

His statement regarding how countries define residency is not too bad. In Thailand, it's defined as being in Thailand more than 179 (not 180) days in a calendar year. Many other countries use 183 days. Many countries use ways similar to what he said, just ask @statabout Germany, he has mentioned it many times.

This is all very nice. And when I was young and naive I studied these things in detail and believed them. Now I have learned what banks and tax offices actually do in reality, and how little relationship there is to all these nice rules.

Ask some gringos in Latin America about this

Yes, that was my general feeling too... There were posters on AN proud of the high interest their USD account in Cambodia had, I always felt this was completely crazy

@Raindancer is correct in that a change of registration at a new government hospital does not necessarily require a change of tabien baan (I, too, know Thais whose tabien baan doesn't match their hospital registration). Personally, I have no idea what's a working procedure in this case. I suggest OP follows Raindancer's advice, as it wouldn't involve the landlord.

"Mandatory health insurance" - that's the point. Countries from your list like (in your order) Germany, France, Spain, Portugal or many others like Switzerland, Austria, or, closer to home, Taiwan, have free healthcare if you pay their mandatory health insurance. It's not enough to be a tax resident. We all know how popular (among farang) the Thai government's idea of mandatory health insurance for foreigners was.

She knows that she would put the owner in a position where the owner has to make up some face-saving excuses that she and he know are not true. In places like Bangkok or Pattaya, where many or most people rent, landlords don't usually add their tenants to a housebook. And obviously not, if the rented place is an apartment (as with many working-class people) - the owner of the building would be busy adding or deleting tenants to and from the housebook all day. So, the much-touted free healthcare for Thais does not really exist (or only to a very limited extent) for the millions of migrants from the countryside working in the cities. Having said that, it isn't completely impossible to get into a house-registration in Pattaya, but it requires persistence and maybe one has to look for another living place.

Correct. But her friends will have the same problem.

Many developed countries dont give healthcare to tax residents. Go look it up. Not my job to educate you.

Long article in the NYT yesterday about this aspect. The Assange story runs contrary to this rule and instilled fear in the media, including the NYT.

I think I saw him at the 7/11 at Nana, buying condoms

I found a piece in the business section, which is rather descrptive, about how taxation used to work before 2024, how now, and how would worldwide taxation work. It's from today. That's the one?

Not in any country I know of

Are you talking about the article in the Bangkok Post, dated June 24?

Me too, but I don't have specific reasons except my general impression of Cambodia. Foreign friends who moved from Thailand to Cambodia think I am prejudiced. Can you name specific reasons? BTW if asking for brokerage, too, then I really wouldn't know any respectable place that's not in FATCA/CRS

Taiwan is not China, they have their own laws

I think you are more familiar with CRS than I But "where I would like to bank" may pose a problem. A friend of mine wouldn't like to bank in Germany, others wouldn't like to bank in the US...

Now we arrived at the question "how much can you live on?" Of course, one can live in Thailand on 235,000 a year - many Thais do. If you live in Issarn and rent-free, it's actually easy. But it doesn't matter at all whether Mike Teavee can do it or Ben cannot - it matters what the TRD thinks. And this we don't know. BTW "quite large savings" is very relative. I know farangs here who think 200 B is a lot of money. I also know farangs who have 5 or 10 or more MB in their Thai bank.

That's what I fear.

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2024/06/04/2003818851

What are you doing in Thailand, then? The RD is not the first one to treat you as an ATM. This starts with the first taxi ride from the airport, continues with the girls who love you so much, and ends with the government hospital charging 250,000 for the last 24 hours before you died. The RD has been an exception so far.

All this paper is expensive, somebody has to pay for it

Of course, there is a deed. But it is the deed for the whole building and the office staff, with whom you sign the contract, probably doesn't have it. Deed = Chanote

How do you arrive at 600,000? For a single tax payer (not filing together with wife): 60,000 personal deduction 150,000 tax rate 0% So, 210,000 are really safe. If you are over 65, add 190,000, that allows you to remit 400,000 without paying taxes. If your (remitted?) income is a pension, you can add up to 100,000, and everything else is more complicated and depends on your individual circumstances. See the tax guide. Question at @Mike Listeror whoever knows it: the 100,000 tax free because it's a pension - is this only possible if this pension has been remitted?