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We soon arrive at the point where a 90-days run out of the country is easier than a 90 days report. It's definitely more fun.

I used to file online before they had the new system, it worked. So with the new system it won't work?

People the age of AN posters do get vaccinated in Taiwan. Because they know. People in a hospital, staff, patients, visitors, wear masks 98%. Because they know. It would be good if you knew, too...

I didn't file a TM30 last time I came from abroad (April), no problem. I was at CW a bit later for Visa extension, no problem. I haven't filed a TM47 yet, will that be a problem because the TM30 is missing?

PS for the TIN you don't need a CoR, but some proof of Thai income has until now been necessary. The easiest is usually the interest from your bank book. Go to your bank first, tell them you want to get your 15% withholding tax on interest refunded, they will print out a form for you (up to three years back), take it to the tax office and apply for TIN and refund. In Thailand, you don't get a TIN just for fun. You need a reason: pay or refund taxes.

1. No 2. No Done both

That was another poster. I agree, 4 or 5 years is too long. Same for regular SIM cards. A card that you think expired last year (because that was supposedly the "end of validity") may still be registered in your name.

Where did I mention that??? Happens a lot. More convenient for the buyer, he can immediately start using it. AIS doesn't like this practice,

You can also call the TRD call center, the number has been mentioned before, iirc 1161.

That's the theory. The reality is that providers may extend the validity of your number for a year more or so, they consider this a service for you (and hope you come back). Of course, you don't know this. So you don't know how many SIM cards a provider has in your name. The provider (at least their staff who has contact with customers) doesn't know either how many SIM cards they have registered in your name. I asked AIS. Their answer was very different from reality. What their back office is doing, nobody knows.

This is the correct answer. I'll hold on to mine, too. They issued pretty much the same notes in a very big format, too. Like A5. I have been instructed by gf to look out for some. Any ideas where to get them?

If she meant to wait until October and then get the northern strain (as PPMMUU suggested) that's what I am doing (I am in a similar situation)

Can you live on 60,000 a year?

I don't know. I guess they report somewhere, but probably not (yet) the TRD. But what if they report to the TRD in a year or two, and you are found out (again maybe a year or two after that)?

They are not purchasable in Thailand. Zero chance to get decent pain management outside a few hospitals. Some common pain killers are not marketed in Thailand, and even tramadol has become hard to get. Outside the hospital, cancer patients in Thailand usually get paracetamol (there were threads about this in the past). They are in terrible pain.

I go back. Treatment and care much better, especially everything that's not done by/in a hospital: aftercare, physical therapy, "accessories" and simple things like a wheelchair or wheelchair-accessibility. I dont have the money to pave all the pavements in the neighborhood in order to make them wheelchair accessible. Things like that, there are many, many more.

I try to order one after another, not several packages at the same time. Otherwise I myself usually get confused

Is that just what youth think or is their a rule somewhere?

They don't know this. Even in far more digitalized countries. But they have other ways to get you. Auditing 10 years back is one of them. Requiring a tax certificate to leave the country or to extend a visa would be another one.

What do you do to prevent mosquitoes from breeding (thinking of dengue)?

ad 1: maybe you don't know it, but there is preventive healthcare in Thailand. Starts with immunizations after birth. ad 2: Thailand is a higher middle income country

The "crap" didn't come from the lungs but from the airways. That's why it wasn't water but sputum (phlegm)

Sounds a lot like this. But really should ask the doctors

The guys playing with them are the tourists, not the pensioners. Especially younger tourists

This is an exaggeration just as the wrong as the pensioners who think they carry all the weight of the Thai economy. A tourist spends a high daily average for 2 or 3 weeks, but a lot of this money does not arrive at the Thai economy, it goes to foreign companies, Hilton, Emirates etc. Of course, these big lump payments are easily taxed by brown envelopes, so decision makers in Thailand like them. Pensioners spend all year round, not only two of three years. They spend lump sums that go directly into the Thai economy, like condos, cars, washing machines. Their daily average i do not dare to guess. I know pensioners whose daily average is incredible low. Personally, I spend much, much more per day since I live here than when I was a tourist. in aggregate, tourists are, of course, much more important because they are many more.