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You are a tax resident if you stay more than 180 days in one calendar year. You need to stay outside of Thailand for the other 185 days.

Congratulations. As of now, the RD has staff who counts these days by hand, from copies of the immigration stamps. But of course, this can be automated and the RD can be connected to the immigration database.

Somewhere in this thread someone said in Thailand it's 20 years. Hard to imagine this would really happen.

Anyone who has been in Thailand more than 180 days in a calendar year

The antifungals help. God knows whether I ever had herpes. (Too lazy to do a serology - for what?) Next skin disease, I will go straight to the IoD. BTW the waiting time there was shorter than in Bumrungrad. The seating in the waiting area is the most comfortable for me I have ever seen. And they even have power outlets to recharge your mobile! (No power, though, but the sockets look nice) There were quite a few foreigners, too (only Asians)

About DTA: 1. as I said earlier, it will be a bureaucratic nightmare for you. Dogmatix has explained it. 2. Some have asked whether Thailand can breach a DTA. Yes, they can. A DTA is a treaty between 2 sovereign states, and if one state doesn't adhere to the treaty, the other state may take whatever action is deemed appropriate. An individual subject of one of these 2 states does not have the right to demand that it's government follow the treaty. Governments can and do openly breach treaties (including the DTA they have with Thailand). Their subjects are not entitled to anything. The other state is. If Thailand breaches the DTA with Gambia, Gambia can e.g. introduce economic sanctions, like buying no more durian. Gambian citizens can do nothing about it.

It's the way Mr Bankman, a Stanford tax professor, got a nice villa from his son (paid in effect with customers' money). He is being sued now. Not everybody is willing to "believe" these shenanigans. It's all over the news https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/sep/19/ftx-sues-sam-bankman-fried-parents

You should write "accepted by the law"

The standard way around this as practiced by many governments is too ask incoming travelers how much cash they carry. If the answer is not truthful, all the cash is forfeited.

In several of the usual hospitals your choice of male doctors is exactly 1 person. Correct. But just scroll through their interests, experiences, fellowships etc. and most of them (and their male colleagues, too) are really mainly interested in aesthetics. Thanks for this.

The word "only" was added by you, its not in coconuts and not in the original from the RD, which has been translated in this thread 3 times

No, different places. It made me think I might have had herpes first, and it really healed, and then I developed yeast (I had to take antibiotics for an unrelated condition, which is a risk factor for yeast)

They do PCR for herpes from the urine. The correct way would be to do it from a swab from a fresh lesion. I have yet to see anywhere in Bangkok where this is actually done.

Not required. Dead people can owe taxes, too.

If you are a tax resident of Thailand (and don't pay tax anywhere else) this would be the logical answer. Realistically, I don't think it will happen. But you may need a tax adviser in both countries, just to be safe

Then the whole regulation doesn't make a lot of sense. Thailand has a DTA with almost every country. I hope you are right, though

This has been written here many times. But it's not the full truth. You can't just say "hi, dear tax office, I am from Gambia, and as you know, we have a DTA with Thailand. Bye!" Dogmatix' post just above yours explains much more realistically the bureaucratic nightmare awaiting you. First of all, you will probably need a tax adviser in your country and one in Thailand.... Have fun!

Very good advice, I know. An urologist in Iran once suggested I should be circumcised, I was horrified. His reasoning was similar.

No, he wasn't available for a couple of days. I have seen him years ago and cannot complain.

I tried antifungal cream when it all started, it made things worse. I will start again. Its anothe cream. For the future. This was not a pleasant experience, and not for the first time.

Where do you get this idea from?

I thought I had genital herpes (2 clusters of tiny blisters on the glans, burning), so I took aciclovir. After 10 days, it became erosions, so I saw one of the skin doctors recommended here. One look: "Oh, it's herpes, it's healing. " It didn't heal. I went to Bumrungrad. One look: "Oh, it's yeast." I got the usual steroid-combination and an expensive Eucerin cream. The Eucerin helps, the steroids I didn't take. Instead I went to the Institute of Dermatology. "It looks like yeast, let's do a lab test" The test confirmed yeast, I got oral and local antifungals. I asked the lab technician whether they can do herpes PCR - no. All these private hospital dermatologist do anti-aging, Botox, Laser etc. Almost all are women. I don't think a female Botox specialist would be appropriate for me. I would have expected the private hospitals to do some tests, but no. Can anyone recommend a male dermatologist who is interested in skin diseases, not aesthetics, for the future?

Thanks for pointing out the coming problems with the banks. I asked Bangkok Bank, and the answer was: a Thai will have a certificate of the name change. Without such a certificate they don't know what to do. BTW I also called immigration hotline. They answer the phone, on a Sunday afternoon! They don't see any problem at all. Just enter with both passports, get a certificate from your embassy in Thailand, and then go to immigration to rectify your information and transfer the visa. Maybe it's really that easy?

Sounds like a good idea.

Why always so aggressive? And what is so mysterious? You want to delve into family law of some European country? Why is the reason for the name change important, anyway? Immigration might find a name change suspicious? Maybe that's a point. But name changes are pretty standard, especially in Thailand. It was my idea to ask here. His idea was to apply for a new visa. I always thought you can't have 2 visas at the same time so I thought the correct way should be more along the lines CMbob and RedPhoenix described first.