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He joined the Marines in 2003 and served as a combat correspondent – or military journalist – until 2007, Vance was deployed to Iraq for six months in late 2005. Based on his memoir, he would “attach to different units to get a sense of their daily routine,” escort civilian press, and write stories about individual marines. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/07/16/was-jd-vance-marine-military/74411600007/ He was deployed to Iraq as a combat correspondent for six months in late 2005.[13][14] There, he was assigned to the Public Affairs section of the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.[15][16] About his service, he commented that it "taught me how to live like an adult" and he was "lucky to escape any real fighting" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._D._Vance

Technically, yes.....he is a veteran according to the VA. a veteran is defined as anyone who served in the active military, naval, or air service and was discharged or released under conditions other than dishonorable. But no, not in the contemporary meaning of the word when used with the general public. He was not a warrior, he saw no combat, he never fired a shot in anger. He was a "military journalist" charged with writing patriotic propaganda puff pieces and shuttling VIP's around.

Sounds nice, but........ To qualify, applicants must demonstrate financial stability with a minimum bank balance of 500,000 THB and pay the required visa fee upfront. Still have to show 500K in a Thai bank. Does this have to be maintained at a certain level throughout life of the visa, and must proof be provided for extensions? Shirley, not at border bounces. Proof of employment with a registered company is mandatory and verifiable, ensuring eligibility for digital nomads and remote workers with appropriate documentation. The list of registered companies has not yet been provided, nor do we know what "appropriate documentation" will be needed.

That's if you stay in Thailand no more than the included 180 days. If you extend........................you've become a tax resident.

The fish sauce is in the details! The DTV visa allows stays of up to 180 days with a visa issuance fee of 10,000 baht, valid for five years. DTV holders can extend their stay once for an additional 180 days with another 10,000 baht fee and may request to change the type of visa within the country. You must prove that you possess at least 500,000 THB in your bank account to support your stay in the country. You must provide proof of employment with a registered company.

Yes, he did. Google exists. If you truly want to know the answer.

I see YOU appear to be in a cult, claiming others are in an opposing cult. Wait, what? Biden was certified insane/senile/incompetent by a certified medical authority, and the report was made public? Citation, please!

I don't think your rantings are having the effect you desire. I was planning to blow off this (s)election, figuring it would be a waste of time. But seeing the crazy lunatic poop being thrown against the wall is causing me to reconsider that position......

Fortunately there's Lazada with Chinese sellers willing to ship direct to your home for only 38 baht. Their motto: "Have!"

I applied for health insurance a couple years after heart surgery. Fresh policy with no age cutoff included a 5-year moratorium on cardiac-related issues, which has since been removed. Just spend some time, keep looking. Might take a good part of a year. If you give up as early as March, you might miss it.

Travel insurance will cover normal activities, cycling being one such, including long-distance touring. Entering a cycling race/competition would normally be excluded. *edit* I shall explain. I like to ride my bicycle. I like to ride it where I like. I like to take my bike to Singapore and ride to China, or to Cairns and ride the perimeter of the island. I checked with various insurers before my travels to confirm I would be covered while cycling. Yes for riding around town, yes for riding through the wilderness, no for entering a race.

Standard equipment in BMX/downhill racing.

Oh, they've focused on y'all. They changed the remittance rules to increase the likelihood of you owing tax and increasing your financial contributions. This visa change will let more wandering princes inadvertently obtain Thai tax residency.

In Thailand, bicycle ride you!

I scanned that link about offshore sourced income. The word "savings" appears exactly zero times. The word "income" appears 32 times. This is the old "renew my visa" picking of nits. Yes, we all know the original visa has expired, and immigration knows the visa has expired, but we AND immigration often call an "extension of permission of stay based on non-immigration status for purpose of retirement".........renewing or extending a visa. We're not in (tax) court, and we know what the speaker means. And there's always a poster that has to, you know, the thing. Same-same at the TRD office. When filing tax, the official may ask about remittances, and then inquire as to whether the remitted funds were salary or pension or savings. They always (as far as I know) accept a self-assessment of "savings" in the colloquial usage. As with the IRS, the English version TRD website under PIT only uses the word "savings" one time, and that in reference to savings account interest. I'ma sayin' I understand that technically "savings" does not exist in a financial sense, but that "savings" will be used by expats AND TRD officials to refer to non-assessable pre-2024 income.

Okay. I get it now. "Savings" is not a thing in finance. The hundreds of thousands of pages of IRS regs don't reference "savings" unless talking about interest from bank savings accounts or contributions to health savings funds, etc. That's fine for the IRS, as they generally are taxing income at the source. All the money (or assets) you have came into your possession at some time as income. For the most part, income is assessed when you gain control over it, and it's assessed and taxed then. What you do with it later is mostly irrelevant....spend it, save it, invest it........it still had an original source as income. How and where you hold it is unimportant in general. We can comangle the funds, put all our money in one bucket and it doesn't matter. Everything is/was assessed when we got it. So sure, we can colloquially call it "savings", but it's still income from salary or interest or pension or lottery winnings or child support or tax refund or inheritance or gift or whatever. Taxing "savings" would be what we consider a wealth tax. Our problem now is a foreign government wants to use a remittance system. Without a fully-staffed FBI forensic team with unlimited budget and access to financial databases, how will it be possible at the end of the year to trace the source of each individual remittance and link it to one discrete transaction for purpose of assessing tax liability? If I have direct deposit of a pension into a Thai bank it's possible. But if I send $1000 via Wise, what did I send out of the big bucket of comingled funds? I expect TRD will continue to rely on self-assessment and will find that despite an increased number of expat filings, their take won't increase, and may in fact decrease for obvious reasons.

Someone asked. I was trying to be helpful.

No change to wise transfer times here. Sent <$1000 Friday evening ~9:00, closed for weekend, received email from Wise Monday evening ~8:30, logged in, sent baht as monthly expenses, received into Bangkok Bank account within seconds.

I've heard good reports about Schwab International. No personal experience. https://international.schwab.com/open-account-intro

And there you have confirmation of the hermit's amazing healing powers! The massage oil treatment obviously worked, so what is she complaining about?

USA currently has tax forms in twenty languages. No Thai, but for some reason one is Khmer. https://www.irs.gov/help/languages

The problem is they're fielding a football team in a mislabeled soccer tournament.

Not tax exempt. It IS technically taxed, but at 0% according to the tax table. That is the 0% bracket. If it were tax exempt, there would be a 150K exemption we could claim, and then the tax tables would account for that and begin immediately with the 5% bracket. I think that may be confusing some people when discussing dual-taxation. Some things are taxed in an origin country at a zero or low rate, but can be taxed again in a resident country at a higher rate, with the difference possibly being applied to tax credits in the source country. My interpretation. I'm not a tax accountant. *I used my pink ID number last week to e-file online returns.

Pedestrians have been known to expire when hit by standard pushies. NYC bicyclists are killing pedestrians and the city won’t stop it Since 2011, bicyclists have injured more than 2,250 pedestrians — including at least seven who died https://nypost.com/2019/08/31/nyc-bicyclists-are-killing-pedestrians-and-the-city-wont-stop-it/

Tourist should spend a couple years in the pokey, then be deported and banned for life. First, of course, make him pay restitution to the motorcycle thugs to compensate them for scraped knuckles.