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If you have prior savings, and documentation to prove that if necessary, you can remit the funds to your Thai account without paying tax, as those funds are non-assessable. That's clearly stated in the tax laws. From there you can gift up to 20 million baht to your wife with no tax consequences for either of you. Since those funds are already established as non-taxable, there is no question of tax avoidance/evasion.

Good on Thailand for inviting more Chinese tourists. Chinese are really good at that math thingie!

Why hurry? Larger bills generate more sympathy on gogriftme.

How much does repatriation cost? The cost of a repatriation is between 2,000 and 5,000 euros

Thailand understands "diversity be our strenf', yo!" 'Twould be unwise to depend on the Chinese to run all the phone scams and boiler rooms!

Two possibilities: 1. You have a foreign currency account or current account that pays zero interest. 2. Your savings account has a zero balance, thus no interest. https://krungthai.com/en/personal/deposits/217/44

"Je Suis Al Capone"

At the point when the 5W bulb became energized, the lady in a tax office uniform had two options: 1. Realize she made a misteak, admit it honestly, correct it. 2. Realize she made a misteak, cover it up, lie. Taxes are confusing and stressful enough in our own countries, but now we've got a poorly-designed system with not well thought out legislation, incorrectly translated, haphazardly enforced by uneducated little wanna-be tyrants unable to admit their failings.

Sure, he may have plenty of doctoring credentials and heaps and heaps of published papers, but does he have experience 'rolfing'? Does he know how to correlate my aura to the correct crystal and essential oils? Is he able to produce the necessary amulets and spells to ward off the gremlins that bring the covids?

HOW DO FOREIGNERS LIVING IN THAILAND PAY TAX? Foreign sourced income derived before 1st January 2024 and remitted into Thailand in a later tax year is not subject to Thai Tax. https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/user_upload/lorkhor/newspr/2024/FOREIGNERS_PAY_TAX2024.pdf

Maybe, maybe likely not. Did the TRD lady just put in a big, fat, hairy zero as that was her arbitrary final determination, or was that where the flow of calculations on the worksheet ended up? If the former, then anyone listing non-assessable income will need to file in person, as the online system appears to be unable to simply "poof" it out of existence.

Those are all exemptions to Thai-sourced income. Teachers earning just the basic school salary might be remitting income from their home countries.

My remittances were all prior savings, so not declared. My only income listed was interest and dividends. ~13K baht total, so taxes withheld ~2K, Well under TEDA, so full refund. US SocSec in non-assessable, not taxable, so NOT included in your declared assessable income. It's invisible to Thailand, as though doesn't exist.

Will there be new forms issued? Tax filing season is already upon us. I've already filed, and unless I missed it (quite possible), the online Thai version does not have any blanks for non-assessable income or remittances, and no method to claim DTA benefits. @Mutt Daeng above reports running through the online system using Chrome to translate, and doesn't report anything of the sort. I can't imagine a national tax authority issuing new versions of forms after the filing period has opened and millions of diligent taxpayers have already filed!

I filed 3 returns online 6 months ago, and filed 2024 return online yesterday. Online forms in Thai only if that's what you meant.

How many beers did he drink sitting in the parking lot "for some time"?

Please! How can a logger be illegal? He's an "undocumented forester."

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Dude, don't keep us in suspenders! Where is this paradise? Maybe you could start another thread to discuss it.......would be of interest when planning for possible worldwide taxation.

Sure, many scooters can't reach highway speeds, or aren't safe/comfortable to do so. You'll still get the previously mentioned family of five on a superbike driving the wrong way on the freeway at night without lights. The only way is to ban 2-wheelers completely, seeing as there is no enforcement.

I had read somewhere, long ago, that western road engineers will occasionally ADD unnecessary curves to extremely long sections of straight highway to relieve boredom and improve safety.

I don't want to be the first to find out! I wouldn't expect any problem WISE'ing the wife a thousand bucks every now and then, but if a million-baht transfer shows up in an account linked to a return claiming (joint filing) no salary or income, TRD might take notice. I'd really rather avoid any necessity of arguing with a local tax officer when he/she likely has the law on his/her side that a remittance sent from my account into Thailand into a differently named account is MY remittance, regardless of eventual intended purpose, and I will have to document source of funds. TRD officer can argue, and likely be backed up by actual law, that a remittance of assessable income into my account is taxable, regardless of purpose, and therefore MY remitting to another person is no different, still taxable because I remitted the funds. That might lead to a charge of tax avoidance.

Many scooters can. It's just that's not the way locals (Asians in general it seems) drive them. A family of five on a scooter without helmets traveling at bicycle speed, riding on the white line on the edge of a major highway in the wrong direction at night without lights? Not a great plan.

No money laundering. It's a gift. Not for my benefit. She is to hold the funds in that account until I'm under ground. They are to 'take care her' when I'm gone. I don't intend to potentially pay 35% tax when I don't need to.

That's not what I'm suggesting. If I remit funds to her account or to mine, the remittance is mine. If the funds are assessable income, they may be taxable for me if I exceed TEDA. If I remit NON-assessable funds, they are not taxable.