NanLaew

https://www.marketvillagehuahin.co.th/en/shop/mobile-it/Itcityshop-marketvillage The starting clue is the where the OP posted his query, ie. Hua Hin & Cha-Am

Gotta hate sumthin' I guess.

What? How about that gogo dancer you married? You sure about that?

Good point. No meaningful income patching up creaking Pentium 4 machines for pensioners when they can get a corporate refurbished i5 with an SSD and running W11 for about 5000 baht on lazada.

Let's don't but say we did.

...with cookies.

Rubbish. I've been working with Russians and Ukrainians on a few offshore projects for the past couple of years. Some have families and have very complicated lives between offshore assignments. Others are single but still have their worries about friends and families back in their homelands. They work together offshore and don't get messed-up on weed and alcohol and make 'war' their excuse for being a dick.

Where's Constable Hakparn when you really need him?

Their business model is based on the premise that most subscribers are on auto-renew and are either too busy, inattentive or mostly satisfied and aren't shopping around. My consumer model is to never use auto-renew and let the subscription get into "11th-hour" status or even lapsed, whereupon they email a heavily discounted annual renewal offer that I accept (still declining auto-renew).

Pure VPN. Third year of ops. No worries.

Thanks for sharing your interpretation of the pending changes to the tax laws.

And yet despite them all being "much more fun", here you are back in Thailand.

Why? You don't need a work permit or visa to get a TIN. You can then pay income tax on Thai rental income, stock dividends, overseas income which can be offset your home country's tax. It will be more challenging to the likes of the OP and those who can't get their head around income tax. Not a challenge to me.

So the IO at the border checkpoint is going to be checking tax returns now are they? don’t you know how ridiculous that sounds? @JeffersLos never suggested that the border IO's will be doing that. Nobody has. You need to think outside your box a wee bit more.

Why do you care about who other members engage with? Jog on.

Opening one usually takes longer than closing one and for now, opening a new one can be challenging. It will be even more challenging when opening a new account in Thailand requires the applicant to have a Thailand TIN (Tax ID Number).

Living in a pool villa can be like that. Not sure about being a property owner in one though.

Income tax isn't related to anyone's Thailand immigration status or their Thailand long-stay entitlement. If you have a Thai bank account in your name, the Thailand Revenue Department already know where to "find" you. If you are happy to fund your long-stay through credit cards and cash withdrawals from foreign banks via the ATM, you'll be OK.

If you insist on falsely accusing me of openly engaging in corruption on a public forum in Thailand, I will sue you for defamation. I won't, but please give it up with this holier-than-thou, 'good people' nonsense. Other people obtaining a visa that they are entitled to via legal means is not making your (sad) life any more difficult but maybe something else is?

I haven't seen any reference to 'savings' in any edicts from the RD. There are two things they have mentioned frequently that I see people desperately trying to skate around or otherwise assert they don't have. 1. Being tax-resident in Thailand. 2. Having income.

If WISE doesn't allocate a tax status to the transaction, any income tax liability is easy for the Thai banks to administer. There's always the Thai-Australian dual taxation treaty to keep you right. https://www.ato.gov.au/forms/Guide-to-foreign-income-tax-offset-rules-2023/?anchor=Attachment_A

Since there are far fewer farang tax dodgers in this blighted realm, it will be loads easier for them to wring any spare shekels out of them than it will be to tax millions of locals. There are more nations coming 'online' with regard to knowing more about your 'resident tourist' or pensioner. For example, the US immigration databases have been connected to more than just law-enforcement ones for quite a while. While undergoing one of my several secondary inspections on entry to the US, I witnessed several passengers being advised of non-immigration affairs that needed to be dealt with. A Venezuelan lady was advised that she was delinquent on divorce and custody hearings while a young German sculptor, based in the US, was advised he needed to resolve outstanding import tax issues regarding some pieces he loaned for display overseas and subsequently brought back to the US. This was over ten years ago and I can only imagine what else these guys can now see on their computer screens. For those that live on extensions and never see an airport, immigration still knows where you live.

I see a trend here.

Why? The rules start on 1st January 2024 so there's a whole fiscal (tax) year to get your ducks in a row. Anyone with any sense will familiarize themselves with any dual-taxation agreement their banking homeland may have in place with Thailand and make sure that their declared tax domicile is the one that takes the least money. Those without a foreign tax domicile will need to bite the bullet and file their taxes here. Otherwise Cambodia, Philippines (and North Korea and Palestine) eagerly awaits you. In all honesty, I seriously doubt that living in Thailand features as a viable option for those of true high net worth. They may have a condo (or a yacht) here but they drop their hard-earned in much nicer places.

Cynicism isn't a legal defence for not paying any income tax that you are assessed as being liable for.