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The discussion is not about that, it's about the benefits of using a lawyer, nothing to do with real estate agent fees.

That's because you can't read properly

All you are telling them is that you have a tax registration in another jurisdiction, that's what they want to know and that information satisfies them. That doesn't automatically mean you actually pay tax there because the tax rules vary from country to country. Thailand cannot tax your income unless you remit it to their jurisdiction.

If the money is never remitted to Thailand, the Thai Revenue cannot tax that income.

Who ever thinks my question is funny, perhaps you want to try and exercise your brain and try to answer it!

I will echo @scorecard post above, what exactly do you think you get for your money when you pay 15k or 45k for a lawyer to help you buy a property? In practise, lawyer is just another pointless agent here, just like visa agents and bank account agents, you can do it all yourself because the Land Office does all the work. You don't actually get any extra protection, as far as I can see and I've bought and sold a number of times.

By applying the letter of the law (Tax Code), there is probably no need to change the law in the way you have described. 60k baht per year of assessable income is a very very low threshold.

It's unusual for deposits to be deployed here, if they are then a contract is required, which is far from customary. Liens and borrowings are recorded on the back of the channotte.

Does anyone really think that in a best/worst case scenario that the remittance rule might might revert to what it was? I cannot imagine that scenario.

Always check the back of the chanotte, any encumbrance on the property will be listed there. A bog standard 15k solicitor payment doesn't buy you much or reduce your risk, Many people think the role of the lawyer in this type of transaction is to protect the buyer from the Land Office process which in truth is very efficient and requires very little support. Boundaries and seller identity are my two major concerns. I've never had a lawyer provide a contract for my purchases, I've always done that myself but eventually gave up when I realised that what I'd written and we'd signed probably was meaningless....my lawyer(s) were not really interested in its contents and didn't think it was necessary. What you get for 15k is the lawyers attendance at the Land Office and some cursory checks and that's about it, if you want more than that you have to upscale the price significantly but I still doubt they will bother to do a land office survey.

This is a natural extension of what already takes place.......Burmese labour is a mainstay of Thai fishing boats, contracting out the entire job to the Burmese and then buying their catch is an obvious solution.

Some of you are so funny, you've been told about the rule change but because nothing has been said since, you think they may not be serious.......really! I suppose that leaves you with a choice, one of which is to ignore it all and see what happens downstream. If you decide to go that route and it gets messy later, you can't say you didn't know and weren't told.

This is what I get:

Tried it just now, no luck......must eat

Not yet, but I will after dinner.

No, I just tried and still the spinning wheel. I may try reloading Chrome, when I get some time. I did switch off all my extensions and reset Chrome but that did nothing useful.

Yes, absolutely they will. The cost for us in Mae Rim 3 years ago was 6k baht.

Lawyer fees to buy and sell a house are about 15k baht, using a good lawyer but frankly you don't get much for that. My best tip when buying a property is to have the Land Office survey the boundaries of the land and make sure there are no surprises.

You may or may not be the author of the attachment that you wish to protect and keep safe. Downloading it to your own device and then attaching it to an email sent to your self accomplishes that. The document in question may not have originated via an inbound email from another person, it may be an Excel worksheet, a PDF from the web, a USB transferred document etc etc etc.

Different people have different opinions, it's not a black and white, someone must be right and somebody wrong. Suggest this exchange come to an end and get back on topic.

We've all agreed that nobody knows the accurate figures, that should be the end of it I'd have thought. This is not about stopping misinformation, it's about behaving in a realistic and sensible manner.

Good god, are you kidding me? It was only an observation, not an invitation to write a thesis!

Yes, my recollection is that all the debates were about the state pension versus the exchange rate and whether or not folks were going to be able to afford to stay or not. People seem to have had less money back then, the 800k was a bigger barrier than it is today.

You don't have to be the author of the attachment

Attaching important files to an email and sending them to yourself, is a useful way to back up documents, if you have no other means.