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I'd rather go to booking.com where it defaults to total price without worrying about changing Agoda settings

How do you know how many incoming were coming to Pattaya instead of Bangkok? And you think high season is coming because you had 2 ladies knock you back. Laughable that Pattaya high season is linked to your sex life ???? For me, I haven't seen any signs of high season stirring. Just lots of old expats drinking in bars with hardly any younger tourists. A mate just arrived from Phuket however and he said it was absolutely rammed with tourists

This thread makes me want to go out looking for some condo fire sales as panicked owners try to sell before market apparently crashes due 1 Jan tax ????

This is hilarious that people believe if you buy a condo for 6 million you'll be taxed on the 6 million coming into Thailand However it's also sad that Thailand has put this new tax ruling out there without clearly defining what it means, and don't seem to care the panic or negativity it's creating

Rubbish. I'm in Pattaya and Agoda showed me prices before taxes on every hotel I looked at

Yeah but the Agoda price was much higher in the end so something going on there

This is an Agoda thing. I went to book a hotel in Bangkok and Agoda showed a good price until I went to pay and they added ++ taxes and service charge. Went to Booking dot com and price was fully inclusive of all taxes so much cheaper in the end

But he said it still floods in Pattaya but it hasn't as no rain ???? They just finished the new drain pipes between soi Bukhao and 2nd road 3 weeks ago so time will tell if it still floods down to the beach

What flooding? It's hardly rained at all this wet season

That's how I understood it. I did a TM30 4 weeks ago and I went straight to building A. I don't do 90 day reports but all signs for 90 day reporting say go direct to building A

2024 tax doesn't have to be filed until 31 March 2025. So how to show tax clearence in those 15 months if you weren't required to do tax before? Like every tax thread here it's just all speculation

To avoid tax residence status it's maximum 179 days in Thailand and 181 days in Cambodia so you'll need to find a 3rd country to spend 5 days in ????

I wasn't renting out during covid, however I think that's a silly question as what investment/business didn't suffer during Covid. I mean my bank interest lowered to 0.2% (0.45% on 12 month term deposit)

This thread is the most ridiculous "new tax thread" yet You are considered a tax resident if 180+ days in Thailand in calender year. How many 90 day multi-entry O stays you do is irrelevant and no different to doing 180 days on visa exempt and/or tourist visa

OP makes no sense as it just describes the current 30 day extension that was always available I read the article link though and it includes they can get further 30 day extensions, however "they must prove the case of necessity, with certification or a formal request made by their embassy or consulate" It's good they put something in place but I doubt the Isreal Embassy will give them a letter saying they can't travel home?

Never seen it advertised in Pattaya in 15 years of coming here. OP must have a Pattaya forum fetish as he's already had topic covered in his OP in health forum

If anyone ever needed an agent it's the OP. He's proudly done a non-immigrant O visa 3 times already and nothing has changed since last application but he has a thousand questions lol Good luck to you but you are way over thinking this. Copy of Passport, tourist visa/entry stamp, TM30, bank statement, bank book copies, TM86 form and 2000 Baht. Job done.

My property investments allowed me to retire at 52. My #1 rule, only buy median priced properties that receive the median price rental. My rental properties were never empty and renters nicely paid off my mortgages for me Buying an expensive property to get less nett rent is silly, as is buying multiple cheap Nirun condos as per "OP's latest Fetish" (he said it)

I'm renting out a 2.2 million baht Condo for 7.1% nett (8.7% Gross). Much better than bank interest Agent also says my 6 million Baht condo will get 5.8% nett (7.2% Gross) as less people can afford it. So maybe buying 2 million baht condo's is the sweet spot for rental investments?

Rental income in Thailand has always been taxable but it's up to the individual to submit a tax return just like in most other countries. I didn't submit an Aussie tax return for 7 years, no-one chased me to do so but I paid the penalty when I finally did submit them. I'd say Thailand is the same. Also no tax to pay if rental income less than 150k baht nett per year and only 5% on 150,001 to 300,000 if you had 7 Nirun condo's ????

OP might find this thread useful about someone who visited Nirun condo for 10 minutes. He saw people drinking at 10am though not 9am like this OP and nobody called him a "Bunny Wabbit" Oh wait, it's the same OP! Worth noting in last Nirun thread he said "Terrible place and I won't buy there"

I found the instruction sign out front related to Building A and B to be as clear as mud ????

I asked for it in Building B desk. They also gave me the non-imm O application form.

A tip I forgot. The photocopy queue is right next to the initial check desk queue in building B. While I was waiting it was a little comical how many lined up in the photocopy queue by mistake ????

As I witnessed mass confusion last week at Jomtien immigration I thought I'd add a process update. It now has the 3 buildings in place as follows: Building A (right side) - go directly there for 90 day reports and TM30 Buliding B (left side): initial desk for everything else (also a copier queue) Main Building (centre): only go there after all your forms are checked and have a ticket number from Building B They seemed to have eliminated the dreadful queues but for some reason the process seemed to take longer. In my case I went for 30 day extension of tourist Visa. I arrived at Building B at 10:40, got my ticket and told to come back to main building at 1pm. I was then first called, paid my 1900 and was told to wait for passport in Building B, which arrived 1:40pm. All in all 3 hours to get extension when it used to take 20-60 minutes in the past, however I may have been unlucky being first told to come back after lunch? Another development is that the "rogue" rule for having 800k in bank for 2 months prior to applying for a non-immigration O Visa (retirement) has now been clearly published on their guidance form (normally the 2 months deposit is only required for 12 month extension)