lordgrinz

If all of that is true, then that makes me feel better! Do we need to file a Thai tax return if we remit money to Thailand from any of these "never assessable amounts of money"? My wife already files a Thai return that includes me (using my Pink ID number as my Thai Tax ID), but not sure if she will need to add anything I remit here that's "never assessable". As of Dec 31st 2023 I had a pretty good amount of savings in two banks, and an IRA at my brokerage, also an interest bearing cash account at the brokerage (all of these in the USA). I am still planning to ride out 2024 without remitting anything, just to see how others handle the tax issues first, but good to hear that this may not effect me all that badly, if at all.

He will be brought in to find out where he should send his next batch of brown envelopes, then all will be right in the world again.

The first guy has assaulting and kicking a woman on public property, a road range incident with an Ambulance, and now possessing two firearms without a license and carrying them concealed in public. He went for the trifecta of reasons to deport his arse, unless there are more criminal acts he has been involved in here in Thailand? Who the heck is this guy?!?!

Yikes! This guy is a menace! Carrying a concealed firearm in Thailand, and he's a Farang?!?! I somehow think there is way more to this guys story, and who has been protected or supporting his Shenanigans, the boys in brown?

Who in their right mind would think smuggling 30kg of cannabis in their suitcase would go unnoticed?!

I can see the new Army leaders salivating at this news from the Democrats, que the riots, then in come the armored personnel carriers (Thank you USA!). Then....Deja Vu!

You would think he would pay a fine and leave, or maybe he'll use a Case Visa (Defendants Visa) to gain time to pack up and leave at a later point.

Yup, he has now officially had his Visa revoked! Nitwit had it coming, though he still has a court case to deal with before they deport him.

Meanwhile over a million soi dogs are suffering on every street corner, only because they can't make money on exploiting them.

So 1 out of every 7 Thai citizens needed treatment for pollution related illnesses? Sounds like a great place to retire or vacation, don't forget to pack your respirator!

Should we now put CW on your list of places to ignore? 😉

Yes, they wanted copies of all the pages from the old passport for the next extension only, after that they said they wouldn't be needed. Believe me, I wish all IO's did things exactly the same, and by the book, but we all know that isn't reality.

At Nonthaburi IO they made a point of telling me they wanted copies off all the pages of the Old Passport and New Passport when I did my next extension. I handed them the old passport book and copies off all the pages when I went for my extension in February, everything went smoothly. After that they said they wouldn't need those copies for future extensions. Not sure why they wanted them, but I kept them happy.

I'm still hoping for a new Ice Age, oh well 😒

I use my Amazon Prime Visa card, which I believe has no foreign transaction fees, though I can't remember the last time I used it here. Everything here is paid using my wife's CC's or more often by using my SCB account for online payments or purchases. I pay almost everything using my SCB app, haven't been in any situation where I really needed the Amazon Prime card here, the SCB app is super convenient to make everyday purchases.

Yeah, they have no way to verify a US territorial state document, other than going the full route of legalization through all the channels. I had my brother send all my documents back and forth to all the entities, below is a link to the procedure for legalization. You did the state part already, just a few more steps (US State Department, US Thai Embassy, MFA), though time consuming. If you have someone in the states to help with all the USPS priority tracked mailing, then they could get you the rest of the way, then the MFA you can do yourself from Thailand. Don't get too discouraged. https://newyork.thaiembassy.org/en/page/legalization?menu=61ea69ddf85ab7598d722da2 https://washingtondc.thaiembassy.org/th/page/certify-us-documents

Maybe just the Asian ones, us Westerners stick out like a sore thumb 😉

Can you expand on that? So we get a free tax preparer at the RD?

If you're a leader of a country, where the buck stops with you, and you're are shocked, it's time to let the people know you are out of your depth and resign.

Did you get the Apostille legalized at a Thai Embassy in the US? Plus, I think the Gold seal is the state Apostille, you would still need to get it authenticated by the US Secretary of state(which when they are done is a bonded/riveted together multi-paged document), I believe the Secretary of State was John Kerry in 2015. Then bring that back here to the MFA and have them certify the US Thai Embassy signature? My full Apostille/Authenticated Marriage documents have an original notarized (embossed seal) marriage certificate, a letter from the Secretary of the Commonwealth (Massachusetts) with his Gold Seal applied verifying the signature of the Notary, then it has the top off-white/Manila letter from the US State Department (embossed seal) with the US Secretary of States signature certifying the Massachusetts seal, then a red and blue stamped seal from the Thai Embassy in Washington DC with Signature on the Top riveted page from the US State department. The backside of that top page has the MFA stamp certifying the signature of the Thai Embassy in Washington DC. So three pages riveted together with multiple certifications by people attesting to all of the signatures and seals.

My wife did the Kor Ror 22 and Surname change before I even applied for a Visa back in early 2016, using only the state (Massachusetts) issued marriage certificate (Notary sealed) and a translated copy, not sure if she also used a copy of my Passport info page. The only thing I did when I got here was to get the Affidavit, for Immigration extension purposes, from the American Embassy in Bangkok stating the following: "I ______________________ married_________ at the address of __________________ in the town of __________ in the state of ____________________ on the date of _________________ ,the ceremony of marriage was administered by the Justice of the Peace and acting Town Clerk ______________." And like said, a year later I went through the process of getting the Apostille/Authentication, because I wasn't sure if the marriage documentation would ever be questioned in the future, so far no problems. We were also told by my IO we don't need an updated Kor Ror 22 because my wife changed her Surname to mine, otherwise they would have asked for one.

He was a former police officer, then became a politician, everything is "ill-gotten gains".

Did you marry in the USA or Thailand? Did your wife ever get the Kor Ror 2, or Kor Ror 22 done? and did she also change her surname to yours? Other than what you presented above, we also present our Kor Ror 22, and her Surname change each year. But just in case (a year later) I went ahead and got our Marriage Certificate from the USA authenticated by the US State Department (Apostille/Authentications), then had it legalized through the Thai Embassy in Washington D.C. and then stamped at MFA here at Chaengwattana. The Apostille/Authenticated version, as far as I know, is as high as you can go with that process, but it takes considerable time and effort to get it all done. I was worried about eventually running into the same issue you have, that's why I went with the Apostille, so far I haven't had to pull that out though.

The last "premier" was a village idiot, so in this instance even "dumb" would be a slight improvement.

The link to the original story on TheThaiger still clearly states "8 billion Chinese".