Ben Zioner

You are right, it is income earned in the "said year" brought into the kingdom in "any year", after January 9 though, that becomes taxable. Thanks google translate. So the poster who suggested to transfer one or two years income before January 9 was right.

Maybe, but the LTR/WP differs from other visas such as Thailand Elite in that tax exemption is advertised as one of its main benefits. None of the other retirement visa offers such benefit. Until now all pensioners who transferred their income in the year of earning were technically taxable, but the Tax Office chose to ignore this situation and might to it again. Thais would say that pensions aren't taxable, but that only true as their miserable benefits are, for the vast majority, below 150000 per annum.

BOI/LTR WP

Do you really think that economy class passengers are getting ripped off by airlines? It is the First and Business class passengers that make the profit (if any) of the airlines.

Reckon this would be unfair?

Well they have been doing this for decades. It is calle business class. Can't complain about leg room when one pays 800 USD for a GVA/BKK.

About 10 Satang a Calorie.

For an individual of this quality, joining the ADF would make more sense IMHO. He might not end up caught on the wrong side of the fence. Also, Australia flies the F35 and doesn't cry for Diesel submarine engines.

Hardly luxury at 3364 Baht per night. But that's no excuse for not giving proper compensation. Giving 100000 is an insult in this case.

Hilarious. Just said that their service was outstanding. No one could expect a free outstanding service. Would you? And don't know of any other IT brand who systematically replace damaged or faulty gear.

Well, my guess is that any sensible person would buy an Apple care + plan. Just as anyone in his right mind would make sure to have proper health cover. But I am not sure it is wise to say so here.

Doesn't matter, it was indeed covered by Apple care+. But the point is that they didn't replace the screen, they took a brand new Ipad out of stock, sent us off to have a coffee somewhere while they copied all data, settings and apps from the old tablet to the new one. Apple doesn't tinker, or rarely, they replace damaged units and sent the old ones to factory for refurbishing. Also I had a Macbook pro that got badly damaged by a swollen battery, keyboard, and full body needed replacement, they asked me to pay 7000 Baht for battery replacement and replaced the unit. Took a while because my keyboard showed hebrew caracters.

I guess you in your usual state of abject belligerent drunkenness.

I know the topic is Iphone 15, so this just a short story for the Apple haters. My 8 years old somehow broke the screen of her Ipad, so off we go to the Central World Apple store. There they check our appointment and Apple care status, look at the tablet and their computer system and after a couple of minutes: "Lucky you are we got one in stock, you get a new one". Tell me if you know another brand with a service like that.

Abject failure of a dog.

OMG, I can see how difficult this is going to be..

Thought the latter had already been done, very successfully, in 2014.

Exactly!

@transam ("She was married before....?") Nope. But I didn't say I didn't give any money to her parents who needed it. No wedding, but now they live in a nice house and have two beautiful grand daughters.

At that 1000 Baht for ST it will cost you a fortune in Antibiotics and Antivirals.

The parents don't need it, so he shouldn't give anything. I went to marriage office in Banrak and I did'n have to show anything. Never had any of those bull<deleted> weddings. We are still happy after nearly 15 years.

Yep, but I'd do that research once gen Z turn 70.

Yeah, gen Z losers.

Easy to answer that one. First year I deposited an extra 200k believing that I could use the 400k for my extension of stay. Not so, the letter they gave me showed only 200k available for immigration purpose. Never mind I had enough elsewhere. But that makes perfect sense since logically you can't use the same money for two distinct guarantees. Thereafter I had one account for CC and a distinct on for Immigration. Dunno yet what I am going to do with the latter. Smallish money anyhow.

They wanted to know why you were coming so often to Thailand. If I was them I'd ask too, add ask also how you make a living, etc. If you stretch the visa system you must be prepared to be asked some questions. What you wrote just shows that the IO did their job.