Peter Crow

Not so, [remitted] Income earned from Jan 1, 2025 will be tax exempt if remitted within two years of earning will be tax exempt. 2024 income will be unaffected. And as a said we don't know how long the new rule will last. Some people here are dreaming they'll get a refund of tax paid this year but this will never happen. The rule might be "retroactive" in that some of the income earned, in 2025, prior to the date of effect of the amendment will be exempt. But the big winners will be those who have transferred their savings made prior to Jan 1, 2024 and kept their 2024/2025 earnings overseas.

a) As far as I know, for a foreigner in Thailand a 500K CC limit requires a bank deposit guaranty of 500k. (that's what I have, but for 200k only) b) I am not sure the transaction would go through, now that the whole system gets paranoid when a white face is involved. c) I have never said I wanted to transact in cash, I want to be able to draw my accounts down to zero, any time I want, by any means available, without any racial discrimination.

Until you are in ICU asked to pay a 500k deposit for a triple stent angioplasty... Someone here, in that situation, had his wife running around to borrow money from friends...

Until they do. But then they will address the issue by making the use of PCs illegal for white skinned foreigners. Just as they made mobile banking useless for us.

Use a VPN.

Had zero problem with Bangkok Bank until they introduced face recognition, which worked after two hours and 50 tries. Then when I wanted statements (4 years) for my FCDs, they had to produced them one by one, one a day... Which bank woul you work with for FCD.

Yes of course, thuggery to the highest level...

When the Thais give numbers such as 10 to 15. Even 700 is totally unrealistic in ground combat, where neither side has made any progress. Don't say airstrikes, because there have been I tiny number of missions flown...

Da Nang

TACO?

Ohh.. I thought Thai didn't have any syntax. Just bags of words. But that's only from the way the wife makes up her sentences in English.

Well, if that's policy now, it sucks. We should all rethink our banking and possibly rely more on non Thai resources. A hell of a headache though. I have a joint account, FCD, credits card here...

Yep, also what is your visa type, are you married to a Thai?

I did, opened an account with Kasikorn, and two month later they that I couldn't use more than 50,000 of my money in any given day... Useles IMO.