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You're supposed to 'transfer' your entry and recent extension stamp over to the new passport at immigration but you can also take both the old and new passports with you when you leave. I last used the two passport method some time ago - like 13 years ago or something, since then I had another new passport and did the transfer at immigration during the covid lockdown periods.

Yeah perhaps, I think they might also report account throughput but can't remember for sure, was a while back when I looked at it in any detail. There's a lot of people who seem to think that whole transaction level bank statements are sent automatically - that's not what happens. There was also something different about the volume of the account and how it's treated, if you have got like less than a million (dollars I think) in or going through your foreign account in a single year then it's treated differently to the big guys. But what exactly are you talking about here? Thailand sending details to your 'home country' or your home countrys bank sending details to Thailand?

Once a year, account balances on accounts at end of year, now this is the important bit this will happen where you have told them that you're a Thai tax resident. If you have a bank account sitting in England with an English address on it like many of us do then they're not sending anything to anyone, ever.

Those two aren't mutually exclusive, they could quite easily both be true

Interesting that they seem to take a 'last in, first out' approach to the foreign account. I can't see them returning to the old style system but even if they do I guess simply paying whatever they deem due will get rid of any restrcition. I read elsewhere that there's something like a 3 year backlog of audits - are people supposed to wait 3 years and travel nowhere? For me it's going to be a very simple calculation, zero tax paid anywhere else so all remittances are taxable if I stay for more than 180 days and get a tax id. I will then pay whatever is due but I'm going to send a massively reduced amount of money in order to control how much I pay.

Nonsense

Perhaps you would like an audited statement of his account? Why? Are you looking for people to rob? That's the first 'vibe' I get when someone asks a question like this.

Yeah, that didn'thappen did it. I went to stock up on Cognac a few weeks back and the whole alcohol section at Gourmet Market was closed off during the prohibition hours. Not planning on drinking any of the stuff for days as I already had some left I couldn't help but feel the rule is somehwat returded.

In fact having read up on this a little more it does look like it was never an actual 'law' to begin with - just an interpretation / ruling by the RD at the time. In other words - this 'following year' thing which can be referred to as 'Resolution 2/2528' because that's what made it the rule back in 1985 is just a memo like the one they recently issued reverting it.

It is not easy to find information about this and why it came into being. I have been looking myself.

Correct, it's going to be interesting once the lawyers do get hold of this though. However I feel that won't happen until well inside 2025.

Not really, the law still stands. The law if I remember correctly is very specific about this subject, it's not some little oversight or loophole, it was addressed directly. Zero taxation from prior years. Signed. Sealed. Delivered. To change a law requires a vote in parliament and there hasn't been a vote, not yet anyway.

Yes, the only problem with that is that it seems to override a law which was voted on in parliament - and you can't do that with a memo.

I don't know anyone like that but you're right, there's definitely a lot of knuckle-draggers out there.

I wonder how many people who took lemsips also eventually died of it?

I went out for beers on New Years eve and developed a 'cold' on Jan 3, it's still going now but not too bad. It is however nothing like the one I had back in July which was considerably worse.

lol, who cares

I thought it was a list of contacts from his literal phone book, lists of people who's phone numbers he wrote down - so anyone he ever phoned could be on there. If it's the same list that was leaked last year then it's going to be pretty meaningless.

That's not much tax for a while year, this is pennies to a central government.

Normally the police simply enforce the laws which are made by the politicians or 'lawmakers' Because it's the job of elected officials to change laws, not appointed civil servant bureaucrats.

I doubt it - how do you think the Chinese would feel about that unless they get 90 days as well? They're not going to accept it and when that happens they pull the plug.

Low level workers rarely have access to all the information on file about you.

lol, of course not.

Yes. The rest is irrelevant, they were guilty of exceeding the exact description of what was on their work permit. The undercover aspect of people lying in wait posing as customers and waiting to pounce when a chef does something not 100% chef related, and instigating it - they were immigration police posing as customers in one place. They didn't arrest anyone - it was only about money.

Good point - my wire arrived today, just under 250k Baht, I sent it last year and it arrived on the first banking day of the year, today.