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Did you fill out the visa number on the entry form ?

LOL, never. My name would then be on a list of foreign agitators. Keeping your head down in this place is essential.

I wonder what his position is on the recently announced tax reform.

There are plenty of options, I picked a set up from JIB. It has a USB adapter on one end, and they are wireless without bluetooth. I used to have a fancy set of Panasonic wireless headphones which plugged into the headphone socket which I purchased at least 10 years ago but they seem to have stopped making them - they weren't cheap - maybe 4 or 5 thousand Baht. But this new set I purchased from JIB was cheap, can't remember the price. Has a charging cable as well which the old panasonic model didn't so I was loading AAA batteries into that thing every couple of weeks.

But that's 300 Billion Baht

The whole situation is an outrage.

Yeah, there were plenty of cctv and security companies around in 1999. I had no idea a teacher was expected to fill in as a security guard overnight - were they also expected to work the following day? I've never heard of anything so tarded in my life.

Use AT? What's AT?

It's simple, I live in Hua Hin. They come here for months and pretty much all of them do extension of stays. The immigration offices here are empty in the summer and packed full in high season, you know - when the tourists come.

I did go to the local Hua Hin immigration office, the main one, not the satellite office in Bluport which was staffed only with 'deputies' which is how they described themselves. Also, on the subject of 90 day reports I do believe I was issued a new one. Now in Hua Hin you don't need to fill ouy any kind of form to do a 90 day report - you just hand over the passport, say 90 day report and they print it out. So I have no idea if it can be done at another branch.

Best to transfer it over to the new passport, based on what happened to me they transfer your extension and most recent entry stamp into the new passport. Then you will need to go and do the new extension which should be straight forward. I did not do both of these things at the same time but maybe that's possible depending on where you are and how many hours you want to waste sitting in a tourist filled immigration department. As for my driving license, I did nothing - I'm not going to that place until the full 6 years are up. I did however update my bank with the new passport details as I had also moved address some 5 years prior and figured I could kill 2 birds with one stone.

Do it in June 2024.

Maybe we should get an MP in the British parliament as well, I note that the French provide this for their expats in various places including the UK.

Indeed, I'm on my second 5 year visa term and have extended my membership by an additional 15 years so I will receive another 3 of them when this second one expires next year. One thing to note is that the visa never goes beyond your passport expiry date, so if you've got 2 years left on your passport it will expire on the same day as the passport and you need to go and get another one for your new passport by either leaving the country or going to one of the specially annointed places that handles these visas which may be 100's of miles away from where you live. I also believe you can get the next visa sticker inserted during the last 6 months of the validity of the current one in your passport - this is the newest piece of information I've learned about the whole thing.

Well simply put, about 10 years ago you could pop back to the UK once a year and get a 1 year visa by walking into one of several consulates around the UK, pay about 100 pounds and you would be good to go for 90 day trips up to a year. The reason for visiting Thailand was 'Visiting friends' and that's all you needed, nothing more and it took 10 to 20 minutes to get the visa stamped in your passport, they didn't use stickers at consulates - it was just a big rubber stamp. I have a few of them in my older passports. Then they stopped that completely and started issuing all sorts of edicts about the number of entrances in a year which were also never done before. That was the writing on the wall. People routinely lived in Thailand for years on 30 day entrance stamps and / or back to back visa entries, they also overstayed for years and paid a fine when leaving the country every once in a while and nobody cared. Then they decided to strap on the jackboots and put an end to it all. So it used to be a free for all and each option was gradually removed and restricted. I couldn't believe it when they started auditing bank accounts for minimum balances in the prior 6 months - just for an extended winter holiday. So I got an Elite visa and forgot about the whole thing.

This exact scenario was discussed by a lawyer on a youtube video in a youtube channel named 'Canadian Working For You' From memory he said that the money MUST be both 'made' or realised AND remitted in a year when you're not a tax resident to avoid being taxed on it. So sell your shares or house for tax free gains and send the money in the same year is the message but make sure you're not tax resident. The idea was put forward that if you earn money after Jan 1, 2024 and are tax resident at the time of 'earning it' but in later years you remit it into Thailand then you will be taxed on it if it's not taxed at the same level already where it came from. If that's profit from a house sale where a lot of countries charge 0% then the difference between the home country and Thailand is going to be full income tax vs 0% But maybe I don't remember 100% - so watch the video if you want. The full video is 28 minutes long and is here :

Don't you mean, spend 179 or less days in Thailand and MAXIMISE the amount of money earned and remitted during the years where you spend less than 179 days. I haven't quite decided if I will be taking a couple of 'long holidays' this year myself but I will do so in the next couple of months. Then if I take the long holiday as I won't be a tax resident I can submit as much money as I want knowing that it's 1 Earned in 2024 2 Remitted in 2024 3 I am non resident in 2024 No need to apply for a TIN as non resident. Same applies to any subsequent year

Almost certainly - without that visa he was probably facing outright denial of entry. The writing was on the wall for this kind of thing 9 or 10 years ago which is why I started using the Thailand Elite visas.

You're a wind up, I suggest you stop interfering with posts about other peoples experiences. Did it ever occur to you that some elemnts in Thai immigration are doing anything they can to deny as many people as possible - like they often did before the pandemic. They were denying entry for all sorts on nonsense reasons, using laws that didn't exist. Then they were humbled for a few years as the economy was crushed back to the stone age. Now it's back to business as usual and the denying resumes.

I bought a few of these from amazon.com last year : The products listed in the OP are obvious fakes which is very common with storage sold online. The above Kingston drives are now less than $100 - these used to cost $1000 and up only 5 years or so ago and they were bulkier as well. I've got a few of these and they perform well.

I would like to see a comparison for the month of Decembers Covid death figures each year from 2020 to 2023 inclusive to see if it's getting better or worse. Comparing December with November is nonsense.

If you're considering doing bad things but 'resist' as you put it then that in no way makes you a 'good' person. It makes you a bad person who hasn't yet acted.

Nope, no gossip in the Thai language facebook groups either.

Good, they should leave it alone.

Nonsense, it's anecdotal at best - for all you know I could be making it up so you shouldn't rely too much on anything you read here. There is currently a massive wave of covid sweeping across Thailand since a few weeks ago - lets face it - if anyone gets any kind of ailment where the symptoms match pretty much exactly then it's highly likely to be a part of the same huge wave of illness spreading everywhere, especially on a night like New Years Eve.