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So you think she has her passport in her pocket and not kept safely in the court?

If you were a Thai tax resident during the year it was earned of course. Which is where the trap is set - someone sells their house next month (Feb 2025), moves to Thailand in March 2025 and remits say 10 million Baht and remains for the rest of the year looking for a house or condo to purchase will be hit with a large and likely unexpected bill. Best to make sure all potential retirees are aware of this and they never send large sums in a year they made the money, especially if it was zero taxed, like in the case of selling your main residence back in the UK.....If they've already been taxed to death in Europe then they should be good 🤣

Perhaps, however the best way to proceed would be to just dump the bags and leave without them if he was running a scam. No way a smuggler would ever call the cops, they would just run. When watching documentaries about this sort of thing in the past the luggage is usually handed over to them just before they leave and they are supervised exiting the country, perhaps with someone else following on the same flight. So it doesn't add up - maybe everyone involved here at each level of the scheme is an idiot - I wouldn't rule that out at all.

Didn't Elon fire Farage already? 😂

The period they can audit you for changes depending on your history of filing. I believe it can change from 5 years to 10 years max depending on how long you've been filing for. Not entirely sure how many years of filings are required - but I think it may be 5. So 5 years of filing zero returns ends any possibility of older audits....in theory.

No, I'm just saying it's not new, this is an old video where they talk about things that happen next year - in that context they're speaking about 2025. Considering today is January 27, I think this is worth mentioning as the video only went up today. There were some mixed messages in there too where the subject strayed from retirees / non working expats to people employed in Thailand when it came to talking about immigration. It's a valid and potentially useful video which covers the same old stuff we've seen a hundred time before though.

He's not that clever, if someone asked me to carry some luggage through the airport they would be met with an instant 'go <deleted> yourself' response.

This recent video was definitely filmed in 2024, they mention 'next year' and between 'Jan and March' filing multiple times throughout the video. It's subtle but it's there several times. I suspect the video was filmed in December or earlier, edited and then submitted for approval by those in the video prior to being released which only happened today. So there's nothing 'new' in there but there wouldn't be anyway as nothing changed recently at all. Also one of the guys answering appeared to mix up information between people living and working in Thailand and people who don't earn income in Thailand when he was asked about it being linked to immigration status, entering / exiting the country, etc - that part was very unclear. The RD guy appeared to be talking about people working in Thailand where the question was I suspect mostly related to retirees.

The Chinese just destroyed the AI market in the US for the general consumer which is where all the money comes from - the mass market. I think they're (Deepseek) lying about the cost and effort involved but they appear to have given it away as well by releasing the whole thing for free. They claim it was done as a side project over a few months. This is a massive game changer all the same and it leaves companies like Meta far behind. The next step is for people to modify it and alter the built in censorship and bias that comes with all these models regardless of where they originate - which will happen over the next weeks and months. I expect the markets to react to this very negatively, in fact it could be the end of one era and the beginning of a new one.

Could something like this be due to the fact that there was a pandemic going on at the time, it's now endemic Everyone rushes out to get a vaccine at the same time as there's a lot of cases going around. Correlation is not causality, etc.....In fact it could be the opposite of what's being suggested here, more people are vaccinating due to the large number of cases 'going around' in the world. Always remain open minded.

Nothing changed during the last 5 months.

Why did they not run the DNA test when they found her and could not identify the body? DNA tests have been around for a long time now and were in routine use back then.

Yes, why did it take so long?

Indeed, nobody cares. But if you want a passport then it's much the same in both countries. Having to speak the lingo for a long term visa is nonsense - the reason those visas are available is because they want to allow people into the country - not find reasons to prevent them coming 🙄

Will you be declaring the wads of cash portion?

Don't worry, they receive their orders from the elected government and do what they are told - if they don't like it or don't do their job then they get fired and replaced.

When I last arrived in Thailand a few weeks ago there was no TM6 as expected and I didn't run down to immigration to report myself. I had been out of the country for a while. I'll be leaving again soon, immigration won't be hearing from me at all until I leave at the airport. I still have a years old TM6 in my passport. Maybe that's good enough but in truth, I don't care.

It doesn't matter, there is no such rule. Capital gains are capital gains and all are treated the same.

Terrorist caught in the act, remained silent throughout his court appearances and only spoke to confirm that he's glad the children he murdered are dead. There's a few real scumbags inside the British prison system who deserve what will eventually come to them, none more than this one.

Not a chance. This is indeed the issue which prompted me to relocate to Cambodia for most of 2024 Savings is funds from prior to Jan 1, 2024 or in a year after 2024 prior to you becoming a tax resident - now this is the important bit if you already live here in Thailand - also in subsequent years where you are not a tax resident. Everything else is income or partial income (mix of old savings and interest payments compounded over time) and I believe if audited they will want to see the source of the savings and will perhaps according to some people want to look back as long as 10 years - or THESE DAYS that seems to have been reset to Jan 1 2024. So it won't be too much of an issue for now but as the years go on it will be an increasing burden on people living here.

I haven't used it but asked an AI about the procedure and it seems it required USB booting into a special recovery OS in order to do the recovery. Are you in a situation where you've lost a disk and hence all the live date and replaced the computer with a new one?

I've been asked and it was the one time I had a one way flight into Thailand with no planned exit AND no valid visa. Coincidence, perhaps? I had a special letter with me from Thailand Elite explaining in English that I will be met at the arrival gate and taken to immigration where a 5 year visa would be inserted into my passport and I would be admitted into the country with a 1 year stamp. At the end of the day that's all they care about - that they don't have to transport you back without a booking as it becomes an issue for them.

Yes they do and if you don't have the right type of visa they may deny boarding so better to have some kind of onward travel ticket.

This is not correct, it does not matter what anyone else has written on this forum.

lol