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And things got worse: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmj2r1403jpo Didn't realise that the organisers had employed Joe Biden to announce the teams!

By the same token, if Somchai in the local TRD office decides that 'rich Falang' who does not file a tax return (even though his total assessable income is in excess of the relevant threshold) should be punishable not by a 2,000 THB fine but instead a lengthy stretch in the Bangkok Hilton, again said Falang has "very little (none really) legal recourse to challenge that decision", even if he owes no tax, it seems to me.

In particular those who are adamant that tragedies of this sort can only happen in Thailand and never ever in any other country on this great planet of ours..

Sounds to me like they're hedging their bets!

Plus taxing us to the hilt.

Suggest that you put this question to IMM when you visit them. If, in the light of what they tell you a non-O conversion for retirement might prove necessary in due course, the following link contains info as to how you go about seeking one: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf

There is also the option of applying for a non-O visa conversion at Bangkok as set out in the following link:- https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/9.FOR-RETIREMENT-PURPOSES-50-YEARS-OLD-NON-O.pdf For this purpose no 2-month seasoning of the 800k in your Thai bank account would be needed. However, assuming that your initial permission to stay would be granted on the basis of a 60-day visa exemption, you would still need to provide evidence of an onward/return flight (as stated by DrJack54 in the context of a single-entry non-O visa obtained in your home country) when checking in for your flight to Bangkok at your home country airport.

Correction: it is actually FTT (standing for Foreign Telegraphic Transfer). Not sure whether any of the remaining banks indicate the foreign origin of monthly 65k transfers in a similar manner, though - meaning that the OP might need to obtain credit advice notes unless his monthly transfers are to be made into a Bangkok Bank account solely in his name.

But in the case of the 65k monthly income method for retirement extensions do Kasikorn have a distinctive code to denote the foreign origin of monthly transfers in passbooks as required by IMM (akin to Bangkok Bank's FTT code)?

Based on your Bangkok Bank and Kasikorn experiences it would appear that where you live might also be a significant factor. In other words Hua Hin is not the place to live if you want to open a new bank account, whereas Bangkok is! 😄

They do have a textphone number (+44 (0) 191 218 7280) you could contact them on if that would be better for you. https://www.gov.uk/international-pension-centre

Oh really? You can actually renew from Saudi online according to the step-by-step guide at https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passports. Beats the antiquated and cumbersome procedures we're forced to follow when renewing from Thailand hands down anytime, I would have thought!

Or bumped off the flight altogether if it's been overbooked.

Nope, has to be 20 crisp 1,000 THB (or alternatively in your case 22 crisp £20) notes

Upon reflection, I don't think that we need have too much fear about what this particular individual might have to say, whoever he might be! EDIT: The remaining trio are now on my Ignore list!

It is, I think, to be seriously wondered whether, compared to those who believe that UK Civil Servants collectively have the brain cells of a mouse, mice collectively are, in fact, members of Mensa! 🐁😇

Might be a tad difficult to self-declare at your local immigration office instead during business hours, though, since all offices are closed between 9:00AM on Sunday 21 July and 9.00AM on Monday 22 July (the second date being a public holiday)!

You do all realise that you have personally insulted all those members on AN who are retired civil servants, myself included, with these comments, do you? Well done, chaps!

As evidenced by the frequent reports on here from those who have been erroneously tax-coded by HMRC on the basis of being in full receipt of annual triple-lock increases on their State Pensions!

Maybe our safest course of action would be to place this particular quartet on Ignore?

The following link sets out the hoops which would need to be jumped through in the case of us Brits: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/claim-personal-allowances-and-tax-refunds-if-you-live-abroad#information-youll-need-to-claim

And @AdamWest1974 might, of course, have even more wriggle room than 10k if his planned 450k transfer(s) for this year include both assessable (e.g. State and company pensions) and non-assessable (e.g. Government pensions and income earned before 1/1/24) items!

Anything we can do in order to waste the TRD's time is surely to be applauded!😜

Well that alleged requirement does not appear to be any bar to our Irish cousins living in LOS being able to renew their passports online. In fact online is the only way in which they can do this nowadays! https://www.ireland.ie/en/thailand/bangkok/passports/how-to-apply-for-a-passports/ Unfortunately I'm not holding out much hope, though, for those dimwitted reactionaries in HMPO who are responsible for inflicting the current antediluvian renewal procedures on us Brits living in LOS to cotton any time soon on to the fact that we are not, in general, a bunch of Luddites who are totally incapable of using their online facility for passport renewal purposes (the use of which they seem to be encouraging practically everywhere else).

More a case of their HMPO masters back in the UK wanting you to be "suitably impressed at such an efficient service", I think. Who are they trying to kid?🤣