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Sorry, xylo, missed out on answering this query until now. Unless you've already been to your Area Revenue Office for a TIN, I suggest that you ask your Thai daughter to call them on this point. I certainly wasn't required to provide any proof of address at my Area Revenue Office, but, as in the case of Immigration, what goes at one particular office may not necessarily fly at another, I strongly suspect!

Have they also re-introduced the requirement for international insurers to sign a certificate confirming compliance with some obscure Thai cabinet resolution as in the case of the original 400k/40k version, thus largely restricting policies deemed acceptable to rip-off ones issued by TGIA members in practice?

As does the super-inflated ego of Ms Chayawadee's boss, the BOT Governor, who seems overwhelmed at the present time by an uncontrollable urge to afford the very highest of tip-top priorities to bragging to his Western counterparts in particular just how much more successful he is than they are in maintaining the value of the currency for which he is responsible just as high as is humanly possible! 🤑

Like this lot, perhaps??

Not to mention foreigners who commit the apparently far more serious crime of missing a 90-day report!

If the source was assessable then taxable, but if non-assessable then not taxable, I would have thought. So would depend on the individual financial circumstances of those intending to make deposits.

And you, for your part, have also expressed your opinion, which is tantamount to scaremongering par excellence IMHO. Have you actually heard of any instances where retirees were rapped over their knuckles (or worse) for failing to report back to their immigration office exactly 3 months to the nearest nanosecond after lodging their latest retirement extension application if using the 800k bank balance method? I most certainly have not!

The OP doesn't appear to have an existing account with NatWest - and the likelihood of him being able to open a new one from Thailand is zero!

It would also be extremely nice if you were able to provide a number greater than zero of income confirmation letters issued by the Embassy in a previous month!🤑

By no means did all embassy letters stop - only those issued by the AU, UK & US embassies. To the best of my knowledge, all remaining 75 embassies listed in the Wikipedia link below still issue letters for their nationals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_in_Thailand Draw your own conclusions about the (un)willingness of the renegade Anglo trio to go the extra mile in complying with the Immigration Bureau's IMHO not unreasonable verification demands, which their remaining 75 counterparts have presumably somehow managed to accomplish with minimal extra effort!

The ironical thing is that the more the THB's value rockets against most Western currencies, the correspondingly less the TRD will be able to screw most of us for tax in THB terms!

Same with me at Rayong in July.

Hopefully the following link will assist you in identifying the relevant area revenue office in your case: https://www.rd.go.th/337.html I would also strongly advise you to get a native Thai speaker to accompany you on your visit since, based on my experience of obtaining a TIN a few months ago, staff at TRD area revenue offices tend to have a minimal (at best) grasp of the English language. There is a highly complex and detailed form which needs to be completed exclusively in the Thai language as part of the process.

Here's a checklist I wrote down for myself following a similar experience some time ago, which may be of help to you: (1) Press Menu on remote (2) Scroll down to 6th item (= Setup, marked by spanner) (3) Press OK on remote (4) Scroll down to 2nd item (= User Setup) (5) Press OK on remote (6) Scroll down to 2nd item (= Language Setup) (7) Change items 1-3 & 5-6 to English, check item 4 = Enable (if possible) (8) Press OK on remote

But unfortunately these will be without the physical bank stamps so essential for IMM purposes.

Or that a significant additional requirement has been imposed on it - as in the case of mandatory health insurance which was abruptly slapped on non-OA visa holders past and present a few years ago.

Whereas you are, on the other hand, more than happy for more American and European bureaucracy to spice up your life through ESTA and ETIAS when travelling to the USA or Schengen Area, right?

And no more horrors of the passport renewal process for us Brits every 10 years (or considerably less in some cases)!

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I did, thank you very much. So what is your point then? Do you really seriously believe that anyone on here has actually opened accounts with each and every Thai bank with the sole purpose of comparing their respective internet banking services?

But in his OP he does say: Definitely not SCB or KTB in answer to his question, then, since both these banks have pulled the plug on internet banking. Bangkok Bank's facility does the job pretty well in my experience, although I don't know how it compares to Kasikorn's, Krungsri's, etc. And, as alluded to by @anyone, opening an account with Bangkok Bank in particular might prove easier said than done these days.

Unless, of course, they are on-shore accounts held by non-resident expats.

So which immigration office is it, then, that's seemingly prepared to bend the rules? And how much extra might you have had to "donate" to their tea club for this purpose?

Except SCB and KTB.