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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.

Well, I've had to subject myself to the bureaucratic rigours of The Dreaded UK Passport Renewal Experience a couple of times since moving to the Land Of Smiles - and I can assure you that on neither occasion did my local immigration office stick in the replacement passport full-page replicas of the non-OA visa which the Royal Thai Embassy in London issued to me in 2008!

Oh yes, the crippling burden which the weight of the second passport will impose on you! You truly have my sympathies!!🤬

And if hassle day arrives when you're refused entry what would you do then?

My money is on over the road from where the current office is located, on what passes as the office car park. The huge mounds of earth I observed there when obtaining my latest retirement extension a few weeks ago might have something to do with it.

But potential mega-issues arising from reliance on strings of visa exemptions, though.

Strongly suspect that the OP may be secretly hoping for the recent changes at the governmental level to lead to a complete change of heart on the whole taxation issue???

A suitably reliable crystal ball would, of course, provide an instant answer to your question. Alas, however, none seem to be available on Lazada. ☹️

Good luck with that, given the light-touch regulatory regime under which Thai insurers are allowed to operate in the Land Of Smiles!