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And I see that this thread was started on 18 February. So even more inexcusable, I think, for you and @aussienam to hijack the PI thread in the way that you did, in flagrant and blatant defiance of @Mike Lister's express wishes and resulting in its closure.🤬

Would we be correct in inferring from this that your local office is Jomtien?

Other way round, actually!

A certified English translation thereof, I think!

Could have fooled me!

Yep, easy to carp negatively from the sidelines, isn't it? Not quite to easy to single-handedly pen a 73-para document, though.

You will already have paid capital gains tax to HMRC on the sale of your UK property, and, since this is covered by Article 14(1) of the double taxation agreement between the UK and Thailand, there is IMHO no need for you to declare the sale proceeds once remitted to Thailand as assessable income for the purposes of any tax return you might be required to file with the Thai RD: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80bddc40f0b623026953eb/uk-thailand-dtc180281_-_in_force.pdf That said, it is possible that the RD might eventually be alerted to any sizeable remittances arising from your property sale and require you to provide evidence that these do not, in fact, relate to income which should be classed as assessable. FYI I am still in the process of remitting to Thailand the proceeds from the sale of my UK property a couple of years ago in (sizeable) dribs and drabs, and have decided to hang on to all papers relating to this sale, together with all subsequent UK bank statements, in case I do get challenged by the RD at some point. I would strongly advise you to do the same. Personally speaking, I would not have thought that any of this should be a material consideration to the timing of your move to Thailand.

Could be that they reset your reporting clock as part of that process without telling you. That certainly happened to me at Rayong last year! EDIT: @NoDisplayName has already made this suggestion, I see!!

That's more or less what I also told the Co-op back in 2018, but I did also give them my HMRC UTR number for good measure. However, rather than go through all the hassle of obtaining a local TIN from my local RD office soley in order to satisfy my home country bank, I would be sorely tempted these days - if specifically pressed by them for a local TIN - to merely give them the 13-digit ID Card Number stated in my COVID certificates!

I bank with the Co-op, and back in 2018 they required me to complete a form which is presumably similar to at least one of those which Smile have sent to the OP. No big deal really. I stated my TIN as being the 10-digit UTR code used for my tax returns to HMRC, and the Co-op seemed happy with this.

Yes, you are correct. According to AIS I was running up against a 5,000 THB maximum limit on my prepaid balance, of which I was previously unaware. Mods - maybe this thread should be re-titled along the lines of "Maximum balance on AIS prepaid SIM's is 5,000 THB"?

Has anyone else been receiving the attached error message as I have following several unsuccessful attempts today (Tuesday)? And is the culprit more likely to be AIS, rather than Bangkok Bank, given the advice in the message to contact the payee if the problem persists? BKKB AIS error message.pdf

A further option, as referred to by @Liquorice, would be to return to Thailand after 6 June with a 30-day visa exemption which you could then convert to a fresh non-O visa for marriage at your local immigration office, as set out in the following link:- https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/6.FOR-PROVIDING-SUPPORT-TO-OR-BEING-A-DEPENDANT-OF-A-THAI-CITIZEN-SPOUSE-VISA-NON-O.pdf

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/pension-age-retirement-women-compensation-government-b2516222.html Fat chance of the UK government being prepared to cough up £10.5bn in order to compensate these women when they are balking at stumping up the rather more modest £600m needed to unfreeze our State Pensions, I think!

But that would not, I think, be necessary if the pink ID card included the most vital piece of personal information relating to foreigners here in Thailand - namely the date when their current permission to stay expired.

Which would appear to mean enlisting the services of a trustworthy solicitor as suggested by @Liquorice. But, there again, maybe the OP could help him out with that given that they appear to be such good friends!

Which immigration office in your case, please? Just wondering whether "Please contact the nearest Immigration Office in person immediately" might be some standard CW response to all online 90-day report rejections (which, if CW is also your office, would probably indicate that it was not). The response I received from Rayong to the rejected 90-day report I referred to in my previous post was the rather more meaningful (if terminologically incorrect!) "Latest visa extension was on 20 July 2023. Next 90 day notification will be on 17 Oct 2023".

Which immigration office are we talking about in this instance (if not CW who have acquired a notorious reputation for the extremely leisurely manner in which they process 90-day reports submitted by snail mail)?

As confirmed by @MJCM in the following thread, based on personal experience:

Just be aware, though, that the change of reason will result in your next extension being dated from when you apply for it rather than from when your current permission to stay subsequently expires. Thereafter, subject to there being no further changes to the reason, future extensions will, once again, be dated from when your latest permission to stay expires.

This, I think, is the DT-Individual form you refer to: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/637e192f8fa8f56eabf75e5b/Double_Taxation_Treaty_Relief_Form_DT-Individual.pdf Can't see the RD attaching much urgency to providing the necessary certification, and they could well require a certified translation of the relevant section into Thai at our expense in any event. And once the RD have provided the necessary certification HMRC might well require a certified translation of this back into English! Another point worth making, I think, is that UK pensioners seeking tax refunds from HMRC will almost certainly need to file tax returns with them (as well as with the RD) - for possibly the first time ever if all their post-retirement income has hitherto been derived solely from pensions. And since they are deemed to be UK non-residents for taxation purposes they will need to enlist the services of commercial software providers (at further personal expense) if filing tax returns to HMRC online. IMHO this has all the hallmarks of a bureaucratic nightmare for British retirees who are in receipt of company pensions in particular!

"Third country" is a term which has been dreamt up by those EU "geniuses" in Brussels to mean non-EU (and mainly Western) countries whose nationals are not required to obtain Schengen visas as a prerequisite to having the temerity to exercise the right to set foot on their hallowed turf.

Military pensions are covered by Article 19(2)(a) of the UK-Thailand Double Taxation Convention: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a80bddc40f0b623026953eb/uk-thailand-dtc180281_-_in_force.pdf then scroll down to page 27

And, sadly, from 3 days' time now it will be a case of RIP With-It Tower Passport Renewal Experience.😢 Still working on the new place, though - but at the moment I can't get over The Shoppes at Belle Grand Rama 9 sounding rather like the name of a Shakespearian shopping centre located in Stratford upon Avon 🤔

We State Pensioners living in LOS are only subject to the rigours of this shining example of UK Government excessive bureaucracy every couple of years or so. Expect to have the next instalment inflicted on us around this time next year, I think.