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Would be most unwise for your pal to risk on it being third time lucky in his case IMHO. It's the airline, rather than IMM, that he needs to worry about. Would just take a jobsworth airline check-in assistant in a particularly foul mood next time round to flatly deny him permission to board his oneway flight to BKK without an onward flight booking within the following 30 days.

In that case you'll definitely need monthly credit advice notes, as correctly advised by @Georgealbert. Highly unlikely that Citibank in the UK route your pension payments directly to Bangkok Bank, I think, but rather through an intermediary third bank at the Thai end. You'll need to establish with Citibank who this third bank is since it will be they, rather than Bangkok Bank, who will be responsible for issuing the necessary credit advice notes.

Can't see them getting very far in any event if they're still trying with their username and password for the Mk1 system!

Whenever I suffer withdrawal symptoms, I just head on a flight back to the UK and assuage them through a trip to a Tesco store there.

You should check what codings for these pension payments appear in your savings account passbook. If FTT (standing for Foreign Telegraphic Transfer) you probably won't need a credit advice statement since this particular coding confirms the foreign origin of your pension payments, which is what IMM are primarily concerned with here.

And yet, once you've reported the sale to HMRC and made the necessary CGT payment online within 60 days, you're still required to include in a subsequent tax return a completed SA108 form + detailed computation sheet which more or less repeats what you've already told HMRC online! What's the bloody point of that?

Based on my own experiences of dealng with CGT-related issues following the sale of my UK property a couple of years ago, I strongly suspect that what @KannikaP may well be struggling with in particular is that there are not ONE, nor even TWO, but THREE sources of info on the gov.uk website relating to CGT! https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/capital-gains-tax-uk-property/start/report-pay-capital-gains-tax-uk-property?_ga=2.31492087.898625034.1633235870-1552680673.1629876543 https://www.gov.uk/tax-sell-property https://www.gov.uk/guidance/capital-gains-tax-for-non-residents-uk-residential-property#CGT-report-pay Is it really beyond the capability of those "geniuses" in HMRC to boil these 3 sections down to 1?

By my reckoning about two-thirds of this particular form is completely irrelevant to standard renewals. On the basis that these constitute the overwhelming majority of applications for new and replacement passports processed by HMPO, is it really so unreasonable to expect those particular "geniuses" to be at least capable of devising a considerably shorter version of this form covering only the one-third which is relevant to standard renewals?

What I personally have got against the pink ID card in particular is that it doesn't include the single most crucial piece of personal information in our cases, namely the date when our current permission to stay in Thailand expires. Were it to do so I would be round to my amphur in a flash to check out the feasibility of applying for one (with fingers firmly crossed)!

Link (assuming, of course, that it wasn't the Bangkok Post where you read this)?

Until such time as the pink card can be made to act on an equal footing to our passports for ID purposes (presumably through the inclusion of the most important piece of personal information in our case, namely the date when our current permission to stay in Thailand is due to expire) then it strikes me as really not worth bothering about, as @scubascuba3 has said.

You might be best advised to include a completed version of the following form along with all the other docs needed for your next marriage extension application in any event: https://www.immigration.go.th/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/22.Transfer-Stamp-to-New-Passport-Form.pdf 2 and 8 on the second page can safely be ignored, I think. Nothing can beat the madness of the dreaded With-It Tower Passport Renewal Experience for us Brits at passport renewal time, I think, not even anything which the Immigration Bureau might throw at us!

Not just letting them know his new passport details, I think. Since he plans to enter Thailand with a 30-day visa exemption he needs to check with them specifically whether or not he will be permitted to board his return flight in the absence of a confirmed onward flight reservation out of Thailand within the following 30 days. IMHO he would be strongly advised to purchase a cheap throwaway ticket for an Air Asia flight within this period to a destination in an adjoining Asean country in any event.

Yes, we could well, I think, be the low-hanging fruit here in the RD's eyes. And, given the dual pricing tradition in LOS, could we seriously discount the possibility of being clobbered for tax at "special" foreigner rates which were, say, double the corresponding ones paid by locals?

I suspect that others, though, may have unwittingly had the light shone on them as a result of demands imposed on them by home country banks in the context of Common Reporting Standards (under pain of having their accounts with these banks closed) for specific evidence of their Thai tax residency in the form of a suitable reference number (i.e. a TIN).

If this means that we are going to have to report each and every last satang of each and every transfer from our home country during a particular Thai tax year, regardless of whether or not these transfers are derived from income earned pre-1/1/24 or covered by a DTA, I have to say that would find this a truly horrifying prospect. The obvious question which would then arise is how we could get such income exempted from the return. As I see things, this would almost certainly prove to be a time-consuming and protracted process which the RD would no doubt conduct at extreme leisure, and then only after we had provided them with reams of supporting paperwork (which would probably put to shame the amount of paperwork we provide to our immigration offices each year in support of extension of stay applications). In the meantime the RD would no doubt have gleefully and unhesitatingly provided us with a tax assessment based on the full amount declared in our tax return, and have insisted on 100% payment within whatever tight deadline they prescribe for tax payments.

An interesting point does, however, arise in the case of pensions not covered by DTT's which are directly remitted to a Thai bank account by the home country pension provider (as often appears to be the case on here for UK State Pension payments, for instance). Is it the THB amount appearing in bank statements/passbooks which constitutes assessed income, or a conversion of the frozen GBP amount based on the prevailing BOT rate as at the date when the remittance hits the Thai account (notwithstanding that this will almost certainly be different from the actual THB credit)?

Mike A couple of further points occur to me (apologies if they have already been covered in your revised draft): 1. It might be worth a mention that it is important for us to establish what information the taxation authorities in our home countries might need from us in seeking any tax relief which might be due under the relevant DTT. In the case of us Brits for instance, HMRC require the following form to be completed, including specific input from the RD regarding our tax residency status (this could, in practice, prove a right PITA for those in receipt of UK company pensions in particular): https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1119722/Double_Taxation_Treaty_Relief_Form_DT-Individual.pdf 2. I gather that the RD insist on remittances from our home countries being converted into THB for assessment purposes on the basis of the prevailing BOT Transfer rate for the date when a particular remittance was finalised - which, if true, might also be worth mentioning: https://www.bot.or.th/en/statistics/exchange-rate.html

Apologies if this point has already been raised in the intervening 4 pages, but there appears to be a small - but nevertheless potentially significant in my case - omission in the following sentence included in paragraph 19 relating to capital sales proceeds: "If the capital and/or was acquired before 1 January 2024, it is free of Thai tax." Should this sentence, in fact, include the additional word which I have shown in bold below? "If the capital and/or profit was acquired before 1 January 2024, it is free of Thai tax."

IMHO @hotandsticky is to be congratulated on getting anything out of your rambling post. Are you planning to submit it as an entry for the latest Leo Tolstoy War & Peace award by any chance?

Anyone aged 50 or more is eligible for non-immigrant visas and subsequent annual extensions of stay for retirement, regardless of their official retirement status in their home countries.

In practice this would only have been a requirement as far as a non-o visa conversion is concerned had you and your wife been planning to settle in Pattaya, rather than Buriram! Strikes me that you are now well-set for your planned move to Thailand.

Assuming that the OP is a German national, he may instead be able to obtain a 40k monthly income guarantee letter from the German Embassy as per 7.1. of the Immigration Bureau's list of requirements for marriage non-o conversions: 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 @Sparkling - below is a link to details (in German) of the notarisations and certifications provided by the German Embassy in Bangkok, which hopefully includes pointers as to how you go about obtaining the necessary letter should you be interested in pursuing this particular option: https://bangkok.diplo.de/blob/1394716/23a3dbb1493e7ef375d7ae931b627050/beurkundungen-und-beglaubigungen-data.pdf Alternatively a link to the Embassy's home page (again in German) is as follows: https://bangkok.diplo.de/th-de

This concept, which was much-espoused by Tony Blair and his cohorts, was subsequently firmly knocked on the head by the Cameron/Clegg coalition government. Each individual component part of The Great Government Machine (including HMRC, DWP, HMPO and FCDO/Embassy) now appears to be acting under orders imposed by the Cabinet Office (which has the overall responsibility for its allegedly "smooth" operation) to confine their activities exclusively to matters which fall strictly within the purview of their particular silo, with blinkers firmly fixed so as to prevent any "undesirable" sideways glances into neighbouring silos!

Equally likely, of course, is that these 2 pathetic specimens of female Western humanity could instead have told the Thai tourist to f*** off (or worse).