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Similar to my Cdn pension. My Thai wife will receive 37.5% of one of my pensions.Aged 45+....but taxable income. There are provisions to have the tax liability waved but you must apply.At todays ex-rate about 11-15k/month. Not much but house etc paid up.

I've had the same TM30 slip stapled to the back of my passport for a many years now. I've left and re-entered LOS a dozen times.I've never bothered with immigration and there have never been any consequences. To be ignored IMHO.

Never felt a thing

They obviously share contacts because I received cold calls for years afterwards.

In years past while working O&G sector I was in contact with a somewhat shady " UK conultant" based in Bkk. He wanted a 2% fee to manage my investments. I found out later the co. he was representing was bogus and the BIB were tracking them down all the way to Singapore. I dodged that bullet. One of the products was a high interest bond from Australia that got exposed as well.

Is it worthwhile for a UK pensioner to relocate to the Pp to establaish the higher rate then spend 6/6 months in each country ? I suppose everyones situation is different ,married,single etc. I've been to the Pp years ago with friends an none of us cared much for what we saw. The Yanks were just leaving Subic and Mt Pinatubo had blown its top the year before.We got ripped off at every turn and cut short our visit and returned to the LOS. That was 30 years ago so maybe it's changed.

I have a gut feeling my plan just may work.Like someone posted earlier, only 4 million out of 71 mil even pay any taxes here. Maybe my wife will have to join this elite group with the 40k/mon I remit to her. Time will tell. I also feel this may become an administrative nightmare for the RD considering all the different nationalities,languages and DTA,s involved.

Back of a napkin: A marriage visa requires 40k/mon or 480k/year. TEDA@ 500k. Wifey gets the other 40k.How does this look? BTW I'm not from UK but a former colony.

@Startmeup I like your way of thinking.My pensions total 80k monthly.I use Wise to bring it here.I'm thinking I'll send 40k to my account and 40k to my wife's account.I'll gladly pay what little tax that will attract.I also have the option of using an ATM to withdraw 40k and good luck to them catching me.There are over 100,000 ATM's in LOS.Does an alarm go off somewhere when a foreign debit card withdraws cash? Another scenario:Billy Bob gives his gf family 200k for "sin sot" , do they run down to the RD to declare this windfall...? 555

influential figures LOL Who? Tony T....HAVIN A LAF

Standard garb will be issued just before the plane lands, wheelchair,neck brace,arm sling and a few other props. Quick trip to the police hospital VIP ward for some unforseen jet lag...rinse and repeat. What a place we call home...

I'm afraid Mr Trink (aka Night Owl) has left us and he no longer "gives a hoot"

In the past I would book a flight to either PP or Siem Reap for a week to avoid Songkran. These days I just stay close to home and only venture outside for necessities in the AM.

I've been using the 00500 prefix for a few years now.Cheap and almost always good connections. No muss no fuss.A couple baht/minute AIS

Me thinks they're trying to figure a way out of the mess.How not to proceed without losing face. Blame it on.....?

Yes I'm not bashing them because I still shop there but I don't but meat there anymore. Their bakery is pretty good.

Several years ago I was lined up at a kiosk at the boarding gate for a flight to Tripoli and a suit slid up to me and politely asked how much cash I was carrying?

If he has 500k in USD cash I'm thinking there will be more than a few eyebrows raised.He definitely has to declare it no matter what or risk being detained and the cash confiscated. Is he here on a tourist visa or ? Something just doesn't add up. If he has 500k in THB he'll have to exchange it somewhere before he can spend it...even Laos or Cambodia. Maybe a Myanmar General gave it to him for safe keeping. sheesh

I moved to Pattaya in late 2004.They were working on Beach Rd then and ever since. At that time they were drilling horizontally to bury the cables. These are all "make work" projects IMHO. Another example is the meridian cement curb smack down the middle of Thepprasit Rd.Why? Jomtien was quite acceptable I thought but now you can expect years of construction along there. It will most likely ruin a few businesses as collateral damage.

It's useless anywhere but here.. I had 20k cash in Canada a few years back and changed it at a currency exchange.They didn't want it at first but in the end gave me a very poor ex rate.Big mistake on my part. Whenever I used to go to Cambodia I always bought USD here to take with me and never any issues.

Forget Foodmart for beef steak.I bought a frozen rib eye and when I was cooking it I began to realize it was one continuous piece of meat like a string? It was shaped like a steak but hand formed from some off cut. I was very pissed off with this crap! I should have taken a pic and exposed them.

You've left out the SAS operatives strategically located at several beer bars in Pattaya

Besides it will be a dead giveaway if they spot the sleeping bag.

This unfrozen Canuck remembers ice forming on my eyelids walking to school in winter on some days. I rarely complain about the heat anymore. And no,not uphill both ways.

The issue lies in the fact that in the LOS that if the BIB get involved in the negotiations they will want their cut of the booty.