moogradod

Thanks. So your case is "nearly" the same as mine. Exept for the small detail that you are British and I have learned here that the UK has special regulations. But as you have never paid even tax over there, your case should be exactly the same I suppose. I do not pay tax in Switzerland anymore since I have officially left the country forever and I am not a Swiss citizen as well. Not sure about their willingness to issue a letter similar to yours although Switzerland and Thailand have as well a DTA.

And you may add to Retirement and Marriage as well Thai Elite (now Prestige). So your main worries are as well mine. Payment is not the problem. But I do not want to approach the RD before all open questions are answered. So far Thai Elite has many times been advertised as tax free. But this seems now definitely not to be the case, only certain other Long Stay Visa. So for preparation I do need the most professional accountant / tax specialist there is in Chonburi or I really get seriously disturbed in the mind. Or may I safely relax for some more weeks ? Anybody knows someone with real expertise and possibly connections to the RD ? If Yes then pls. mail. Thanks.

Did you get this letter because you have requested it or did they send this by themselves ? I have as well a German passport and I will have the next (and first) contact with the embassy or consulate here when I need to request a new passport in a few years. My current passport was issued by the German embassy in Switzerland from where I receive as well a state pension directly remitted to my Thai bank account. I have not been living in Germany since more than 50 years. and have therefore as well no income from there. I stay here since several years. I am as well not required to pay tax on this social security pension in Switzerland because I left this country definitely.

It is up to the Swiss how they do it (it is not from any account I would have there) and I think they would only transfer to a Thai account with my name.

Thank you for answering. Makes sense. But am I correct assuming that this was so far not enforced ? And will be from 2024 on ? At least this is what I have heard from multiple angles as well as here on AN. So it means that I will absolutely need to make my first tax declaration until March 2025 covering the total of social security - state pension - of 2024 ?

Do you mean if I receive a monthly state pension (social security) directly from Switzerland remitted to my Thai bank account and then transfer the money to my wife as gift (maybe in one go at the end of the year) I do not have to pay Thai tax ? It is less than 20m Baht ???? I do not pay tax for that in Switzerland because I do not have a Swiss passport (so no DTA involved, I do not need to look what in such a DTA were written) nor in my "homeland" where I was born since I do not have an adress there, either.

....... if paid before Jan 1, 2024 and remitted from abroad only - maybe. Too much scaremongering especially on no solid basis in this thread I think.

I believe this cannot happen in any lawful environment. You cannot change any law backwards. This would mean that it would be theoretically possible to double all your taxes ever paid effective from tomorrow and send you a bill over a few millions over the amount thus calculated over the last 30 years. Or send you a traffic ticket for driving on the wrong side (right) of the street yesterday because the law driving on the left side was changed retrospectly. Of course it is possible to change and reverse certain things in laws - like in our current case from Jan 2024 - but not for before that date (backwards). There are countries like North Korea for example where everything might be possible, but only against universal law.

Thank you very much that you took your time to answer so clearly and actually answer at all. As said above, more and more AN members seem to concentrate on not so really helpful answers. Yours is more than helpful and actually the highlight of the day. My wife has her own house in Chonburi, so this means that she would be covered in Chonburi Hospital under the 30 Baht scheme automatically. I will further investigate if this requires still a registration at the hospital. The baby of my Stepdaughter (I am a grandfather somehow !) was born there, too. What did confuse me is that she said, that her old registration in Sikhio for the house which stands on her own land but is registered on her father (the house only, the Chanote is hers) does not need to be modified, but this is Thai administrational logic and complexity. Will sort that out, too. Her ID Card is for the Chonburi adress. I wish you a nice evening.

It is my stepdaughter only, but thanks that you took your time to react ! I really mean that - not selfexplanatory at AN nowadays.

But not necessarily under the 30 THB scheme I suppose. So far so good. The question arises - can you change "your" government hospital to the nearest/best of your home adress ? This question is actually for my wife who was born North East and we are living now in Chonburi - same for my Stepdaughter. Since the family is all the time sick (me anyway, but I am a foreigner) - the nearest option is the BHP - and this adds up. I guess we have spent milllions all together over time - and I really mean millions.

What if the baby was born in Chiang Mai but living after in Southern Thailand ? Do you have to hop into your car with an acute appendicites or even worse - heart attack ?

One of the highest fully Tantric initiated and practising Tibetan Buddhist Monks.

Is this not always the case ? Or did you want to say that the stop sign may be disregarded at will and is rather a proposition than a fixed rule ? (I have to bite my tongue to not elaborate further, but I guess everyone knows what I mean).

Type 1 means that the pancreas does not produce any insulin at all - therefore this type needs insulin in any case. Type 2 is different and the still existing production may be only badly affected. But if no oral medicaments help nor a change of lifestyle to encourage more insulin production, then Type 2 needs as well insulin.

Bananas are high although they do not taste too sweet and I would agree on strawberries - they pose no prob. I would be careful with blueberries - if I eat 0.5 kg of this stuff I need a hearty portion of insulin to get my bloodsugar level down again. I am a diabetic type 2. They seem to contain a large portion of sugar or some other element that elevates your sugar level. The problem is that I love blueberries and the Big C Extra here does import blueberries from Peru that are really exeptional which I cannot resist.

Many of the posts here pertain to specific situations of either US, UK or Australian citizens. Because this is an English speaking forum and because these states have somewhat peculiar rules (example: every US citizen must pay tax in the US regardless of his home-adress etc.). And therefore the specific DTA come as well into play. But there are other states and retirees from other countries. Example (fictous): A citizen of Sweden has lived his whole life in South Korea and is now retired. He is entitled to a state pension (not government pension) from Korea directly payable to a bank account in Thailand. The money is transferred directly every month from a Financial Department of Korea into the account. The Swedish citizen has a passport still valid some years and has never lived in Sweden. He will have his next and first contact with his embassy in Thailand when he applies for a next passport. So, if there were DTA between Sweden, Korea and Thailand in place they would not have any significance for him since he is neither tax resident in Sweden althought he has a Swedish passport nor Korea because he does not live there anymore. But he has been more than 180 days in Thailand and did and does receive the Korean Pension remitted directly. What would be the best approach to get the maximum out of it or to prevent even possible harm ? I am not sure if the CRS would more confuse than clarify. The Thai RD would maybe inform Korea where he is neither registered nor tax resident. Or Sweden where he is neither registered nor tax resident either. Korea would probably inform Thailand. Both know of course the name and the bank- and acccount number as well as the living adress (not the RD, but the immigration) . The Swedish guy has no tax number by the way.

Looks impressive, but my (limited) experience shows that Supermarkets and Vietnam in general do not really fit yet. The selection over there is terrible. Most shelfs are filled with the same product. This gives the impression of a large variety offered. But I would have difficulties to get the food I wanted would I be forced to cook myself. Reminds me of old pictures I have seen from East-Germany before the fall of the curtain. I wish them good luck with their new concept. Urgently needed.

I had a prostate biopsy two times. The first time it was done by my urologist who did as well all yearly tests. It came out negative. But the trend of my PSA made him still suspicious so he called his friend, who was the vice-president of the Urology of the Hospital of the University of Zurich. He made a second deep biopsy under anestesia. I did not feel a thing, they gave me Propofol and all that stuff. The result was devastating. 45% of the prostate was cancerous and above that the samples did show highest agressivity (measured in Gleason-Score - I had 8). I had to undergo immediate surgery which was done using a da Vinci robot. The doctor postponed several other appointments for other patients - mine had become first priority. In the 7.5 hour surgery, they took as well samples from my Lymph Nodes and none had been affected. So with this catastrophic diagnosis I am still alive 12 years after the total protastectomy and show so far no sign of what is called "biochemical relapse" (PSA rises again indicating that somewhere something is growing where it should not). I would say nearly a real miracle so far. But to concentrate on the topic of the OP: Biopsy may have its risks but I recommend rather doing it if the slightest doubt arises.

Impossible. Must be a misinterpretation (or "misunderstanding" as they seem to call such mishaps), especially the part "whether it was remitted to Thailand". I rather believe that the earth is flat or the Orange One is an alien. What has Thailand to do with what I earned some years ago somewhere in this world when I was at the time neither resident nor tax resident here ? What is the next thing they "require"? Could be anything it seems. Ridiculous. I guess this could be safely disregarded.

It is actually @TroubleandGrumpy who said this, but lets assume that you really did not pay tax for lets say a few years, 4, 5. Do you then think it is better before December 31, 2023 to approach the RD to declare that instead of occasionally get caught in 8 years if this seriously worries you ? It could well be that many are in this situation. I have even heard the story (nothing but rumour of course) of someone who wanted to declare this pension but was sent home by RD. They said at the time it was too complicated for them to verify when what was paid when and did not even provide him with a tax ID. But this may be just a story (which I can hardly really believe I must admit).

What size of tank ? I hope you are talking about LPG gas. I am as well interested in the lowest price. Needed for my Wok Cooking Station.

Monaco maybe ? Or the Caymen Islands ? Depends on your financial reserves if tax is overly important. You may as well negotiate a tax deal with one of the Swiss Cantons (corresponds to the Thai Provinces, but they have own tax regimes). This is why so many real rich people live in the Canton of Zug where all the big Commodity Traders gather. The Cantons have very different views on this topic. And if you can affort to have a nice villa on the Cote d' Azur you might as well have a house on the Caymans or in Geneva

As soon as a will is involved, the inheritance situation changes anyway. Do yourself a favour and spare worries and money for tranquilizers for the moment. Probably you will need them later. I had to look into details of inheritance and tax before we moved here. You have little chance to filter out the truth by yourself. So I engaged a NUMBER of the most renown internationally operating consulting firms - and I BELIEVE that I got it right in the end - of course based on the existing rules at the time. From what I read here about any planned new future rules there must be more than a bug in it - some things are misinterpreted for sure. Cannot be otherwise. There are as well contradictions. But I want to leave it like that, my stash of medicine has nearly run out, too.

If the gift is from savings (which must always be based on income at some point in time anyway and which is always to somebody else then yourself - in the best case the wife) and which has been taxed abroad prior to sending regardless of the year it was sent, then the receiver is (was always) liable to income taxes. The important point here is, that there is this tax exemption until 20 Mio/year. These are tax free - at least some years ago this was the case. And of this I am sure. Now if you do (did) exactly that nobody in the world can introduce a rule which acts backbards. This would be like if you got a speeding fine some weeks ago, pay the fine and then get another higher bill based on the same event applying a rule that was introduced after the event happened. From a defined point in time in the future this may of course happen.