Taking baht out of the country

[HeijoshinCool]

Is it legal to take physical Thai baht out of LOS? There a limit?

 

Flying out this week.

[kingofthemountain]

7 minutes ago, HeijoshinCool said:

is it legal to take physical Thai baht out of LOS? There a limit?

 

https://www.thaiembassy.sg/visa-matters-/-consular/bringing-currency-in-or-out-of-thailand

 

''For Thai currency (Baht), any person can bring total amount not exceed THB500,000 to any Thailand’s bounded countries and not exceed THB50,000 to any destination countries.

More than that mentioned amount, you have to declare to a Customs Officer or exchange to others currency before depart from Thailand.''

[HeijoshinCool]

13 minutes ago, kingofthemountain said:

https://www.thaiembassy.sg/visa-matters-/-consular/bringing-currency-in-or-out-of-thailand

 

''For Thai currency (Baht), any person can bring total amount not exceed THB500,000 to any Thailand’s bounded countries and not exceed THB50,000 to any destination countries.

More than that mentioned amount, you have to declare to a Customs Officer or exchange to others currency before depart from Thailand.''

 

So exchange for $$$, keep below 10k, and good to go.

 

Thanks.

[Upnotover]

7 minutes ago, HeijoshinCool said:

 

So exchange for $$$, keep below 10k, and good to go.

 

Thanks.

USD20K is OK, from IATA..."Foreign currencies: unlimited. However, amounts of foreign currency exceeding USD 20,000.- (or equivalent) must be declared to a Customs Officer upon departure by all travelers."

[kingofthemountain]

14 minutes ago, HeijoshinCool said:

 

So exchange for $$$, keep below 10k, and good to go.

 

Thanks.

I don't know what you mean by exchange for $$$ below 10K

 

From your initial question i presume you flight out of Thailand

and you want to know if you can legally take Thai baths with you

the answer is yes, not in excess of 50 000 thb

(It's the limit without custom declaration)

 

now you have to look at the requirments of your country of destination, the cash you are allowed to bring with you without any custom declaration could be under this 50000 thb limit

Note that the limit is for all the totality of the cash you are carrying with you during your travel, not only the Thb. 

 

The only reason why you would want to take thai money in cash with you is if you are back soon and you don't want to bother with the xchange 2 times, when you go out then when you go back in the country.

 

You can not use the thai money outside of Thailand and it's not easy to change Thai money outside of Thailand (Plus the xchange rate should be bad anyway if you find somewhere to do the change)

Edited April 26, 2021 by kingofthemountain

[kingofthemountain]

8 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

USD20K is OK, from IATA..."Foreign currencies: unlimited. However, amounts of foreign currency exceeding USD 20,000.- (or equivalent) must be declared to a Customs Officer upon departure by all travelers."

The OP don't indicate what is his destination

if he goes to europe, the limit is 10 000 euros

''If you plan to enter or leave the EU with EUR 10 000 euros or more in cash (or the equivalent in other currencies) you must declare it to the customs authorities. Failure to do so could result in your cash being retained by the customs authorities, and you may receive a fine''

 

[blackcab]

It depends where you are travelling to.

 

If you are travelling to Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Vietnam or Yunnan province in the People's Republic of China you can take out up to THB 2,000,000.

 

If you are travelling anywhere else you are allowed to take out up to THB 50,000.

 

You need to declare your cash to a customs officer if you are taking out an aggregate amount exceeding 450,000 Baht or USD 15,000 or its equivalent.

 

You can find out how to do that here.

 

Your transit and destination countries may have their own declaration limits and procedures.

[blackcab]

In terms of exchange rate, you are almost always going to get a much better rate exchanging your Baht for your destination currency in Thailand if that is possible.

[CharlieH]

MOVED TO BANKING

[pixelaoffy]

And any experience using Dee money or other no questions asked money transfer companies ?

[expatjustice]

1 hour ago, blackcab said:

Yunnan province in the People's Republic of China

 

AFAIK you can't cross from Thailand to China without stepping either in Burma or Laos. Closest distance from Thailand (Chiang Rai) to China (Xishuangbanna, Yunnan) is a good 250-300km by road....

 

So how does this work?

[bwpage3]

Why would you want to?

[blackcab]

1 hour ago, expatjustice said:

 

AFAIK you can't cross from Thailand to China without stepping either in Burma or Laos. Closest distance from Thailand (Chiang Rai) to China (Xishuangbanna, Yunnan) is a good 250-300km by road....

 

So how does this work?

 

Normally by air to Changshui (KMG)or Xishuangbanna (JHG).

[Brierley]

On 4/26/2021 at 7:31 PM, bwpage3 said:

Why would you want to?

Exactly, there is no benefit or logical reason that I can see.

[AlfHuy]

No ploplem.

 

Take yourself 500,000Baht

Give your GF 500k

Her mom 500k

her dad 500k

her brother 500k

her sister 500k

her ex (who maybe is her brother) 500k

 

Book a flight for the whole family. 

Most probably you will fly alone ????

[fdsa]

25 minutes ago, AlfHuy said:

Most probably you will fly alone ????

damn, why you Thaivisa people are so toxic?!

remember - not all bar girls are the same!

[KKr]

On 5/1/2021 at 12:20 PM, fdsa said:

remember - not all bar girls are the same!

indeed, some are not girls,
and some are very honest and lovely but just had bad luck.
 

[mvdf]

On 4/26/2021 at 12:55 PM, kingofthemountain said:

I don't know what you mean by exchange for $$$ below 10K

 

From your initial question i presume you flight out of Thailand

and you want to know if you can legally take Thai baths with you

the answer is yes, not in excess of 50 000 thb

(It's the limit without custom declaration)

 

now you have to look at the requirments of your country of destination, the cash you are allowed to bring with you without any custom declaration could be under this 50000 thb limit

Note that the limit is for all the totality of the cash you are carrying with you during your travel, not only the Thb. 

 

The only reason why you would want to take thai money in cash with you is if you are back soon and you don't want to bother with the xchange 2 times, when you go out then when you go back in the country.

 

You can not use the thai money outside of Thailand and it's not easy to change Thai money outside of Thailand (Plus the xchange rate should be bad anyway if you find somewhere to do the change)

 

It was very clear. Problem with comprehension? He intends to circumvent the 50K THB limit by instead converting his THB to USD which would have a different reportable upper limit. To bypass the reporting requirement, he plans to bring less than 10k USD.

 

I don't believe you're claim above of a reportable amount below 50K THB. This is fear mongering. Almost all countries adhere to the universal 10k USD reportable amount as a minimum.

 

Edited May 3, 2021 by mvdf

[markeewan]

9 hours ago, mvdf said:

 

It was very clear. Problem with comprehension? He intends to circumvent the 50K THB limit by instead converting his THB to USD which would have a different reportable upper limit. To bypass the reporting requirement, he plans to bring less than 10k USD.

 

I don't believe you're claim above of a reportable amount below 50K THB. This is fear mongering. Almost all countries adhere to the universal 10k USD reportable amount as a minimum.

 

Here is a link to the Royal Thai Embassy Singapore site and what they have to say. 

[chicowoodduck]

On 5/1/2021 at 12:20 PM, fdsa said:

damn, why you Thaivisa people are so toxic?!

remember - not all bar girls are the same!

Excuse me....cross out the not in your above sentence.....????????????????

[kingofthemountain]

16 hours ago, mvdf said:

 

It was very clear. Problem with comprehension? He intends to circumvent the 50K THB limit by instead converting his THB to USD which would have a different reportable upper limit. To bypass the reporting requirement, he plans to bring less than 10k USD.

 

I don't believe you're claim above of a reportable amount below 50K THB. This is fear mongering. Almost all countries adhere to the universal 10k USD reportable amount as a minimum.

 

Maybe it was clear for you if you are the OP's friend

afaik he never indicated he was flying to the USA

then all the rest of your comment doesn't make any sense

You are from the US right? I am not, i am not even a native in english

so when someone type $$$$ it could be US dollars, Canadian dollars, Australian dollars and so on

You should be surprised by the number of countries in the world that doesn't have the US system

have a nice day

[madmen]

What are you going to do with it? I took baht to oz and banks won't exchange and the maggot money exchange booths will exchange it with a 50% discount. So I'm going back with the same baht. 

Maybe your country is different