More unrealistic fantasies from the TAT at least it got me laughing when I read the article now let’s see what tomorrow brings all I can say if I had that sort of money they are banging around Thailand would definitely not be on my list there are far nicer places 

What a big dream and joke this is. If the get few hundred will be much. 

Another monkey idea 

God help Thailand from these lunatics ????

1 hour ago, scubascuba3 said:

Can we ban the use of "well heeled" phrase, it's an annoying thaivisa type phrase

 

What’s wrong with using this particular phrase?

TAT homeworkers squad have nailed it this time. ????????

1 hour ago, Joe Farang said:

What happens when the 10 years is up ?

You are very optimistic to think this will last 10 years,....tomorrow or next week they will change there mind already,....T.I.T. ....(This Is Thailand)

Yawn...!.????????????????????

I just ran a poll of CURRENT falangs:

 

High Skill Set:    can drink 10 beers in 10 minutes.  Negotiate a bar fine to 200 baht.  Use Tinder with their left hand.   Ride an elephant while drinking, smoking, with a ladyboy behind them.

 

Very wealthy:   600 baht for lunch is considered VERY EXPENSIVE to 99% of all falangs.

2000 for dinner would destroy their budget for 84 days.

 

Digital Nomads:  The poorest of the poor.   

 

I will show them 10 bitcoins from one of my wallets.........boom, who's the man!!!

 

now get out there and get rich falangs.......nobody want poor falang!!!!  

How about business owners who not only pay personal tax but company tax and employ people? Those do not qualify ? Need to go through idiotic visa extensions every year ? And of course do not need to buy land to call it a home .

 

good to see yet another perfect example of brain not working before speaking 

I believe it when I see it. See the castration of the Phuket Sandbox model after the TAT has sent it to CCSA and the PM for approval.

TAT is known to sprout a lot of wannabe ideas to justify their existence and please their superiors.

 

1 hour ago, Guderian said:

 

Before anybody rushes into this scheme, they should pause and reflect just how Thailand has treated all the retirees with pensions who are living here during the vaccination programme. If your idea of paradise is to retire somewhere that the authorities regard you as less important than homeless people, and where they're happy to play fast and loose with your health, then yep, Thailand is for you.

But you are less important than  the homeless people, they are thai and you are not. This is thailand, Thai first.,or do you think u are more Important??????????????

#1 seems fairly straightforward except for the 20-hours a week part.. that to me would be very very hard to fairy, easily and objectively measure that and do so in a way that facilities compliance/enforcement.

 

#2 seems easy enough… you can check for compliance by requiring a certified copy of the foreigners PD90/91 each year before extension is approved.. that way you can check how much was earned and that taxes were paid. 

 

#3 sounds like we end up back kind of where we are now with some foreigners not being able to sufficiently “prove” their pension income.. so this option to work, there will have to some kind of system that thai thai authorities will recognize and foreign governments/entities will adopt as well.

 

I’m all for new ideas, but i think there’s LOTS of leg work on this one before i could say it has any reasonable chance of becoming an actual law.

3 minutes ago, Ventenio said:

Negotiate a bar fine to 200 baht.

OMG......seriously ?

ROFL.

I had to doublecheck so it wasnt 1st April

What a f****ing joke. I doubt that any of these idiots have a clue what a digital nomad is! Do they really think that vast swathes of nomadic millennials who are work independently are employed by mega corps or in the financial industry. LOL. Putting aside all the dumb influencers and travel bloggers, Robin Hood traders and you’re left with designers, programmers and copywriters or translators who often dropped out of college early because they found they could earn decent mint from skills they taught themselves. Nobody with any getup and go now dreams of working in a mega corp. Net outcome of this initiative if it every got beyond consideration;

 

Super rich: already come and go as they please

Digital nomads: real ones already come and go as they please, target group: 0

Early retirees: already come and die as they please

High skilled: already working in better establishments free of an archaic corrupt hierarchy.

the daily dose of optimism for the optimistic from the hub of optimistic optimism 

1 hour ago, rhomber said:

I do not feel welcome here

After 28 years here, me too. It aint what what it was.

The biggest issue (as to you have eluded) is that they could just change a law overnight, and if you have an issue with the law in this country how can you get justice as the law and justice don't always go hand in hand here, especially when its us and them.

Giving retirees the ability to work sounds as useful to me as ensuring billionaires are paid at least the minimum wage.....

1 minute ago, ttkeric said:

Giving retirees the ability to work sounds as useful to me as ensuring billionaires are paid at least the minimum wage.....

True...the last thing I want to do is work!!!!

1 hour ago, Thaifly88 said:

As for buying Thai land - no South East Asian country allows this - this will be retracted soon, they are not serious , just using it as bait ????

I agree. Even if it gets approved it will end up being something like leasehold or only on land approved by the minister of interior. There will be mountains of paperwork and permission involved - all setup to make life hard.

24 minutes ago, NightSky said:

 

What’s wrong with using this particular phrase?

There's a list of annoying phrases you only seem to get on thaivisa, that's one of them, lately with the change in BMs less of them are quoted

Will this come true? 

1 hour ago, KhunBENQ said:

If you have properly done your ~400 90 day reports and likely a yearly "show funds" appointment, they might consider extension ????????

 

400?

 

Did you add an extra zero for dramatic effect?

1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

Look,Prayuth Chan-ocha right "wing"man..or as we better know him..The watch man..;-)

 

2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

 

This is what happens when you legalise smoking weed... LOL ????

Without even looking at the article:
How much for this scheme?  ????

Drum roll..............................

5 minutes ago, Andy from Kent said:

 

400?

 

Did you add an extra zero for dramatic effect?

Sorry, yes. Only 40 ????

2 minutes ago, connda said:

Without even looking at the article:
How much for this scheme?  ????

Drum roll..............................

<slide whistle, cymbal crash, Canned Laughter>

8 minutes ago, Eastsider said:

This is what happens when you legalise smoking weed... LOL ????

Since when is smoking weed legal in Thailand?

As expected, they set the bar very high but faced with little success with such delusional demands, the tens of millions will become thousands or only hundreds. Thailand is a destination for packpackers, the rich can't stand the rude, xenophobic, and wild dumps of household garbage in their path.