Chitchat Business - 10 mins - Thailand's new Remote Working Laws - How to protect yourself

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In our new Business ChitChat, we explain Thailand's new labor law amendments related to remote working, some suggestions on how to manage remote working, work permit rules and appropriate visas.

Visas: 
https://www.expatden.com/thailand/tha...
https://smart-visa.boi.go.th/smart/ 

 

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[BritTim]

Note that this addresses almost exclusively people working for a Thai employer. The situation for the typical digital nomad, working from Thailand with clients elsewhere, remains the same. The SMART visa is not appropriate for the vast majority of them. It remains a grey area, where your activities are not strictly legal, but are tolerated., with the authorities recognising that your presence in Thailand has no negative consequences, but being unwilling to help you with suitable visas that would clearly be open to abuse

[VBF]

2 hours ago, BritTim said:

Note that this addresses almost exclusively people working for a Thai employer. The situation for the typical digital nomad, working from Thailand with clients elsewhere, remains the same. The SMART visa is not appropriate for the vast majority of them. It remains a grey area, where your activities are not strictly legal, but are tolerated., with the authorities recognising that your presence in Thailand has no negative consequences, but being unwilling to help you with suitable visas that would clearly be open to abuse

Quite!  And, whilst not advocating lawbreaking, how on earth are the authorities going to know anyway? Unless a DN overtly states that they're working, all that MIGHT be seen is them sitting at a laptop for several hours...and if they're doing it in the privacy of their own accommodation............. I guess that's why it's "tolerated" - the authorities have little choice.

[BritTim]

1 hour ago, VBF said:

Quite!  And, whilst not advocating lawbreaking, how on earth are the authorities going to know anyway? Unless a DN overtly states that they're working, all that MIGHT be seen is them sitting at a laptop for several hours...and if they're doing it in the privacy of their own accommodation............. I guess that's why it's "tolerated" - the authorities have little choice.

There is stronger evidence that the authorities have no interest in targeting digital nomads. Many of them use co-working spaces, of which there are hundreds around the country. Eight years ago, one of these in Chiang Mai was actually raided. In the end, no one there (most of whom were easily proven to be remote workers) was ever prosecuted. It is widely believed that the raid was a mistake. At any rate, there has never been such a raid on a co-working space for nearly a decade.

Edited February 3, 2023 by BritTim