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Bank Savings Interest Rates 2023
To the best of my knowledge there is no such thing as a 12-month tourist visa. Further, also from what I have read, one can not get 1-year extensions (on one's permission to stay in Thailand) year after year after year on ANY tourist visa. So what you typed is wrong. A tourist visa, for allowing one a permission to stay in Thailand, is NOT as good as a Type-O non-immigrant visa. Yes - I grant that. I have friends (who keep 800k THB in a Thai bank) who always go with an agent to avoid dealing with immigration. Some like the idea to pay an agent for that. Safer? How is that? You edited your post and removed the risk comment. Let me go back in history - there was a time in the 1997 to 1999 timeframe when one could stay visa-exempt in Thailand and never leave the country. One just had to pay an immigration officer outside of 'office hours' and they would handle getting one's passport stamped as if one left the country and returned. Well - eventually that was stopped (immigration officers disciplined) , and those with the particular exit/re-entry stamp in their passport could be in trouble if spotted, ... so I recall reading of some who deliberately reported their passports lost, so to get new passports and not see these 'tell-tale" stamps that were in the old passports. So lets now consider "safer" and "risk" . My view is there is more risk that the time could come that agents will find it more and more difficult to lubricate the acceptance of one's extension (when one does not have the funds in Thailand) .. more risky than having the 800k in one's bank. So safer to pay an agent to likely bribe a Thai immigration official (than stability of a Thai bank) ? .... I don't think so. Now - don't get me wrong. For those who don't have the funds, and who have no choice (if they wish to remain in Thailand) who have to go for an agent - then I say sure ! Go for an agent. All the power to them. But for those who adopt that approach - just to make a few extra thousand Thai baht ? IMHO those going to make the extra thousand are putting at risk those who don't have the money, for if too many adopt such an approach, I believe the risk of a crackdown increases. Sure - its a dog eat dog world - but sometimes one can get bit. So while I support most of those who use agents, we have very different views here. -
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When Willful Ignorance is a Way of Life
Sure, which of the "saliant" points would you like me to rebut first? -
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Have you ever flown while fully baked?
Noise cancelling headphones and all of Bachs Masses -
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Kamala Harris’s Next Chapter: What Lies Ahead After Her White House Exit
I suspect that there will be an election (of sorts) in 2028. I also suspect that it will not be recognisable, certainly conducted very differently. I am also curious as to how the "discussions and ideas" on a "third term" pan out. -
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K bank E-mail with Tax Forms attached ?
Right, I would maybe not disagree with freezing pensions if I could see the justification for it. -
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Trump picks former Soros money manager for Treasury Secretary
And yet, no facts, just obsessive hate. -
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When Willful Ignorance is a Way of Life
Still waiting for an intelligent rebuttal to the OP's post. Are you up to it or not?- 1
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K bank E-mail with Tax Forms attached ?
None that I know of, just there is no agreement in place to give the increases.
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