Total Startup/yearly Cost Of A Thai Compan

[MattFS218]

I'm tired of doing visa runs and want to consider forming a Thai company and having it request a Non Imm B Visa for me. What is the costs (filing and fees) for forming a company in Thailand? What are the yearly (accounting, etc) costs for running the company year to year? How much in taxes need to be paid to get a non-imm b visa for an American? How much of this can be avoided, if I do 90-day visa runs and skip the 1-year extensions?

Has anyone done a price comparison, because double entry tourist visas, forming a thai company for a non imm b visa, and marrying a thai for a non imm o visa? I'm curious what the price comparisons are between the 3 options.

--matt

[dreaminthai]

I'm tired of doing visa runs and want to consider forming a Thai company and having it request a Non Imm B Visa for me. What is the costs (filing and fees) for forming a company in Thailand? What are the yearly (accounting, etc) costs for running the company year to year? How much in taxes need to be paid to get a non-imm b visa for an American? How much of this can be avoided, if I do 90-day visa runs and skip the 1-year extensions?

Has anyone done a price comparison, because double entry tourist visas, forming a thai company for a non imm b visa, and marrying a thai for a non imm o visa? I'm curious what the price comparisons are between the 3 options.

--matt

Due to minimum wage, staff requirements, business profitablility to remain eligable for second year visa application, accounting fees, registered capital etc I would estimate a first year costing in the region of 500-600,000 excluding the registered capitail of 2m. Ongoing business just breaking even (ie not new start-up) you could expect to pay 300-400,000 per year.

I would be very interested to see other peoples responses as very few accountant will tell you the over-all cost up front.

One expat friend calculates on 1/3rd of invoiced transactions going to the man.