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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
Glad for you if it you can make it stick. My LTR visa was ignored (shoved aside?) by TRD, as I've described in my own OP thread some weeks ago. -
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My avocados are getting lost in translation
Well this is about what to put on an online form as special instructions when I order avocados. In person, I don't see asking sellers to know how many days till ripe. If they won't let me touch them, I'm not buying them anyway. So if you touch them you know if they're ripe or near ripe or too ripe / rotten. If they're firm nobody can predict ripening time because often they never ripen well at all. I find if they take many days, usually they ripen directly to rotten. A lot probably has to do with how they are stored in Thailan which likely isn't always optimal. -
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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
Yes it can and it will - see my post above. But IMO it will not be a problem for 99% Expats - probably - I think - I hope. -
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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
No. Check out Jeff Gunther's youtube channel - 2 months ago he interviewed a TRD Official who is working on the new global taxation system, and an Expat Tax 'consultant'. Well worth listening too all the way through - it makes it clear that 99% of Expats are OK. This was before the recent announcement - but she seemed to know it was coming. Note that the Expat consultant guy was still 'drumming up business' back then so ignore much of what he says and listen to the Thai TRD Official. Also note being Thai she never disagreed with some of the things he said - but her silence and lack of agreement said enough. Back to the point of the OP. It was disorganised, disjointed and incompetent, the way that TRD and the Thai Govt responded to all the Expat concerns about the change made in Sept 2023. That is one of the many reasons that Thailand is no longer the 'flavour on the decade' when it comes to Expat retirement locations. They still did not clarify or apologise - they just removed the TRD GM and then changed the rules for 2025 and 2026 after realising they had badly screwed up - both for Thais and Expats. One of the BIG reasons why places like The Philippines is so much more valued these days, is that they look after the Expat Retirees by having The Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA). This is the Philippine Government organisation that is responsible for managing the Special Resident Retiree's Visa (SRRV) program, which allows foreign nationals to reside in the Philippines indefinitely as retirees. They deal with all the complicated and conflicting Government Departments and Offices. If Thailand had something like that, then this income tax issue and so many others would be sorted out so much better. But No - Thailand creates a semi-business to sell all the Visas (BOI, Elite Visa, etc etc) and all they care about is making money - that is why it is all a total clusterf****** here in Thailand. -
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Should you DOWNVOTE every single post?? Yea, probably!!!!
"My source". This is not a murder investigation. You sound absolutely ridiculous. Again, they are little icons, made up of pixels. Get over yourself. -
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