LivinLOS

It isnt tax free if you are here >180 days in the calendar year.. repeated entry or not doesnt matter.. Boomers get the LTR visas, tax free in law, unless this DTA also gets an exemption posted in the royal gazette its just as taxable as any other class if you stay here most of the year.

Annually (which makes calling the report 90 days a bit mad but yeah 😉 )

Theres multiple LTRs not only LTR retirement.. High Net worth, talent / high skilled and work from Thailand also

The costs incurred are less of a concern the time I need devote to immigration incountry.. I dislike that process intensely so if some costs like insurance and a police remote mean I dont need to, thats a deal I am happy with.

Only on remittance tho.. Anything left offshore remains there tax free. It is the imported portion which is taxable.

Yeah too late now.. My travel would mean I couldnt collect any visa awarded.. Will revisit the whole idea later in the year, Maybe even Jan next year when I will have 12 months of clean passive income to show, in a super simple month by month same payment format. Of course the lack of a tax return might be it, but the BOI lawyer in the video call indicated as long as I could document it fully then it should work. He did understand living here and not bringing in funds same year means no filing.

Even funnier is what about 'dry herb' weed vapes ?? So smoking weed is ok in every other format, but smoking weed in a vape isnt ??

But there is my frustration.. I have never had access to any 'reps' the entire thing is online and the refusal lacks any explanation whatsoever. Could be anything large or small.

I did.. As I have discussed in other threads.. Despite easily qualifying in every way I can see, and providing proof of all the qualifications, its been denied without any explanation (in fact a refusal to explain) with the cheery 'please try again'.. No document requests, no questions on any aspect, and a total refusal to say what they were not happy about ?!?! I now no longer have time to try again incountry and have set up a clearer once a month passive income payment (my application had 3 income streams from 3 countries) to maybe aid compliance. Either way its summer holiday time to UK Ireland and mainland Europe, when my current extension will expire and so I need something easy to return with. An OA gives me plenty of time without having to deal with local immigration to retry my LTR in Jan (when the 8k a month EUR passive income payment will have a year of proof) is my current semi plan.

Agree the BOI visa seems to have some overlap here.. Rather than just throwing things at the wall to see what sticks, with different application routes and authorities in charge, clarifying and setting clear standards makes much more sense.

Yeah I actually have friends who do a lot of BOI based work and applications who have offered to help.. I am kind of bloody minded and stubborn and tend to like to do all my visa things myself. But possibly BOI and lacking connection to it maybe I shouldnt be so independent.

Because I likely will be in and out and the 2 years without talking to local immigration is appealing.. Costs are not relevant really. End of the year will probably redo the LTR application to attempt 10 years without going to a local immigration !!

Yes it was just during the video call he was adamant it was sure, when I said ok so this is in law then, there is a legal exemption for LTR online work.. He started backtracking saying 'we have an understanding with the labour dept, you cannot get in trouble'.. Which was very reminiscent of what the elite folks used to say and many elite visa agents still maintain, despite being 100% wrong. I then went to the local labour dept here in CM and asked them and they said absolutely no way any work is still work even on LTR visa.. Same thing said by a well known Bangkok law firm.. The BKK law firm even said "the BOI doesnt get to make the law, the law is the law".. Which then makes me wonder about the remote worker category, where is that in any law which says you can work online for that visa.. I have never seen it.

Its conceivable this is why mine failed.. I uploaded a bank statement but not also a 12 month old bank statement. The fact that they wont tell me just leaves me guessing.

As I am in Chiang Mai its a trip but I was recently in bangkok and would / should have done.. I wasnt aware they accepted people as walk ins for advice. As said before even if I gained it now I wouldnt have ability to go and collect it due to travel plans so will review the process in Autumn.. I also started paying myself an 8k EUR a month, simple clean single payment for IP rental from one source company so there is an easy to understand 96k EUR passive income, as my income was made of many streams and perhaps they didnt like that.