JackGats

Since as you say we don't need MORE evidence, why don't you sh*t up?

The butt-spray: one thing about Thailand I miss everywhere else I go! Sometimes in Europe you find a spray next to the toilet. However the length of tubing is unsufficient to use it as a butt-spray. What is it for then? It's for cleaning the toilet! Unbelievable! Why is there a spray to clean the toilet bowl and none to do the more important job of cleaning your butt? This is when I think the Western mind is not as bright as I thought. I find toilet paper AWFUL.

What difference does it make if the woman who takes you to the cleaners before the family court is "bar" or "non-bar"?

Alas, immigration policies in the West are 100% under fem sexual trade-union control. Young personable females likely to attract Western men's attention are unwelcome. Geezers of all descriptions are welcome, especially Coran-retards who can cater to the fems' crypto-rape fantasies.

Really? I'd have thought it was just a magnet for expats fed-up with the retirement visa hassle as well as for those who fell short of qualifying for the LTR.

Thank you for spelling it out: "from an employment, or from business carried on abroad, or from a property ". My foreign income is a pension + capital gains and savings, how does that fit in? Maybe (just maybe) part of it is indirectly "from an employment", but definitely not from business or property! The Royal Decree seems to me like it doesn't just leave out a few things. It leaves out a hell of a lot! A far cry from the LTR hype trumpeting "no taxes on foreign assets/income"

My saga started with my signing up with a tax-filing agency. Said agency not only ignored my LTR status in their filing draft, but on top of that they wanted to file imaginary amounts that matched neither remittance nor dividends! After I decided I'd much better file myself, it was an uphill struggle to get that agency to hand over to me the password of my own eFiling account (loss of face you see). The long and the short of it is, I'm in no hurry to get involved with any (tax-filing or law) agency in TH ever again. In TH you "take a lawyer" and before you know it you find youself having to sue your lawyer. As to the Royal decree being Law, yes it is but what Law are we talking about? With the help of a friend who is proficient in Thai, we endeavoured to find out what kind of income the Royal Decree is actually exempting (quite apart from the "following year" charade). Well guess what? It is as clear as mud. A world away from the blanket tax-exemption on foreign income/assets you see plastered all over the Internet. All it would have taken is for the Royal Decree to specify: "foreign income exempted" (with the possible caveat about the following year). It doesn't though, instead it waffles about "assessable income" and such like.

I did. I "paid" the tax with the dividend refund TRD owed me. Luckily I had only remitted about 12k USD last year. Had I remitted twice or three times that, the dividend refund would only have covered about 1/3rd of the due tax. This year (2025) I'll duck the 180-day mark while availing myself of my non-resident status to transfer more cash. Next year (2026) I'll thus file no taxes but I'll remember to get a "certificate of travel record" for 2025 from IO just in case. As of 2026 my plan is to live off my hoarded cash for 3 or 4 years. Later, if need be, rinse and repeat. I cherish my LTR visa for the immigration hassle it spares me but I now know its much-publicized "tax-exemption of foreign assets" is a non-starter.

Acutally, you can also snort it, smoke it, or even plug it (booty bumping). Even with these gentler methods, overdoses are possible. The media like to project the bogeyman image of the syringe-wielding heroin user.

Sniffling heroin hey? (sniffling mind you, not sniffing). I see you're an expert in drugs and harm reduction.

I don't think tourism in TH is finished. All that is needed is international flights and hotels. To the new world middle-class any destination is ok, for example Pattaya as a family beach destination. It's a pity some country doesn't run following live experiment: 1) Set up a huge landfill as destination. 2) Build ramschackle woodplank hotels around the landfill. 3) Build an airstrip nearby with a few charter flights from the Indian Subcontinent. 4) Count the families who come for a holiday on and around the landfill.

Good for you if you can make it stick. My LTR visa was ignored (brushed aside) by TRD when I filed taxes and asked for a dividend refund this year, as described here in a dedicated thread some weeks ago.

That's very similar to what I was asked on my eFiling account by TRD. Points 3 and 4 were a bit different in my case. I was asked for proof of tax paid abroad and for proof I had not imported funds into TH. I explained why I couldn't provide 3 and 4 (I wrote it down on a piece of paper, scanned the piece of paper and uploaded that). As I explained in a previous thread, I ended up paying nothing as the tax on my sole remittance and the refund I was entitled to cancelled out, at least according to TRD's back-of-the-envelope calculation.

I think the OP got a rare nasty side-effect from the Covid vaccines. The vaccines affected his brain so that he turned into an anti-vax bot. This is one the most vicious side-effects from covid vaccines known to date.

1) It's BS 2) Who cares?