Has anyone gotten a DTV working with Chiang Mai Muay Thai Gym specifically? How was the experience? Thanks!

Hypothetical: I have secured the DTV and live here for a year or so… I then decide to move to another country for a couple of years before moving back to Thailand.. do you think the DTV would still work?

I’ve got no plans that far in advance just curious as 5 years is a long time.. the last 5 years I lived in Bangkok 2019 for 2.5 years and Sydney for 2.5 years before moving back to LTOS!

Does anyone facing show fee 0 when going make payment?

It's so strange for that 😂

My delima: I'm planing to move to Thailand first of the year, I'm getting different seneros on visa's from legal firms there🙈.

Some say I must do the 90 day non immigration O (evisa) before I come, then change to 1 year retirement visa after I'm there.

Others say I can come on the normal visa (60 day tourist visa) then once there I can convert to the non immigration O visa then convert to the 1 year retirement visa.

I'm from the US and want to visit a few places before I decide where I'll be living. Doing the first option limits the time I'll have to find the right place.

Any thoughts? Anyone know for sure?

Thx for your help.

With regards to showing the proof of funds 500k or more would they accept a stock market portfolio? Maybe you guys have heard of Etoro I have ample funds in there would that suffice do you think?

LTR question (if an income tax on 2024 expat remittances into Thailand isn't delayed).

If after living in Thailand six years, an expat receives an approved Pension LTR in September 2024, does the LTR tax-free exemption take place in:

1) the tax year beginning January 2025?

2) the tax year beginning January 2024?

3) beginning September 2024 (pay tax on remittances from January to August of the 2024 income tax year)?

The answer could be beginning tax year 2025, but the LTR tax exemption wording is a bit vague.

I messaged BOI and they replied:

"According to the Royal Decree, governing reduction of Tax rate and exemption of Taxes (No.743) 2022, Section 5 : Income tax shall be exempted for foreigners have been granted a Long-term resident visa derived in the previous tax year from employment, or from business carried on abroad, or from a property situated abroad, and brought into Thailand.

However, regarding the Tax matter you are advised to contact the Revenue department for more details."

From what I have heard many local Revenue department offices have not had a chance to become familiar with the LTR and might not yet be able to help.

Text from decree:

"Section 5 Income tax under Part 2 of Chapter 3 in Title 2 of the Revenue Code shall be exempted for a foreigner categorised as Wealthy Global Citizen, Wealthy Pensioner, or Work­from-Thailand Professional who is granted a Long-Term Resident Visa under immigration law for assessable income under section 40 of the Revenue Code derived in the previous tax year from an employment, or from business carried on abroad, or from a property situated abroad, and brought into Thailand." (Strange that here, it only mentions employment, business and property income.)

Also note that this next section says that the exemption is suspended in the tax year that you do not comply with exemption rules.

"Section 7 In the case that a foreigner has applied tax reduction or exemption under this Royal Decree, and later does not comply with rules prescribed in Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 in any tax year, benefits will be suspended in that tax year."

So a bit odd... if you have the exemption, you are suspended effective in the current tax year but when receiving the exemption, it is not effective as of the current tax year.

What about volunteering in Thailand?

i have a wat i work with. they have helped me greatly and when i go there in person this year, i’m planning to offer to help them with anything they may need a hand with.

is it really true you can’t help monks and practice merit as a farang? it’s against the law?

how does this on any way protect thai workers and how is this even appropriate? i thought wats and monks were given some special preference. how can they deprive them of farang helping them out around the wat?

Seems kinda un-Buddhist

Edit: i’m kind of bummed out how this thread is going. Nobody knows what they’re talking about first of all, second, people aren’t even reading what I wrote or getting the right idea of what happened. I’m talking to my teacher who is ordained at the temple, I’m trying to go help out at. They thought it was a great idea to help out, and give some merit that way as well as the money I already give. So drop all these weird posts please with all the bizarre assumptions

Hello seekers of a better life! I’m not sure if anyone has the same situation as me here, but I am currently in Thailand on a non-B Visa and experiencing issues with my Visa agent. As such it makes more sense for me to stay in Thailand under the DTV Visa as I have limited company in the UK and would meet the requirements. However, as I am not currently residing in the UK, which is where my passport is based can I leave Thailand and do this at one of the consulatesin Vietnam, Laos or Myanamar.

Any help would be much appreciated from someone who might have been or be in similar position.

Sorry for the anonymous post but it has to be this way so I’m not defaming my agent.

I am currently living in Thailand working as a remote online contractor for a UK company. However I don’t get official pay slips etc. I could get a employment contract but I am worried if they ask for more information such as pay slips I won’t be able to produce them. How often do they ask for additional info like this? I’m planning on applying in vietnam.

I am considering just going the Muay Thai soft power route. It will basically double the cost of getting the DTV but it seems much more likely to succeed.

Does anyone have any advice?

Two questions about destination visa for Jakarta:

1) I'm a freelance with multiple clients, i have contracts of collaboration with them in italian.

Do i have to translate these contracts in english?

2) About the clients portfolio, would be enough a scan from my personal site with the name of my clients, their logo and the job that i did/do for them?

I ask here because i can't access the thai embassy site in Jakarta