What are the penalties for overstaying a visa in Thailand?

If you make it to the airport you are fined 500 baht a day max of 20,000 baht. If you are caught, you are caged, courted, deported, and banned for 5 years or more.

500 baht per day. If only one day they will waive it. 3 days is ok. Anything more that 10 days can get you jailed and deported they do not care what holidays had the place shut down

. .when you are in the process of leaving Thailand at the airport, you won't get charged a penalty if your overstay is lesse than 24 hours. The penalty becomes due if your overstay is over 24 hours. Then it will be 500 Baht for every day, the maximum being 20,000 THB

FIRST: you don't "overstay a visa". You technically are overstaying the "stay permit" you got stamped when you entered Thailand, no matter on what kind of visa or visa-exempt. . . . . . . . . . . the overstay rules are as clear as Missisippi mud:

For Thailand to only want the rich and elderly and it getting to the point to where it's not even guaranteed even if you have a DTV Visa having to bust your rear end to stay here no matter the cost pay or situation or Reason I'm just about ready to go to Cambodia and live there I know it's dangerous very very dangerous there but Thailand still is very dangerous just not as dangerous but if we give tourism to Cambodia eventually it'll become a much nicer place it's little bit too late for most people that are coming here because five years ago it was so much easier even for me on disability being 29 years old to have somehow edged out a loan or something to have gotten me a 5-year visa and possibly even been married by now but it's just getting so arbitrary with the visa laws it's about time we help the rest of Southeast Asia anyway there are other places that are also very beautiful and also places here in Southeast Asia that have ancient cities and artifacts and other things still buried deep in the jungles and hidden just like in South America so the opportunity for people wanting to document and things like that are almost Limitless especially with this side of the world having as much history as it has

Does anyone know what happened to the man that over stayed his visa by 26 years, lol it was in the news he was arrested but after that don't know,

You could end up in a detention cell, but then you might not, but up to you

Never, ever over stay

That is if you report to IB, if you get picked up with an expired visa the penalties are much more severe

500 baht for every day overstay I was 6 days cost 3000

It can also be a deterrent to obtaining a long term visa like the elite visa

500 baht per day fine up to a max of 20,000 baht.