What recent changes in Thai immigration policies affect visa agents and applicants?

Thank you all for the comments, as this now turns into a tax debate, I close the commenting.

I have some mixed feelings about this. First of all, the country doesn't perform this poorly on international corruption rankings without reason. If, at long last, something would be done to address this, one could only be very pleased for the country. On the other hand, what is the likelihood of a Thai from a 'good family' actually being busted for these practices? From what I've heard, they're still immune. Sure, many Nigerians and Indians etc will be deported. Good publicity as usual. I've heard of people who came to Thailand decades before the tourists discovered it, long before visa's were introduced, who lived normal lives with their families and were sent home for 'overstay'. But I never heard of anyone tackling the problem of the sex-tourists, pedophiles and common criminals who come to spend their money in the Kingdom being targeted. Maybe, if the country becomes a democracy again, we will see if anything will change for the better. For the time being, all that appears to be changing is that the junta is treating non-wealthy foreigners the same as they are treating non-wealthy Thai nationals.

Several times in the past three years Thai Immigration has publically announced that they were going to eliminate illegal stays, overstays and illegal working. And they have been progressively doing just that. I don't see how it could be a surprise to anyone.

There's a nasty atmosphere in the country right now.

It can backfire. Ayutthaya was once known as a "cooperatative" branch office and the mere name in your Extension meant getting a closer inspection

So the next step may be that Savannakhet and HCMC going to introduce the minimum amount on the Thai bank. The net is closing for those without money to stay inside Thailand,

Something tells me, this isn't going away this time.

And now they say they are going to follow the paper trail back to those that got the visas and made false declarations 🤔

They should to announce scheme to give settlement to immigrants living in thailand for long long time.

So there will be no need for visa runs and ease for families.

Ironically these visa agents advertise there services in the Bangkok Post

We have a guy here doing this. It's about time