ThoughtfulLychee5096 Thailand is not a third world country, this classification is outdated anyway, but if you still want to use you should classify Thailand as "second world" and the average salary is about USD 375, but that is irrelevant because they don't want to attract average Thai salary people.

Just look at requirements for other visa and you can conclude THB 65k is what MFA thinks is appropriate as monthly income.

For some reason they have doubts about your job and income.

You mention you showed income from a "foreign" company.

Did you show a contract with salary mentioned in it?

Did you show monthly payslips?

Remember it is not up to you to decide the money is enough to live in Thailand, but up to them, you did not mention anything about the income, only that it is less than average, but not if it is substantial less.

@Rogerio *****

You applied from a (rich) western country, with most likely a reasonable income and OP comes from a poor neighbour country wit a low income.

Without saying is this is correct, that might have a lot of influence.

Anonieme deelnemer Personally I think they are afraid that with such a low salary you want to work illegally in Thailand, and therefore finding reasons to reject you.

Anonieme deelnemer 682 How can yuou pay soft power from a 25K THB salary and pay for living in Thailand? That will also raise questions

@Andi **********

Or rejected, the point is embassy employees have to form an opinion about the applicant, and then all impressions together make them decide.

They may wonder how you can get 500K having such a low income.

When they have doubts they can just reject and don't need to tell a reason.

Tax residency in itself is very simple, stay at least 180 days, not necessary consecutive in a calendar year in Thailand, and you become tax resident, regardless of type of visa or bank account or no bank account.

What are the consequences of tax residency is a far more complicated story, depending on your personal situation, nationality, DTA and more, so if you plan to stay longer than 180 days on a DTV just find an expert for advice.

I miss that you showed a letter that you are allowed to do remote work from Thailand, but when they rejected you because of income that should not be the reason.

@Waqar *******

then you are just lucky, but for dependants the rule is also 500K, some embassies are less strict here sometimes.

Alternative for downloading is filing TM47 online, and when it got rejected because it is the first one of stay, just print the online filled form and take that to the immigration office.