Anonieme deelnemer Indeed a lot can change, it is even very difficult to tell if the money is enough for 15 years...

@Henrik ****

Might be the best option indeed, but still need a borderrun every year when you want to live in Thailand on a tourist visa.

Anonieme deelnemer for living long time in Thailand like 15 years, you also might look at a visa to stay long time. DTV is a tourist visa, and I wonder, even in case it still exists in 5 years, you can get one again for soft power. Convincing them you need over 5 years for a soft power activity might be hard. When you get the correct visa for your stay, the borderruns are not necessary.

Anonieme deelnemer 307 For spending 2 nights out of the country it does not give any legal ground, also not when entering on visa exempt, but since it is up to IO to deide about entering the country, you cannot do anything about it when they refuse entry.

For just visiting Thailand you don't need a DTV.

Without more info about your situation and what are your travel plans it is difficult to give a good advice.

Anonieme deelnemer It is mentioned several times in this group that Wise not is a bank and therefore not always accepted.

Indeed some embassies seem to accept it sometimes, which might be their own rules or just a slight mistake, since Wise is not a bank, and therefore should not be accepted by any embassy.

@Pete ******

Do you believe the nonsense you tell yourself? I did not see any definition from you what are "savings" As long as you fail to do that, I just take your remarks for what they are worth in my opinion, zero

@Pete ******

Maybe you should just try to define what are savings in combination with remitted money.

From the view of Thailand savings would mean money you already paid tax for in Thailand.

From the view of the tax office of your home country it might be money you already paid tax for in your home country, and in some countries that means you don't have to pay tax on it anymore.

Unfortunately in Netherlands I have to pay tax also on savings...

So your statement that the fact savings are not taxed is basics, just is not true for all countries.

What exactly happens with savings when brought in from outside Thailand, depends on the DTA of your country with Thailand.

But in case there are no rules about this in the DTA, for Thailand any money brought in from outside is just taxable when it was not already in your possesision on 1-1-2024

Money you bring in to Thailand are not savings anymore on that moment, and for Thailand it were never savings.

When you received the money in your home country it was income, you paid tax for it and the part you did not spend are from that moment on savings from the view of your home country.

@David *****

As soon as you bring it in in any way it is taxable, no difference in spending immediately or keeping it in your wallet as cash or putting it on a Thai bank account.

If you want to prevent money you bring in as taxable you can choose to bring it in in a year you are not tax resident and use it later.

@Pete ******

You are just wrong, DTV holders are not something different for tax law. For money you bring which you did not already have at 1-1-2024 it does not make any difference if you put it in a savings account before you transfer this. How do you think Thailand will make any difference in money you keep outside Thailand? Savings is just money that was income before, and as long as it was income after 1-1-2024 they see it as taxable, regardless in which year you bring it in.