@Jake ******

u are definitely wrong

@Colin ******

well if you’re paying the very low rate of 10k but then after 180 days funds brought into the country are taxed then it’s not that cheap anymore

@Bart *************

I’m not trying to be argumentative, im genuinely interested in other peoples take in this…it seems notable to me that a new very low price visa wich can be used to stay in the kingdom longer than 180 days was rolled out at the same general time that a tax policy for foreigners who stay longer than 180 days was implemented…do you think that’s a coincidence?

@Bart *************

but they coincide

Yeah…it’s like a bonus in terms of time but in application it’s much more expensive than the 10k up front charge it seems

@Brandon ***********

do you think it’s coincidental that the new tax plan is being rolled out just after the DTV?

@Michael ******

for sure

@Niall *******

that’s what happened last time and the government figured out that without a significant expenditure on behalf of the emigre, the quality of “tourist” does not produce revenue but does cause optics issues…all that said, humans tend to be amnesiac so maybe they forgot the lesson they learned

This is how it used to be prior to 2010 or so…you could do border runs in perpetuity and just live here forever…that scenario did not produce dividends for Thailand so it was changed…it seems very unlikely that the Thai government is going to allow folks to emigrate here forever without a more significant fee than 10k and 500k in a bank

@Russell **********

the plan the government announced is for that to change