@Det ******

thats anywhere for anything. refuse to sign required paperwork, and nobody going to work with you. buy an airline ticket and refuse to do what they tell you, you'll be denied... this is just nuts converso. done with this, and you make no sense.

@Det ******

why and who is going to refuse a W9 piece of paperwork. What conspiricy rock you crawling out from under dude?? you laundering money or something, or think US going to send a Interpol Red Team to bust down your door in the middle of the night?

@Det ******

Thai banks don't turn a person down for that.... just rubbish.

@Det ******

Just re-read your comment, and still don't get your point, about reporting your bank activity to America.... that's just irrelevant to the topic.

@Det ******

what if anything does that have to do with opening a bank account in Thailand?? Nothing!! And of course you can't use the account for laundering so reporting is nothing special. Years ago I got a Bank account on a 30 day tourist visa,.sure the IRS knows about it, and then what?

they are not enforcing anything. Thai government has no regulations on this. it is strictly up to the bank. every bank and every bank location is different. however if you look from their point of view. not making a lot of money off a totally free account. yeah you can show up with a fist full of cash, but you and they know you could just withdraw most of it the next day. some will want to sell you some insurance policy so at least they get something out of the deal. either get an agent to help you, or spend your vacation going from bank to bank.

Basically no

Can't do return ticket and tell immigration it's because you're doing an extension

@Tim ********

always great to read someones backwalking their comments BS

you make a huge assumption that I know nothing.... What do you know exactly??? I've listended to 2 separate thai tax attorneys utubes, and i've also read the DTA agreement between US and Thailand.... have you read your DTA??? probably not. just spouting nonsense, as it's easy, because you need no facts to just post garbage. the 2 different Thai tax attorneys BOTH say exactly the same thing. if you stay 180 days " you are subject to Thai tax".... there's an ocean of difference between subject to tax, and actually being taxed... and they each go on to say that. Both says you have to read your countries DTA. There are around 86-87 different countries that each have their own DTA, and there are some differences. US and probably ALL say that pensions are EXEMPT. However there are over a dozen types of incomes covered. Most people do not own international companies, or internation airlines, or shipping/frieght companies however. So anyone from the 86-87 different DTA counties that are not very wealthy with huge amount of $$, they're not going to be taxed. Instead of just retyping gossip, please go read your DTA, watch the 2 utubes, actually listen to what they say.... just an idea. or just go ahead and keep taking nonsense. Just as an example, the US GVT states that ALL US citizens, no matter where they live, including overseas residents. "are subject to US tax" however around 35-40% pay no taxes due to being low income. Another percentage of wealthy pay little or no income tax, because the own large companies, and already pay a lot of OTHER taxes, and allowable expenses.

All the BS about taxes is way overrated, and mostly uninformed people passing around the same fake rumors.