@David *****

Bills being padded is a country wide problem, they don't give a shit if you're foreign, thai or an alien. If they think you're stupid or drunk, theres a good chance your bill will be padded. Always ALWAYS check your bar bill. In BKK Koreans get absolutely rinsed so don't take it personally

@Detlef **********

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@SJ ******

I need to find a shitting dog emoji! 😆

@Ruth ******

It may also add some mud. I was told funds wise I was well over the line but it was in the wrong places (equities/pensions/cash) - cash is useless for the LTR visa, and if I applied it would be turned down. The fact I don't need to work and thus have no tax return fried their minds and said it would fail on that alone. When I pointed out surely someone who has enough they don't need to work, must be in a better position than someone who needs to, I just got blank stares. Also they couldn't get their head around (as a brit) that I don't do a tax return each year as the vast majority of retired people don't need to.

@Marty ********

$100k alone in a bank account won't get you an LTR visa unless they've changed the rules

You can own the house without any 'company' involvement - I think your land/house wires are getting crossed tbh. I've always owned my houses alone (yellow book), with the land owned by the wife, with a land office issued usufruct as a guarantee to use that land. There is some debate as to whether that gets cancelled in a divorce but the natural thing then would be to sell up anyway.

@Jim *******

lol 'send them on their way' - I think you might be new here. But you don't seem to be grasping, they don't have to come to you, at least once a year you have to go to them. The annual extensions mean we're a captive audience for compliance purposes. It would be the simplest thing in the world to tie tax to extensions. It doesn't take Stephen Hawkins to see how. You go to immigration and they ask for a statement from your bank showing all monies sent from abroad and an accompanying tax receipt. Similarly to the credit advice, just another piece of paper from the bank to say Joe Bloggs shipped it 'x' baht in the last 12 months. Tick that box, extension granted, fail to tick it off you either go and get it or no extension. I haven't been sucked into anything, IF this comes to fruition I'm already aware of roughly how much it would mean to me, and it's not enough to keep me awake, but for those, like yourself who think you're going to spend more than 180 days here and be immune to the tax spotlight at some point, I still maintain at extension time, are dreaming. We shall see.

@Tim ********

Clearly, or so I thought, I was being hypothetical! 🙈

@Jim *******

What is going to be fascinating is the culmination of 200+ DTA's converging on Thailand at once and the general public expecting Thailand to have them nailed. I doubt a single days seminar has been set up to help them. Also I don't know when the Australian tax year end is but in the UK it is April, when you would receive proof you have paid tax on your income. However that date in Thailand is December, meaning for January, February and March you won't be able to prove any tax paid in your home country to the thai tax office. If as I suspect, tax dues will be tied to visa extensions, I just can't see any other way of enforcement, then that is going to be a car crash, possibly with the thais, snowed under by expats coming at them from all angles clutching different DTA's, demanding you cough up in order to obtain your extension and then when proof arrives claim it back! I think it's bordering on extreme optimism for anyone thinking their countries DTA is going to get you through the fog. Picture the scene, someone rolls up a Madagascan native and the thais are supposed to know the details of the Thailand/Madagascan DTA? No chance. The sheer complexity of this may make them just shelve it, who knows.

@Jim *******

It's more to do with the OP's post before it got taken off course