@John ******

sorry, what are you attempting to share?

@Suki *****

read all comments, saw no evidence of anyone being double taxed in this thread, maybe I missed it? 🤷‍♂️

CPAs and tax attorneys are not the same people.

I understand looking for advice.

But please keep in perspective you’re walking around a dark room looking for a light switch.

Until absolutes are defined AND enforceable my advice would be keep as much of your money in your home country as possible.

Thailand talks a lot before anything really happens has been my experience.

@Suki *****

not being an expert three things come to mind.

The criteria is not clear!

They do a lousy job enforcing their tax law on their own people let alone visitors.

Finally, if you have genuine concern, hire a professional tax advisor. This is not an appropriate method or vetted means of making important life decisions.

Going out on a limb with nothing to stand on, seeing the language “permanent residence” strongly suggests the vast majority of people here are NOT “permanent residence”, they are technically visitors on a VISA. Just sayin. 🤷‍♂️

Fwiw, I used LMG and it fulfilled the requirement but literally did nothing other than take my money. Wouldn’t respond to emails/questions…etc. 🙄

I think the answer will be very subjective. What expenses I didn’t see coming were cost of food because virtually everything I eat is imported, my PEA bill this month was 5k baht. But housing, scooter, water and simple existing is cheap!

I don’t drink or party which I think eats seriously into budgets of many men.

I however have not established a remote work situ yet. Finding it more difficult than expected as an excessively seasoned IT professional, and in fairness some of that can just be me.

I have AIS Fiber 1 gigabit. The router is garbage but overall the service has been decent. I pay post a promo period ~600 a month, promo period ~450 a month.

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

there’s just no excuse. Really.

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

that from an infrastructure administrative point of view is pathetic.

They can replace the cert in minutes, certificate authorities send expiration notices well in advance. Gawd! Sorry for the rant. 🤮

@Chris *******

Yes, certainly this is one way! But the end run to all the above can be ignored by using routing traces. Most often using flat tables of preidentified device origins. Though VPNs can impersonate a regions IP address it cannot mask the routing coming from outside of a designated area.

I used to restrict access to infrastructure, sites and services to only the US 48 contagious states for an entire organization, VPN or not. Tools used would not only allow for restriction based on IP and subnets, they would identify the geographic origin of the request. Frankly pretty slick stuff!