@Andy ***********

🤣🤣🤣

@Andy ***********

That’s great, but still irrelevant because you can’t put money in a bank account when you don’t have one. The whole 65k per month discussion is completely irrelevant.

@Andy ***********

Sure, but he doesn’t, so it’s irrelevant.

@Declan *********

Yep. I too often see that in the tax group as well. When someone asks a question about paying tax in Thailand lots of people jump in with irrelevant answers based on their own situation. It causes much energy to correct that and disclose the assumptions which people made.

I’m not sure what your traveling plans will be but chances are you’ll lose your retirement visa too soon. Not due to money, but due to not being in the country at renewal time.

Anyway, the income method won’t work for you as it must come into your Thai bank, which (I assume) you don’t have. The US embassy won’t give you a statement of your income.

Why don’t you just come on other visa like DTV or something?

@Declan *********

He keeps answering always from his own perspective and always forgets that different people have different situations.

His answer “yes” is correct, provided you are in the same circumstances as he is (which he omitted to add).

Just be prepared for such questions if you are using another bank. No reason to panic.

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@Andy ***********

Expat retirees are taxed in Thailand unless their income is excluded by a dta! Get that into your thick skull!

@John *******

I am 100% sure my Thai tax liability for 2024 is zero. If you want we can place a good bet.

@Andy ***********

… and then you start to defend your mistake by limiting your generic statement to a single category (which you didn’t in your statement so Pete is totally right when telling you wrong) and you make the next mistake after mistake, merely because you limit your view to a single type of person who probably fits into your limited view of the world… Let me just address the last erroneous statement and then I give up.

“If you have full tax residency in Thailand and nowhere else, of course you must pay tax, that’s the same everywhere in the world.”

First of all you don’t have a clue about “everywhere else in the world” so you’re entitlement to make such a statement is zero and non existent.

Secondly, if you are Thai tax resident and nowhere else, you must only pay tax if you have taxable income. Again an omitted limitation. Your generic statement ignores a large group of people who have close to zero taxable income and who thus may have to pay zero tax.

My advice to you;

1) Please refrain from making statements about taxes when you’re not capable of acknowledging that there are many many different people with equally many different backgrounds which puts them in many many different tax categories.

2) For your personal sake, find help about tax laws. Consult someone who can tell you beyond doubt to which extent you might be taxable or not. Acknowledge your limitations and don’t feel ashamed of not knowing every detail if the laws of a country with an unfamiliar language and an unfamiliar alphabet.