@Graham *****

Yeah, but that was not the point. People here are nitpicking about visa and 4 workers and other nonsense. I can have as many companies in Thailand as I want, without any workers or any visa. Or how do you think the biggest Harley Davidson factory on the planet is in Thailand? Because all share holders have a Thai Visa? I do not think so.

@Andreas ********

That is half correct. Since COVID you can apply inside of the country. And you can do normal restaurant work since 10 years ... the times where the owner of the restaurant can not open a beer and give it to a guest is over since ages.

@Greg *******

Happens to the best to us :D

@Andy *********

That is exactly what I would do, chase them for not paying their taxes. Roads, Sky Trains, Hospitals, Schools are not paid by "magical beings" but by the taxes people pay on their income. If you want to live in Thailand and ride nearly cost free buses and nearly cost free Sky Trains, but do not like to share the money to the community, you live in: Up to You - as the Thai say.

But the Indians say: Karma is a bitch.

@Greg *******

180 days, not 280 days.

@Roberto ******

you have to check in every 90 days. And you do not have to leave the Kingdome if you do a visa extension for 1900THB after 180 days.

Entry stamp does cut it. Just walk from branch to branch.

@Asim *******

Sorry. I have company. You have not.

STEP 1:

found the company, requirement: one or two Thai partners.

STEP 2: optional no need to do that, unless you want to do it

Get a Non B (non immigrant visa based on business). Requirement: some company that hires you. And have a work contract. Oh, see: if you want to work for your own company, you have to have done STEP 1 already. So that the managing director of said company: can make a work contract with you. No work contract -> no Business visa.

STEP 3:

Work permit. If you want to work and not only be shareholder and managing director, you need a work permit. Depending on what kind of company you own, NOW you need workers.

See? STEP 1? No workers needed to make a company. You need "perhaps" workers for STEP 3. And if you do not make STEP 1 - without workers, you do not reach STEP 3,

AND NOW I TELL IT TO YOU AGAIN: stop posting legal advice about stuff you have no clue about. It is illegal anyway: because you are not a lawyer. If you want to make a company: then ask a lawyer how to do it.

I have no idea why people who have no company, think they know more about it as one who actually has a company.

PS. STEP 3 depends on the kind of company and your "social status". If you are married, the company hiring you, needs only TWO workers, not FOUR. So you hire your wife ... and hence you only need ONE additional worker.

Or you make a company under BOI regulations: *NO* Thai partner needed, *NO* workers needed.

And that was a free advice to a random guy on the internet, whom I do not even know.

Good luck with your half knowledge. If you want to found a company, get a lawyer, and just do it. Prices are around 25,000THB or less or more, up to you.

@Michael *******

And I wrote: it is not directed at you. Perhaps I should have written: "So, does not really make any sense to think with some half knowledge scratched from outdated internet pages and other facebook posts, ONE would get very far. "

A 30 days extension for 1900THB. What you mean with visa? You do not need a visa for 60 days, you can come visa exempt for 60 days now.

The problem is that your return light is not in the visa range. So the airline might reject you from boarding. Technique Thai border control aka immigration can reject you, too. But if you show the flight and they ask again, you can tell them you like to extend. Normally there is no complaint.