@Greg *******

but they can prevent you from beeing scammed. Lot of criminal energy within the Immigration department. Not sure if they or the police earn more bribes.

The German one will probably dont do anything (except using my tax money for their stupid social media activivity. For those cases my second US passport is a good thing to have. They are quite helpfull.

And DONT pay "taxes" to Immigration. Many are highly corrupted.

That is a matter to discuss with your embassy, not a Facebook group. Have you called them yet?

In my oppinion the conditions will change a lot in the future for new applicants, as it is another pretty ill-thought out visa again. But this time in our favor.

Yet for people that allready habe the visa nothing should change and everybody should be happy who got it 😌

@Greg *******

that's not enough, thousends for sure

He most important question is, have you lived in Thailand for a few months before and are you sure, you want to live there longterm?

If you want to do business within Thailand you will have to go though the process for a marriage visa which "comes with" a work permit (that you will need)

@Greg *******

I agree with you, DTV holders will most likely not be caught up in the Thai tax system.

The problem in this case are German work and tax laws, as a employee working abroad permanently is establishing a so called "Betriebsstätte" (like a foreign branch of the company). That has a lot of awefull tax and social security consequences for the employer himself (not necessarily the employee). Most German employers limit remote work therefore.

Anonymer Teilnehmer Sozialversicherungssystem

Begründung des Status eines „Multi-State-Worker“

Höhere Beitragszahlungen für Arbeitnehmer und Arbeitgeber

Steuerpflicht des Mitarbeitenden

Begründung einer beschränkten oder unbeschränkten Steuerpflicht im Ausland

Besteuerungsrecht könnte dem Ausland zugewiesen werden

Mögliche unterjährige Doppelbesteuerung

Verpflichtung zur Abgabe einer Steuererklärung im Ausland.

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