Your friend is wrong there is no limit for the number of TR (tourist visa) that you can get. It's the visa exemption (30 days on arrival + 30 days extension) that you can only get 2x per year. As Jspill said if you fly in with a TR be ready to show them 20k at Immigration and 10K min with a visa exemption

Best option obv

I miss Acer.

Legend.

Could be a scene in the upcoming Oceans 14....
Seems fool proof.

hmm interesting
So that means every 3 months go to laos and come back?

20k baht right? and we are supposed to go to school or they are fine that u dont show up lol?
The hooker would result into 50% rake LOL
stars names booth, il ship u booth 5

Just to warn you netteler to thai bank seems to take forever. I just tried it the first time by sending like $20 and it says it take like 5-10 business days. Still don't know if it'll work tho, since the bank doesn't have an IBAN.

You can't get unlimited TVs from the same Thai Embassy, easily up to 4 TVs from Vientiane then you can get a few from Penang, same from Saigon, Yangon, etc. In the long term, the thai elite card is probably the best option, expensive but guarantee hassle-free. For the 20k it's thai baht, of course.

Thanks for the 5$ but better to donate it to a hooker of your choice

Probably not for everyone but if you have an existing business in IT or online marketing and want to pay taxes in Thailand this is an option https://iglu.net/join/
Minimum $2500/month @ 30% 'tax rate' (actually their fee) and you can stay here legally and come and go as you please.

OK so if your billing over $2,500 pm that's just over 1MBaht a year, so your tax rate is 20%, they cream 10% to cover office rent/bills work permit etc...and ofc profit

Cheaper than doing it yourself, even tho a sole freelancer would have a hard time setting up anyway.

But still cheaper to stay as you are unless you really wanna wp and have somewhere to work.

(Im assuming they cover cost of B visa and WP, if not the deal looks even worse)

If you consider the whole 30% that works out to $9,000 per year - that's way over the visa elite card price.

You have to work at their office, can't work at home. And need an existing company. Always seemed like a semi scam to me to get people who are paranoid about working online to hand over 30% of their income.

I am not saying it is the cheapest option and suitable for everyone but if you want to establish a tax residency and pay taxes somewhere to avoid the the claws from the Euro taxman it can be a good option. You probably need a decent sized business/monthly billable for it to be worth it.
With the new CRS banking reporting being implemented this year in Europe and next year worldwide the days are over when you can try to fly under the radar and avoid paying any taxes at all if you make more than rent money. Sooner or later your local taxman will find you and it will be a bad day. This setup allows you to become legal tax resident in Thailand and gives you legal access to live & work there and come and go as you please in the country. For some people that could be worth $6-700 per month.
You don't have to work in their office. You don't need a company of your own but you do need a client that you earn consistent revenue from. They cover all visa & permit costs. They just raised it from $2000 to $2500. You need degree/work experience in IT or marketing. It takes a month from start to finish to setup.
Scam? Not sure what your definition of scam is. It might not be worth it for everyone but to imply that they are shady and deceiving is wrong. It is a pretty decent sized setup with many happy employees as far as I can tell.
Realize it might not be interesting for most people here but since the discussion was around various forms of visa setups for Thailand I thought I might as well throw it out there as an option.

http://www.muangthai.co.th:1766/fna/...tax-calculator

According to this thing for 1M TBH of personal income, you would pay 97.000 in taxes (tell me if I am wrong)

So they would take over 200k in fees. I actually qualifiy for this thing, and will definitly at least think about it. Thanks for posting !

Not a scam but quite irrelevent imo - at least if your from the uk.

All you need to do is confirm your out the country over X amount days per year and you dont get taxed on overseas earnings. Submit online tax return each year and declare as little or as much income as you want.

In fact you dont even need to declare Thai income as the uk has some tax treaty or something.

I've done this for years when working in Thailand on a WP. And because i was out of the country for years at a time my rental income from my uk properties was all tax free too.

Anyway, yeah might be good for some folks peace of mind but I would never use them.

Need baht, can send stars or neteller. Anyone reputable in Bangkok or Pattaya? Need it in the next few days or so please. Thanks

If you havnt set foot in Euroland for a long time you are out of the claws of the Euro taxman. But if you just emigrated (or within the last 3-4 years) for most countries there is a lot more to it than just spend <180 days in the country. If you think just doing that exempts you from tax liability back home even if you dont live there anymore you will be mistaken in most Euro countries. Every country has their own set of rules.

Soon with the CRS banking reporting your local taxman will see all your bank balances in almost all countries in the world. It will be hard to hide any serious income and assets. If they find an account where you have $200-300k you can bet your ass they are going to start asking questions. And it will be your responsibility to prove they are legit or they will give you a nice tax bill to pay.

For Americans completely different set of rules apply for taxes since it is based on citizenship and not residency but the american guy I talked to said I am going to pay taxes somewhere and I might as well pay some here and get a PR for the effort and then I get tax credits back in the states and it will pay for itself. Something along those lines...

If you don't give a **** about taxes this is not a good solution. If you do want to do some tax planning this could be an option to consider for some people.
And yeah you probably need to run your own business and be making a bit more than rent money for it to be worth while.

So when it says on my contract that "landlord is to pay for all major repairs required in the premises, such major repairs being those repairs exceeding 2000 baht, unless arising from the negligence...etc.

We fix the aircons, bill is 2.7k baht. He's saying i pay 2k and he pays 700.

Ive paid numerous under 2k bills myself but thought over 2k bills he takes care of, the whole amount. Thoughts?

Another 200k baht in fees to apply for PR and most likely get rejected with no refunds . They approve so few people a year and vast majority of the slots they give to women married to Thai men.

Don't know about EU but for the UK it pretty much is just the <180 days a year in Thailand thing as Pooter said.

Buy cryptocurrencies and give 30% of your income to hookers, imo.

And when it comes to calculating the cost of the visa setup it seems like most people value their own time at $0/h.
If you have to spend 10 days a year on various visa trips & hanging out in immigration offices or go to a language learning school when you don't really have an interest in learning a new language that is some serious lost opportunity cost when you could have been working on your business and be making money instead. Gotta have a bit more respect for the value of your own time than that.

You should not need to pay for any aircon fixing unless it was somehow your fault it got broken. Landlord pays full 2.7k imo

Thank **** for brexit is all i can say.

That's his bill to pay, they will try it on obviously. I was in Malta in my first week and the water boiler broke down, I came back form the beach with 2 inches of water in the whole apartment. The ***** had the nerve to try and charge me for it. I replied with that it's not wear and tear on my part, I never even touched the thing, but that thing was already ripe for break down.

Her son later came by and replaced it, stating that it was still under warranty.

Yeah big stuff like are major repairs, it says so in your contract. Bills over 2k is the landlord's responsibility.

I was unaware about this CRS banking, after looking at the list of countries committed to exchange in 2017/2018 I see that most southeast asian countries are not in the list, lmao SEA wp

http://www.oecd.org/tax/automatic-ex...-jurisdiction/

The Thai elite card almost seems something of myth, has anyone met someone who has yolod it? has it always been 5 years? Do you just go to the visa run boys and they can sort it?

Nothing yolo about it. Many here in bkk have it and everyone i know have been extremely happy. Can get it arranged thru Harvey law group(probably others too), dont know the details but i suppose theyve got some kind of agent deal with the elite program department. They also take care of arranging the motosai guy to pick up ur passport and bring it back. Pm me if u want an email.

I have a friend who got it 2-3 years ago and has been very happy so far