@Jeff ******

Yes, conditionally yours, if you wish to hold an O Thai retirement visa. The corrupt way is if you can find a corrupt agent, that is a dicey way of getting a retirement visa. It may come back to bite you Good luck.

Well, it still costs you Bt 800,000 plus the Visa fee of Bt1900 unless, of course, you go the corrupt way by a corrupt visa agent, that is still possible I think. You could be deported from Thailand though. Even if you get an AO retirement visa in your home country and I have done that, you have to prove you have the equivalent of Bt800.000 in a bank in your home country or a pension near that amount plus medical and police report which takes about 12 months to prove at so much a month over 12 months. The Thai Embassy in Canberra did accept the surrender value of my bank-managed super retirement fund as acceptable for the required amount provided it's on an original bank bank statement, not a copy, it must be an original statement. The lady at the Thai Embassy insisted that was enough she said, "This is the simplest way for us". There were no conditions on the visa of what I had to do with the money once I arrived in Thailand. My retirement visa was multi-entry entry with a one-year extension which really makes it good for 2 years with that extension period. The extension part is not multi-entry. You leave it's over and you start again. It's a good way to give you 2 years to put all your ducks in a row to get an O retirement visa in Thailand.

Yes, but it costs you Bt 800,000 it's called a retirement visa if you are over 50 Years Old it is simple to get. There are about 100,000 posts on the internet explaining all about this...good luck.

For those who want to stay in Thailand for up to 5 years, there is now a way. But just remember using this system will likely make you to be requited to pay Thai, tax.

@Ch**

... I'm sure there are many ways to qualify for this visa if you have the Bt500,000 and Bt10,000 application fee. I can think of a few, i.e. just be a digital nomad in your home country, that is where you are invited to put things in motion. You don't have to be an expert??

Mary Clerk...you don't say if you are over 50 y/o or under. If over 50 you can apply for a multi-entry OA retirement visa in Australia or your home country or for a multi-entry visa in Thailand or as a single entry In both cases you will have to prove you have Bt800,000 either in Australia for the OA or in Thailand for the O visa multi-entry.

If under 50 y/o it seems you may be able to arrive visa exempt 2 times a year (maybe more who knows TIT) and leave each time after 3 months. I think this is clear now Hmmm maybe. TIT. With the taxation issue still unclear this may be a good option. For unclear tax reasons make your total stay 179 days p/y. The visa exemption is what I have already used for the 1 month with the one-month extension, it is quite simple and Thai immigration at Blupoint (no "e") Shopping Mall Hua Hin is very polite and helpful.

If you get a multi-entry retirement visa from either source for one year you can come and go as often as you like, But not on an extension if you get one....good luck, sweet travel. If you leave Thailand on an extension that's it the visa is concluded.

These posts and many of the replies all seem to have a dozen different opinions, mostly all different!! all claiming to be absolutely right??????.....TIT.

Yes Jeff, I believe it is much the same for TPIs or part TPIs in Australia, it's not really a pension but compensation usually for military wounds or injuries, this is not taxed. My Father applied for a TPI after his service at Gallipoli in WW1 where he was an ambulance officer (medic) he always suffered from bronchial problems as a result of his service in the 8th Light Horse Regiment and later at Damascus treating Turkish emancipated prisoners of war after they surrendered (he did not have to be ordered he often said). He served in WW2, he was then in WW2 and claimed to be the only male nursing sister in the Australian Army, all the rest were ladies he would say and laugh, and he encouraged the patients to call him Sister Tom (he liked that). Many of the patients were US soldiers as well as Australians. Having a ward full of recovering young wounded soldiers and entertaining them was a very important part of recovery and a bit bull-sh-t was part of the fixing-up process. Later he went on to serve at a hospital near Paris in WW1. There are many other stories I could tell about Sergent Sister Tom Walden AMF. A country boy from Australia who was an expert at treating both wounded horses and men on the battlefield. He did get his full TPI at 65 y/o. He was married at 41 y/o Sister Tom (Dad) had 8 kids in 13 years. As small children, we lived near the army hospital where he worked and we were part of the treatment of wounded soldiers, they spoilt us.

All these comments suggest that nobody really knows the answer to the OP's original question.. As I said only time will tell.

Which tax office.

@Tim ********