I'll also add that there isn't any clarification coming from the authorities about this. It all comes from third party websites, and as I said there doesn't seem to be a clear consensus. Not saying you're wrong, you probably are, but it's no wonder people would get confused when even the experts don't necessarily agree on this.

Thanks. It seems it's split on experts who say it counts as "remittance" and those who say it doesn't. I even saw a guy that said he asked at a tax office in Bangkok and they told him it doesn't count. Anyway as you said it's hard to enforce because there's no way for the authorities to verify what is and isn't foreign revenue. And you would most likely be covered by an agreement between Thailand and your home country anyway.

@Sefton *******

could you provide some official source for this? I wasn't able to find anything

no. Only revenue that is remitted to a thai bank account is subject to tax if you stayed at least 180 days in a calendar year.

Yeah but that's a very specific case. Anyway to me the tradeoff is worth it: you just have to avoid remitting money into thailand and so you don't have to pay tax.

If you don't remit revenue from outside to a Thai bank account, you don't have to pay any tax. DTV doesn't even really allow you to open a Thai bank account so you're good.

- You can legally work remotely without having to pay taxes in the country

- You can stay six month or one year with an extension. It's better to stay 6 months than 2 months and having to apply for an extension to get 30 more days

- You can come and go as you please, there's no special rule or restriction (tourists have to book an outbound flight). That means you can base yourself in Thailand and travel as much as you want in and out without any impact on your visa status. You can't really do that as a tourist.

All in all it brings you peace of mind. You don't need to worry about visa run and whether you'll be denied entry.

@Jordan *******

they never checked on it before while people are getting rejected now. There is a big crackdown on that kind of abuse right now, follow the news

@Rob ******

they're already demanding that tourists book an outbound flight if they want to enter the country. I know that some tourists were denied entry for this reason.

I'm running into the same issue. They're asking for a ton of supporting documents and the file size is above the maximum 3MB when I merge it all into a PDF