A foreign national who dies in Thailand owning a condo, a bank account, or a car, with only a will from their home country and no Thai will, doesn’t leave their heirs a simple inheritance. They leave them two separate…
BOI promotion gets mentioned across almost every guide to doing business in Thailand as foreign investors’ best route around the country’s ownership and staffing restrictions — and that reputation is largely earned. What gets left out of most mentions is…
The 800,000 THB bank deposit that qualifies you for a retirement visa and the amount you actually need to live comfortably in Thailand are two entirely different numbers, and conflating them is how retirement budgets go wrong. The visa threshold…
Getting legally married in Thailand and being legally entitled to live there as a foreign spouse are two completely separate processes, governed by different offices, different documents, and different rules. Couples who’ve just been through the (comparatively simple) marriage registration…
Owning a condo in Thailand and renting it out sounds like a passive income story. For a meaningful number of foreign owners, it turns into an active compliance obligation instead — tax withholding rules, lease registration thresholds, and a platform-rental…
A Thai prenuptial agreement signed the week after the wedding isn’t a prenuptial agreement — it’s a nullity. Thai law is unusually strict about timing and formality here, more so than many foreign spouses expect coming from jurisdictions where a…
Thailand’s overstay fine is capped at 20,000 THB, which sounds almost reasonable until you understand what actually escalates alongside it. The cash penalty is the smallest part of what an overstay costs — the real consequence is the entry ban…
The Non-Immigrant B visa gets you into Thailand legally to work or do business. It does not, by itself, let you actually start working. That distinction — a visa that grants entry versus a work permit that grants authorization —…
Thailand runs on a first-to-file trademark system, not first-to-use. That single fact surprises more foreign business owners than any other part of the process — having used a mark for years elsewhere, or even having built genuine brand recognition inside…
A work permit in Thailand isn’t tied to a visa the way many foreigners assume — it’s a separate authorization tied to a specific employer, a specific role, and specific work location. Change any of those three and, technically, the…