If you stay more than 180 days in any calendar year in Thailand, you are considered a Thai tax resident, and since the beginning of 2024, any money you remit, or bring into the country, is assessable for income tax.
But what counts as a remittance – does it include ATM withdrawals and credit card purchases?
Are certain income types, such as government pensions, exempt?
If you have money saved overseas before 2024, can you transfer it tax-free now?
Are remittances from joint accounts or family transfers taxable?
How do Double Tax Agreements work for expats living in Thailand?
Can Thai authorities see your overseas bank accounts or investments?
And do digital nomads on the Destination Thailand visa need to file Thai tax returns?
To answer those questions and more, Dave Kendall is joined by Carl Turner, Co-founder of Expat Tax Thailand (https://www.expattaxthailand.com/), and Sarawoot Intapanom, the firm's Strategic Government Advisor.
24 Aug 2025
Roots of the Thai-Cambodian border conflict
The long-simmering conflict between Thailand and Cambodia over the demarcation of their 817km border has exploded in 2025, with batteries of air strikes and heavy artillery that have killed more than 40 people and displaced hundreds of thousands.
But what are the root causes of the conflict? In this epic edition of Bangkok Post’s “Deeper Dive” podcast, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Professor of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, explains that the resentments date back a thousand years, the disputed border is a coloniallegacy and the hostilities are intertwined with both Thai and Cambodian domestic politics.
26 Jun 2025
Legalising casinos in Thailand
Bo Bernhard, Vice President at UNLV, discusses Thailand's potential legalization of casinos within entertainment complexes, exploring the economic benefits and social concerns in an interview with Dave Kendall.
15 Apr 2025
US aid cuts: how Thailand is affected
US President Donald Trump has cut off mostof America’s foreign aid programmes, directly affecting Thailand and its neighbours. The affected projects range from hospitals and refugee support to earthquake relief and clean energy, and people have already died as a result.Which projects have been shut down, how is the humanitarian community coping and what hope is there for the future?
Dave Kendall speaks to Phil Robertson, the former deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch and the current Director of Asia Human Rights and Labor Advocates Consultancy.
23 Feb 2025
Vaping: Safer than cigarettes?
Over the past 20 years, fewer than one hundred people have died from vaping, while more than one hundred million people have died from smoking regular cigarettes. InThailand, the tobacco death toll is 71,000 people each year, and from vaping – zero. So why are cigarettes available in every convenience store, while e-cigarettes are banned?
In this Deeper Dive Thailand, Dave Kendall is joined by Asa Saligupta, president of Ends Cigarette Smoking Thailand, to help answer the following questions:
What are the health risks from vaping versus combustible cigarettes?
Since e-cigarettes have only been around since 2004, how likely is it that they’ll cause disease as vapers get older?
How effective is vaping to get people either toquit or avoid smoking for good?
How likely is that people will get addicted to nicotine from vapes and then transition to cigarettes?
Should tobacco-flavoured e-liquid be treated differently from candy flavours specifically marketed to children?
If e-cigarettes are much safer than tobacco cigarettes, andmany smokers would have switched to vaping if it was legal, what is the likely death toll from Thailand’s ban?
And finally: Among the hundreds of millions of foreign tourists since 2015, how many vapers may have switched back to cigarettes during their stay here and will eventually die as a result?
27 Nov 2024
Behind Thailand's floods
Pai Pianporn Deetes, campaign director for International Rivers, dissects Thailand's devastating floods, revealing the root causes of deforestation, dam releases, and river encroachment.
19 Sept 2024
Tourism in Thailand: The Big Picture
Travel historian Imtiaz Muqbil addresses tourism
in Thailand from economic, historical and social viewpoints. He says tourism is so key to Thailand’s post-Covid recovery that the government’s recent relaxation of
immigration restrictions was necessary for both the
economy and social stability. He worries that countries will compete with each other for tourist revenue in a race to the bottom that risks overtourism in certain areas. But he says the industry itself can solve these problems by
using better marketing and promotion strategies. He says that the loosening of borders brings an inevitable rise in criminal activity that can only be mitigated, not prevented. And finally, he says that since the end of the second world war, travel and tourism has had a higher purpose – to promote cultural understanding and
peace in the world.
25 Jul 2024
Thailand's new visas
Thanks to the new visa regulations issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it’s never been easier to visit Thailand and stay in the country long-term. But the devil is in the details, and to help us take an in-depth look, Dave Kendall is joined by Naruchai Ninnad, Deputy DIrector-General of the Department of Consular Affairs at Thailand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
19 Mar 2024
Thailand's burning issue
Once again, northern Thailand is choking
under a blanket of toxic smog. What’s really causing it – and how can we get rid of it for good?
Many experts believe cutting down forests to plant corn for animal feed is a major cause of the air pollution, with Chiang Mai ranked the world's worst for several days in mid-March.
Animal agriculture is the elephant in the room when it comes to climate change, as portrayed in the documentary narrated by Kate Winslet, "Eating Our Way to Extinction (https://youtu.be/_Ls2KEyb19E)".
Check out these articles in the Bangkok Post:
Feeding the beast: Chiang Mai smoke seen as world's climate change problem (https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/special-reports/2103535/feeding-the-beast-chiang-mai-smoke-seen-as-worlds-climate-change-problem)
Slaughtering the planet - on a farm (https://www.bangkokpost.com/thailand/general/1988879/slaughtering-the-planet-on-a-farm)
30 Jan 2024
Pot playtime over?
The new cannabis bill grinding its way
through parliament toughens penalties and includes jail terms for growing,
selling and importing without a licence, and for marketing and advertising of
the traditional drug that was delisted as a narcotic in June 2022. But its most
controversial provision is the imposition of fines for recreational smoking,
even in one’s own home. This has drawn condemnation from many, including long-time
cannabis legalisation advocate and entrepreneur Chokwan Kitty Chopaka.
22 Nov 2023
Smuggling the next pandemic
About 100 species of plants and animals go
extinct every day, and 1 million are on the brink. One of the causes - smuggling of endangered wildlife – could also
wipe out humans by sparking the next pandemic.
Freeland CEO Steve Galster paints a
horrifying picture on the Bangkok Post podcast, Deeper Dive.
Please share the episode and tell us what you think.
8 Oct 2023
Thailand's wildlife traffic stoppers
Thailand is a hub for the smuggling of
protected wildlife, the fourth most lucrative global crime after drugs, humans
and arms. Meet the enforcement officers trying to stop the trafficking of
pangolins, macaque monkeys, leopard cubs, exotic birds and reptiles to dinner
tables, experimentation laboratories and Chinese traditional medicine makers.
6 Aug 2023
Bitcoin booms and crypto conundrums
There are signs of a thaw in the long cryptocurrency winter, but the digital asset world has been rocked by bankruptcies and scandals.
‘Topp’ Jirayut Srupsrisopa, founder of Thailand’s leading exchange Bitkub, explains the fallout, outlines the possibilities and offers some tips to stay safe in cryptoland.
Read the accompanying article (https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/investment/2632833/bitcoin-booms-and-crypto-conundrums)in the Bangkok Post at https://bit.ly/3qEpQQs
9 May 2023
Corruption crusader Chuvit
Although corruption has long blighted Thailand, the number of alleged police graft cases in the past few months have made headline news in Thailand and overseas. Soapy massage king turned anti-corruption crusader Chuvit Kamolvisit sheds light on the latest cases and suggests some long-term solutions.
11 Apr 2023
Scamdemic
Cyberscamming has become a trillion-dollar industry, with the numbers of both scammers and victims soaring over the past three years.
Many young Thais have been enticed by online job advertisements promising well-paid work in Cambodia and Myanmar. but once they cross the border into these "special economic zones" (SEZs), many wind up in the hands of Chinese gangs who confiscate their passports. They’ve been scammed, and now – on pain of death or torture - they’re scammers themselves.
On this edition of Deeper Dive, host Dave Kendall explores the scams, explains how to avoid them and speaks to Nikkei Asia’s Dominic Faulder, author of the award-winning article “Asia’s Scamdemic: how Covid-19 supercharged online crime”.
Read "Fighting Thailand's scamdemic" (https://bit.ly/3BNepIj) in the Bangkok Post.
28 Nov 2022
Deeper Dive – trailer
A quick introduction to Bangkok Post's new podcast, Deeper Dive Thailand, where Dave Kendall takes you beneath the surface of Thailand's big issues with insight, analysis and interviews with key players. Please follow (subscribe) and rate the show.
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