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Assuming that you're working remotely for clients who are outside of Thailand, is this actually a problem? I've worked from various places while traveling, and

• peteretep 12y ago
  It is _absolutely_ a problem if you're working remotely for clients who are outside Thailand. Will you get caught? Probably not. Will you get caught if you keep showing up at co-working spaces now the government is cracking down on visas? Are you feeling lucky?
  • johnking 12y ago
    Yes Thailand is, supposedly, cracking down on visa runs from August 12th. Although there have been threats like this before, and its soon dissipated. So we will have to wait and see. This however has nothing to do with whether or not you show up at co-working spaces! We're not dealing with the secret service here, they're not tracking your every movement.
  • mediascreen 12y ago
    Unless you get out of your way to irritate someone with immigration connections, I would say the risk is pretty close to zero. It's much easier to crack down on people doing perpetual visa runs or companies hiring large numbers of Cambodians than it would be to monitor what exactly foreigners are doing in co-working spaces.
  • jtheory 12y ago
    Is there a time constraint? E.g., before I had kids I spent a few months traveling from Western Europe down to Turkey, working along the way -- probably in about 10 different countries; countries don't reasonable expect you to file taxes if you happen to do some remote work in them for a week, do they? Obviously this will vary per-country, but I'm curious if you know how it would play out in Thailand, at least, if you did everything by the book.
    • peteretep 12y ago
      Tax and work permit are different. In Thailand you need to be there more than half the year before you need to declare income.