• UK Citizen
  • Statutory Residence Test (SRT) passed so that my Tax residency maintains to be in the UK. (Spend 16+ days in the UK in a given tax year where I was a UK tax resident the previous year) (Pass the Third automatic UK test by working during the 16 days in the UK)
  • Continue to pay tax in UK, tax code remains unchanged to employer and use UK bank account to send money to Thailand to withdraw cash.
  • Work from my apartment on a 60 day tourist visa + 30 day extension --> Fly back to UK to meet SRT criteria --> repeat 6 month tourist visa again.
  • Able to rent apartment on tourist visa.
  • Eventually apply for the LTR thai visa (which I meet the requirements for) once working / living like this is proven to work well.

Realistically, how feasible is this plan? Are immigration officers going to turn me away on my second 6 month tourist visa? Will I get people knocking at my door to pay tax in Thailand after the 183 day point?

How is everyone else managing this? or is everyone just hopping to a new country every 2 months?

Any other advice welcome, this is my final choice before I quit my tech job and go down the TEFL route…

  • Ok-Media-1597OPBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    >Freelancing in IT is going to bring in more money.

    Finding contract roles in the UK that permit you working from another country are non-existent… I and a few of my colleagues have been searching around for this for years. It’s too much of a logistical headache for business / payroll so they just won’t take you on. But yeah just doing it under the radar like I’m planning on doing now would still work.

    Thanks for your reply man, I think the plan is tourist visa one more time --> education visa, not telling HMRC, keeping my head down and after 14 months I should have an idea of where, what I should do from there.