Where does working online stand in the work permit department?

**Marmite the Dog** · 09-04-2013, 02:59 PM

Originally Posted by 9999

Originally Posted by carlspencer

You mean technically someone could get booted out for answering emails while on vacation?

obv. not.

But they're not gonna sit by and watch idly as you set up a mechanic garage out in the open either now are they.

That's not the issue. Answering emails involves a similar process to producing spreadsheets or other Office documents. You're basically using a computer of some sort whether hand-held or a laptop/desktop.

**Spin** · 09-04-2013, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by Noppadol Ployudee, chief of the Phuket Provincial Employment Office

Stock investment is not lawfully defined as work. As long as you are not working, you do not need to apply for a work permit.

Many times I've read the following statement on various foreign owned legal websites that define work according to Thai law as "exerting energy or using knowledge whether or not in consideration of wages or other benefits."

If the above is to be believed, the statement from the guy I quoted seems to be misleading.

**9999** · 09-04-2013, 03:49 PM

This is the trick all the boiler room stock scammers try to use. It's not working to well for them now though.

**DrAndy** · 11-04-2013, 01:59 PM

there are a bunch of yanks working online near me living in a shared house

they just have to sit at their computers for hours doing on-line editing

incredibly boring and it seems a waste of time, but maybe that is the only way they can survive

**Thormaturge** · 17-04-2013, 06:56 AM

Originally Posted by draco888

Being on vacation means he/she is not living and working and Thailand does it not?

You need a work permit even if you are a non-resident.

People who visit seminars, for example, are deemed to be working even if they are here for just 24 hours. There is a temporary work permit, which I think lasts 14 days, to cover this sort of thing.

If you sit at a computer in Thailand and work on the internet then you are conducting work here and require a permit...regardless of where the server is based.

**Phuketrichard** · 17-04-2013, 10:53 AM

not sure where this falls, but my brother in law from the states was recently here and did a 2 days film shoot documentary at the local school all fully sanctioned an approved by the Thai film board.
he was told and allowed to without a work permit and was told ( as i was) that for up to 14 days for this type activity u do not need a wp. First time i have ever heard of this

**draco888** · 17-04-2013, 11:39 AM

Attending a seminar is not a vacation.

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

Originally Posted by draco888

Being on vacation means he/she is not living and working and Thailand does it not?

You need a work permit even if you are a non-resident.

People who visit seminars, for example, are deemed to be working even if they are here for just 24 hours. There is a temporary work permit, which I think lasts 14 days, to cover this sort of thing.

If you sit at a computer in Thailand and work on the internet then you are conducting work here and require a permit...regardless of where the server is based.

**Thormaturge** · 17-04-2013, 11:48 AM

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I have no idea what a vacation has to do with work permits.

Whatever your reason for being in Thailand, even if you turn up here on a Kuoni package tour, if you perform any form of commercial activity (even unpaid) a work permit is required.

Of course, it is commonplace for people attending seminars and conferences to arrive on tourist visas because the paperwork is a ridiculous hassle.

There are all manner of odd regulations and there may just be some form of waiver for the film industry but I would need to dig deep into my notes to be sure.

**draco888** · 17-04-2013, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Thormaturge

^
I have no idea what a vacation has to do with work permits.

Whatever your reason for being in Thailand, even if you turn up here on a Kuoni package tour, if you perform any form of commercial activity (even unpaid) a work permit is required.

Of course, it is commonplace for people attending seminars and conferences to arrive on tourist visas because the paperwork is a ridiculous hassle.

There are all manner of odd regulations and there may just be some form of waiver for the film industry but I would need to dig deep into my notes to be sure.

My point is if you came to Thailand for a vacation and happened to take an incoming call that was work related are you saying a work permit is required?

**Thormaturge** · 17-04-2013, 12:12 PM

^Strictly, yes.

Otherwise we would all be on holiday.

In actuality there are large numbers working here for years without work permits and there isn't a hope of enforcing what are, in effect, draconian rules.

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