madmitch

10 minutes ago, FarAway said:

Still a lot of countries to go if you wanna live tax-free:

 

Antigua and Barbuda	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[3][4]
Bahamas	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Bahrain	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Brunei	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Cayman Islands	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Kuwait	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Monaco	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[6]
Oman	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Pitcairn Islands	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[7]
Qatar	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Saint Barthélemy	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[8][Note 1]
Saint Kitts and Nevis	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[11]
Turks and Caicos Islands	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[12]
United Arab Emirates	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[5]
Vanuatu	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[13]
Vatican City	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[14]
Wallis and Futuna	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[15]
Western Sahara	No	No	No	No personal income tax.[16]
North Korea	No*	No**	No	No tax on income of resident citizens,[17] residence-based taxation of foreigners, territorial taxation of nonresident citizens.[18] * Except foreigners and nonresident citizens. ** Except foreigners.
Angola	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Anguilla	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[19]
Belize	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[20]
Bermuda	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Bhutan	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[21][22]
Bolivia	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[23][24]
Botswana	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
British Virgin Islands	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Costa Rica	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Democratic Republic of the Congo	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Djibouti	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[25]
Eswatini	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Georgia	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Grenada	Yes	No	No	Territorial Taxation.[26]
Guatemala	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Guinea-Bissau	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[27][28]
Hong Kong	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Lebanon	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Libya	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5][29]
Macau	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Malawi	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Marshall Islands	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[30]
Micronesia	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[31]
Namibia	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Nauru	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[32]
Nicaragua	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Palau	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[33]
Palestine	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Panama	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Paraguay	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[34][35][36][Note 2]
Seychelles	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Singapore	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]
Somalia	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[37]
Syria	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[38]
Tokelau	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[39]
Tuvalu	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[40]
Zambia	Yes	No	No	Territorial taxation.[5]

Hmmmm, North Korea or Palestine?

So they identified 114 illegal firearm suppliers in a matter of a couple of days. So why didn't they do something about it earlier?

The whole police system is one big joke (pun not intended)

Amazing what makes news sometimes. I have encountered a few people who have forgotten where they are staying and on more than one occasion have helped them. I partiicularly remember one man who left his luggage as he was too early to check in and was walking around in the Phuket heat wearing an overcoat! No idea how we found his hotel but somehow we dod.

Made my mind up that I won't return to Thailand on a full time basis when my daughter finishes her education here in the UK. I'll spend a few months in Thailand on a tourist visa but no more retirement extensions.

Successful job done by the raiders of Big Joke's home. Outcome doesnt matter now.

I saw this article the other day. I think it is based on skewed data. 

The official population of Phuket is based on those that are registered as living in the province. Most Thais people that live and work in Phuket are registered in other provinces, not to forget the many thousands of Burmese migrant workers. The same goes for the other Thai provinces high up in the list.

Other countries don't use this registration system to record official populations in particular areas, and I'm sure this is the reason for Thai resort areas faring so poorly.

I'll also add that it's an odd method of defining overcrowding anyway. It would mean that cities with large populations would never appear on the list, though many are undoubtedly more overcrowded than many of the places on that list.

1 hour ago, webfact said:

other EU members such as France, Italy, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Anyone spot the deliberate mistake? ????

Will the influential figures in Buriram appear on the blacklist?

Withh the appointed cabinet, a corruption crackdown is impossible.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

The move, a short-term measure to boost foreign tourism, is expected to see an increase in the number of Chinese visitors to the kingdom this year by 700,000 people after arrivals from China have been disappointing due to tighter screening introduced earlier in the year with an economic downturn and loss of consumer confidence in the Communist country.  

Am I reading this correctly? The numbers were down partly due to tighter screening, meaning more Chinese were denied entry. Yet those denied a visa for whatever reason can now enter Thailand anyway? Seems an odd move to me but when has anything in Thailand ever been thought through properly?

28 minutes ago, webfact said:

“so that the country and the government can move forward in addressing problems facing the people. I still have other pressing engagements, so I have decided not to take the post,”

So, nothing to do with past dodgy practices then?

They could do all this in a couple of days if the system allowed it. Five more weeks allowing a caretaker government to make decisions with no mandate from the people is quite wrong.

The whole Thai electoral system needs a revamp, but it probably won't happen under this new PM and his new gang of cronies.

Today Sreetha will be elected PM. 

Early Parliamentary debate will indirectly involve pardon of Thaksin.

Royal pardon officially occurring next month.

Out of his luxury cell in the Bangkok Hilton within a month.

All pre-planned and pre-agreed with the Parliamentary partners, the uncles and someone else.

And they all live happily ever after.