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Does it float in the air? What about the land it sits on. Do you own that "freehold" as well? So, you did have to report previously. Proves my point. Correct, but farang are "aliens" in Thailand. Lower than a soi dog.

The Thai's control the trade of the baht to inflate it's value.

No. One where a country, take Vietnam for example, repels invading armies, and has done so for centuries. Eg. China, French, America. Now that's a proud military history.

To what degree???? As you may be the same with me. Interesting you never commented on Thailand's "proud" military history.

If not "colonized" what do you call it? There's a visa for everyone to live here, either legitimately, or through an agent. Do you know about Thailand's proud military battles over the centuries? They just gave away their land to avoid conflict. Yes, so proud. Down the road, in Vietnam, different story. Fought off the Chinese, the French, the Americans, and then went into Cambodia and liberated the people from Pol Pot. You have no idea.

A very old argument that has been debunked before. The old, "I've lived here for 20 years." "Oh, great, can you tell me how to do this, or where to find that." Reply, "I don't know. I get the Thai missus to do it." Yes, the amount of time living here definitely makes one more knowledgeable. I once met a farang in a bar over a beer who proudly informed me he owned a rubber tree farm in Issan. I said "That's interesting. How's the price of a kilo of rubber going on the market these days?" His reply was, "What do you mean." Ahhhh, yes, it's all about the time in country, not experience. How can it be scaremongering if nobody knows what is going to happen???? Shouldn't it be more "scary" because we don't know what will happen? Good Luck with that. Just keep ignoring. I'm sure you will be fine. No surprises for you in the future, no Sir. Perhaps if you ingore it enough, it will all go away. Never claimed to be an expert. What I do know is This Is Thailand, and farang retirees are easy targets for tax money. We don't live in the cash economy. We remit our funds and there is a record of every transaction. Interesting times ahead, but no point arguing with me about tax. If you have to pay, take it up with the Thai government, but "ignore" at your own peril.

Then you don't go to the toilet for a week. I suppose you also save on toilet paper and water for the flushing.

Possibly because he is too knowledgeable for the average Australian AN member, and needs to be amongst more educated members in the America Forum. Our loss is your gain.

Actually, I think Gen Z are waiting for you to die, so they can get their inheritance. It makes for interesting conversation when expats hook up with a Thai girl half their age, and he starts shifting his assets to the village. The kids are not to happy seeing their inheritance moving offshore.

Does Thailand have a reasonable pathway to Permanent Residency? No. Can a foreigner own freehold property in Thailand? No. Do you have to report every 90 days? Yes. Does getting a tattoo of Buddha make you more Thai. No. That retirement visa / extension gives you no more rights than someone on a 30 day visa exemption stamp, and you could be married here, with two kids, have a business, and some property, and living here for 20 years. Do you disagree with this? You are a farang, and will always be a farang. There's only a very few hat have Permanent Residency. The system is designed so you have no rights here, and never will. Wake up.

Well said. The member informs other members that they may have a tax liability, but to discuss collection and enforcement of said tax liability, that's scaremongering. It's laughable. Members want to know the whole picture, including where and how to pay, as well as the consequences for not paying, not just that they may have to pay some tax.

Best advice is to do nothing this year. Keep the status quo and see how this unfolds. Be patient.

Completely contradicts your theory that there is no need for people to hold off buying a property here until they see how this unfolds. Ahhhh, maybe that's because the member is not Chinese or Russian.

I have already said, perhaps you did not understand. Focusing back on Thailand, do you deny the huge sex trade here?

Obviously, you can't post a link. Troll.

I agree with your advice. I would just add, turn off the router for more than 10 seconds, perhaps 1 minute. I would also add moving the router, even just by 30cm and rotating it a few degrees can fix the issue. Also, if the router is near any other device emitting a signal, cut the power to the other device and test again. I think you are right. The member probably has to find a different channel, but best to try the basic troubleshooting first.

Probably because True will not tell the Truth.

You seem to be one of those holier than thou posters. Sure, you have never had a happy ending in Thailand, or done "the girlfriend experience." What BS. Yeah, I have had interactions with prostitutes in some countries around the world. So what? Have you been to Dubai and seen how many Thai women working in the sex trade there? What about Korea and Malaysia? Not only is sex Thailand's biggest tourist attraction, but it's also one of its biggest exports.

Should your share portfolio boom, I gather you will get nothing. Meanwhile, people who have never worked a day in their life get the full pension.

If the term for it is not "colonized" what would you call it? There's farang all over the country, many working in just about every industry here, even those reserved for Thai's, through a proxy, usually their Thai missus. All those foreign factories with cheap Thai labor, with the products exported to western markets. All those big multi-national companies in Bangkok, with the profits being sent offshore. Maybe you think farang are here to just help the Thai's.

Hard to deny, no pun intended. Hamburg, Amsterdam etc have nothing on Bangkok / Thailand. Both of these countries, and countless others, have Thai sex workers. Many use an agent where it's organized crime, many also use such visas as student visas, but their focus is working in the sex trade. Do you deny this????

Yes. Apologies. The 12-2024 Cumulative Update. I did read Microsoft either were allowing, or couldn't stop, the upgrades to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware, but they may have been able to stop updates to unofficial upgrades on unsupported hardware.

The Thai missus will dob him in, when he is past his used by date for her.

Watch out for that ATO task force looking for rogue opal miners who still collect Centerlink.

Clearly, not enough. Keep at it. You are a falang in Thailand. You are already "jumping." Perhaps you just don't know it. No. A Thai who gets caught out not paying tax still gets to live in Thailand, right? It's their birthright. They are a Thai citizen. YOU, on the other hand, can be black listed. Yes, yes, I know. Rocket science. Happy New Year to you also. Stop being naive.