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Probably because tax is lost on non electric vehicle sales when people are electrified...

The post you refers to says "...since the 1st November reopening", which is what the the source says. I remember that some of the first cases on Samui were among incoming French people.

I found this about Thailand once I searched for the influenza epidemic in 2018... According to the latest WHO data published in 2018 Influenza and Pneumonia Deaths in Thailand reached 44,549 or 9.11% of total deaths. The age adjusted Death Rate is 47.82 per 100,000 of population ranks Thailand #70 in the world. Review other causes of death by clicking the links below or choose the full health profile. Source: World Health Rankings. Total number of Covid-19 deaths per today (7th December) is 20,995, which equals 30 per 100,000. Source: WorldOmeter.

7th December Samui +11 new cases Phangan +14 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com One inbound air passenger tested positive with Covid-19 yesterday December 6th, the first case since the 1st November reopening.

Don't think too much: Bloomberg 6th December 2021 "Moderna Sinks While Market Awaits Omicron Variant Updates"...????

Thanks... I used CPAC (SCG), which can be ordered at HomeMart in Maenam. CPAC has a home page HERE. APAC is also available on Samui - I presume, as I've seen APAC cement trucks - but I don't know any details. Water proof cement mix was only a few hundred baht extra per cubic meter - the small cement trucks delivers two cubic meters, if up hill you can only get cement from small trucks - but if you ask at HomeMart or CPAC, they will know exactly which mix and additives that will be the best for the purpose. For a pool - and wet rooms - you need additional water protection to be sprayed on the finished concrete...????

March 2011, it rained hard for 10 days - some 1100 mm if I remember right - and airport was closed with a huge stand-by line the morning it reopened (I know, I was there, but not stand.by). Shelfes in food stores were empty - apart from canned Spam - and tourists on Koh Tao were rescued by the Navy's hangar ship. Recently we however got 1600 mm during the monsoon season in a November month, three times as much as average, and almost a whole year of Samui-downpour that in average is 1900 mm (in rounded numbers)...????

What a surprise...???? However, Thailand could have more arrivals - probably a lot more - than the have, if it was little less complicated to enter, I know that many give up because of that...????

Transforming to digital age however needs to to be well considered. It would for example be a relief when banks don't need to copy one's passport for every personal transaction - pink ID-card with photo is not good enough - in SCB's attempt to enter the 4.0-age they began to hand me a tiny screen and digital pen to sign. It's difficult to make a signature with a rubber-tip pen on a tiny screen that looks like a real old-fashioned signature made by an ink-pen on paper - at least for me - so how will that compare with the signature in one's bank book when revealed in the black light, yes the cashier still did that together with the having my passport to look at, which also holds my signature. Now that's the least part of it, when I tried to tell the kind cashier that this will not work, when withdrawing some cash from my company-account, pointing on my mandatory rubber stamp for the company. She however insisted again and again, and finally I wrote my fake-looking signature on the screen, and took the company's rubber stamp to make the mandatory stamp on the screen... At this point she stoppe me, and ran away to find the branch manager. After some chat between them the cashier came back and removed the tiny screen, instead she found an old-fashioned paper-withdrawal slip in a drawer and handed it to me...???? This incident happened a couple of times - different cashiers and different branch managers on duty - about two month later everything is back to old-fashioned paper deposit- and withdrawal slips, and rubber stamps for company cases, for all cash transactions in the SCB branches that I visit...????

I hope for Nicholas Baggs that he has a Covid-19-travel insurance, which covers lost flight and re-booking, then the problem is minor, there's still a long way to Xmas. From the article: "We offer our wholehearted apology to Mr Baggs for the disruption this has caused to his travel plans and have offered a full refund for the price of his test." It might be cheaper for Boots to offer som help and compensation to get Nick airborne to thailand, than the bad-will this story might create, being more helpful might instead create a positive story and goodwill...

If those experts that are talking now are right, then Omicron might be the relief of Covid-19 when being the major variant with less symptoms and almost no severe illness, replacing the dangerous disease to something more like a common cold. There might be hope this will end the messy World that Covid-19 made...???? Unfortunately for those that invested in Covid-19-vaccine stocks, they fell rapidly in value yesterday...????

If those experts that are talking now are right, then Omicron might be the relief of Covid-19 when being the major variant with less symptoms and almost no severe illness, replacing the dangerous disease to something more like a common cold. There might be hope this will end the messy World that Covid-19 made...???? Unfortunately for those that invested in Covid-19-vaccine stocks, they fell rapidly in value yesterday...????

6th December Samui +10 new cases Phangan +20 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com Koh Samui: Bophut 3, Maret 3, Na Muang 2, Taling Ngam 2.

Still tight roof...???? Rain was worse - much worse - in 2011, and by that time also perfect water tight roof...????

Yes, and I'm fully aware of all that, but I wrote "follows the property" - self-understood house and home, including a condo - to explain the difference to the Yellow House Book, which is an address confirmation for foreigners, but not mandatory to a house. I explained further about The Blue House Book in later post...????

@chocolatesound1, you need to visit the Tessa Ban office in Nathon, the district office opposite the Caltex gasoline station. Google Street View link HERE, looking towards the correct entrance. The desks at left are for House Book registrations. Preferably bring someone that can speak Thai - they speak very little English - and your passport and the title deed for the property. The staff is very polite and helpful, and they will tell you the procedure, if they cannot instantly replace the house book...????

It's not correct, at least not for Samui. The Blue House Book is issued by Tessa Ban, same office that issue building permission. The Blue Book is for the house - i.e. House Book not for the land...????

The Blue Book follows the property, the Yellow Book is just an address confirmation for aliens. You need a Blue Book for a property, and for registering electricity.

If it's the one next to the Pavilion Resort, it seems to be closed - Google Maps says "permanently closed" - or under reconstruction, just as like Pavilion. This is how it looked last time I snapped a photo; however it's a year ago now, i.e. 10th October 2020...

In the always unbearably bright light of hindsight, some folks will realize that they should have save some up in a private retirement pension, or just saved something up in something...

It's been in the news several times about how to apply and walk-ins for resident foreigners; however, you need to check locally what's offered and when in the area where you stay...????

5th December Samui +17 new cases Phangan +21 new cases Koh Tao, no data Source: Kohmui.com Koh Samui: Bophut 8, Maret 5, Maenam 2, Ang Thong 1, Taling Ngam 1.

I realize that you understand my initial point...

Thailand shares tax information with numerous countries due DTAs, sharing tax information is the basis for a DTA. The Thai tax-man - which in real life are a pair of polite ladies - might show up with information about income from one's fhome country's tax department, to check if tax have been duly paid; I talk from experience, so does several of my country fellows living here. If you live here, don't be surprised to get a visit from the taxman, even you are not registered for income tax. As with any visa and extension of stay based both the entry visa and condition for extension, it has all the time been depending of changes, and it has worked quite well so for many years. My initial comment was my opinion of a solution for having numerous both digital nomads and remote workers to spend time or settle in Thailand, and both spend money and pay income tax, by making simple rules that are not to distant from the present rules in use. Aiming for high educated digital nomads and remote workers in a relative high income level - as it has been mentioned before - will in my opinion not be likely to get the wishful million of arrivals. That said, I need to mention the joker, I have idea if there could be a million Chinese coming that fulfill all the high level demands...????

What are the existing rules for digital nomads and remote workers..?????