TigerandDog

just finished season 2 of Troppo, only 2 eps to go in S2 of House of the Dragon, S1 & 2 of D I Ray, for Star Wars enthusiasts The Acolyte was a good series, also The Jetty another good British crime series. If the poms do anything well it's their tv crime series. Movies check out The Boneyard. 

56 minutes ago, bob smith said:

Sadly, Thailand will probably have to wait until most the dinosaurs are 6ft under until any tangible change occurs.

 

Contrary to popular belief I actually interact with Thais from all across the social strata and age groups.

 

I have noticed a trend.

 

Those born before 1990 tend to have a more conservative view on life. They have been well indoctrinated by the Thai school system and can remember a time without the internet. They are, imo, mostly a lost cause. They still have deep feelings for the establishment and are reluctant to any form of drastic change. Of course there are exceptions, but generally this is what I have noticed..

 

Those born post 1990 are somewhat different, and those born post 2000 are most certainly different. They are progressive, well informed, mailable, open minded and resourceful. They are screaming for change and many are quite embarrassed to live here and always ask me why do I live here when they are so desperate to leave..

 

If you extrapolate that over Thai society as a whole, then I fear it may be another two decades or so before the youth of today finally get what they want.

 

bob.

It's taken a long time Bob but you finally managed to post a comment that actually makes sense instead of your usual drivel.

1 hour ago, gargamon said:

Sorry, I get my medical info reading medical journals, reading the Merck Manual, not from some self proclaimed expert on YouTube. Ever wonder why these “experts“ post this stuff on YouTube? Probably they need the money. Urologists should make nice coin in their practice, at least the competent ones.

then speak to your GP if you're that narrow minded. A person offers you a viable alternative that works and you don't even have the common sense to research it before posting dumb replies.

1 hour ago, AreYouGerman said:

 

I tried PT 141 and the nausea is insane. Yes, it gives incredible hard erections and the orgasm is crazy, but it's not worth the side effects.

Just need to reduce the dose and administer it on an empty stomach, then there is very little or no nausea

Just now, gargamon said:

Medical info from youtube? Hahahaha 

plenty of Youtube videos by Urologists on the topic of PT-141 peptide. You should check them out first before replying like a jerk would.

13 hours ago, georgegeorgia said:

Even with exercise,I lift weights everyday and walk upstairs mopping , I still can't get "hard" erection like J did years ago 

 

I even had the P 💉 Shot in Pattaya , didn't work.

I'm thinking of a clinic in Bangkok called the HE clinic that injects  Hydraulic Acid into your penis .

 

Other than that we must change our gender in regards to sexual activity.

forget that drastic measure, get yourself some PT-141 peptide (injectable or nasal spray). With the right dose it works a charm for men and women. Plenty of Youtube videos giving info about it and minimum & maximum doses. Do your research first though, and yes it is available in Thailand but only as an injectable to your belly fat, like an insulin shot.

14 hours ago, uncletiger said:

First, let me say I am not just MAGA. I am ultra MAGA. I not only support Trump, I support the over 200 generals helping to run this psyop we're living through. Only someone completely asleep would believe this was a genuine assassination attempt that "failed."

 

Calling legitimate questions "conspiracy theories" is a typical example of how we are being manipulated during this time. And beyond just the pejoratives used to describe the questions, the theories themselves that are being put forth are all nonsensical, trying to say this was engineered in order to influence the election.

 

I propose the following:

 

1. This was absolutely staged. Trump has private security in addition to SS. Both teams had to be controlled to allow this.

2. The idea that was staged for election purposes is ridiculous. It required way too much coordination, and way too much puppeteering of incidental actors to pull something like this off just for a bump in the polls.

 

So why would the military intelligence team behind Trump go through all of this? There's really one reason that would seem to justify all of this.

 

They are setting up an investigation which is going to expose the crimes and corruption of the intelligence agencies run by the deep state/globalist criminal syndicate.  This was staged to look exactly like an operation pulled off by the Secret Service, and likely with the help of the CIA and FBI. And I suspect most of those who participated probably thought it was a legitimate op by their globalist masters.

 

But the election angle is pure distraction. Look deeper. We're in the middle of a war. A modern, 5th generation psychological/information/cyber war rather than a kinetic one. But still a war being fought between sovereign patriots and a globalist syndicate that invaded the USA by installing the illegitimate and unconstitutional Biden regime in 2021 via election fraud.

 

Every significant event needs to be viewed through this lens. One thing is for sure. If the media is telling you something, its a narrative that you should be ignoring. This was staged. It was most definitely a conspiracy. The only question is the details of the conspiracy.

the only thing you got right in your comment was that it was staged. The rest is just absolute gibberish.

3 hours ago, placeholder said:

And the sad loon who attempted the assassination also donated to a progressive campaign.

"Investigators are still seeking Crooks' motive - despite his Republican leanings, he had donated recently to a progressive voter-turnout campaign in 2021 - but indicated he'd planned the attack well in advance...

A classmate remembered Crooks as a frequent target of bullies. Kids picked on him for wearing camouflage to class and his quiet demeanor, Jason Kohler, 21, said. Crooks usually ate lunch alone, Kohler said

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/07/14/trump-shot-crooks-assassin-sniper/74401755007/

 

 

how could he indicate that he planned the attack well in advance? Are the Secret Service able to communicate with the dead now? Stop believing the BS in the papers. This is Chump planning & setting up playing the victim at it's best.

15 minutes ago, placeholder said:

If it was a setup, which it clearly wasn't, the only way that works is if Trump is in on the plot and somehow had participated in having himself wounded by some other means or by outright fakery and there was no wound at all. The only plot was the one the belonged to the would-be assassin. 

Chump was in on it, and there was a wound otherwise how do you explain the blood from his right ear, because that's the kind of desperate low stunt he needed to pull to get his support base riled up. Otherwise, being the coward that he is he would have cowered and run away as quickly as possible instead of saying wait, wait, wait and then posturing to his cult members the way he did.. Nobody has mentioned yet that the shooter was a registered Republican, instead t\he Trumpists are blaming Biden and the Democrats. He's going to milk this for every dollar he can scam out his brainwashed cult members.

On 7/1/2024 at 8:18 PM, Fat is a type of crazy said:

I think you are mistaken i.e. if the income is sourced in Australia it may be taxable in Australia at non-resident rates e.g. the government super pension mentioned, rental income on Australian property, etc. Of course interest earned in Australia is still taxed at 10 per cent for non residents. You can likely get a tax credit for tax paid in the other country but the way your post reads is once you are a resident of Thailand and pay tax in Thailand on all income there is no tax to pay in Australia full stop. 

This post was quite good in the name of Dinga - it is  looking at the new tax rules for Thailand but discusses the Double Taxation Agreement and tax for non residents of Australia. 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1306896-thai-government-to-tax-remitted-income-from-abroad-for-tax-residents-starting-2024/page/282/

 

My post was based entirely on information I received from a tax accountant in Melbourne. After watching the video in another post it appears that the information I was given by that accounting firm was not entirely correct. Nevertheless it still means that the aussie age pension is assessable income here and a tax return must be submitted. The other point I will reiterate is that if an aussie expat is permanently residing in Thailand, full time, and they have no assets in Oz they should notify the ATO that they have permanently left Oz which means no more aussie tax returns are required and as such no aussie non-resident taxation on the age pension. With all the deductions we are entitled to claim ( see posts by Mike Lister itemising them all) spme tax would be payable here, BUT if you have been receiving interest on your bank account and that interest has exceeded 20kTHB then teh tax that is automatically deducted could be enough to reduce your tax payable to zero or get you a partial refund of teh tax you've already paid on your bank interest.

On 3/30/2024 at 9:28 AM, mfd101 said:

On 2 or 3 occasions in the last 2 years I have received queries from my various Oz financial institutions (including NAB) as to my tax status in Thailand. In (then) total ignorance of the Thai proposals & decisions to follow, I replied in each case (truthfully) that I don't have a TIN & I have no income sourced in Thailand ie all my income comes from Oz. At the time I thought that was an end of the matter.

 

In addition, for the last 4 or 5 years, without consultation the ATO has treated me as non-resident for tax purposes. Fair enough I guess, and it means I now have to pay additional tax (AUD8 or 9K) at the end of each FY as I have no 32% tax-free threshold.

 

My income is entirely Federal government public service superannuation (CSC/CSS - long-since closed).

 

Question: What happens when, later this year, I take out a TIN and prepare my first tax statement for Thailand starting 1Jan24? Noting the DTA, will that mean I cease to pay any Oz tax? And can I get refunded on the Oz tax I will already have paid from January this year? (Without knowing the likely Thai taxes I will have to pay it's hard to decide whether I'll be better off taxwise here, but I think with the ATO now swiping 32% of my total income I'm likely to be better off paying ONLY Thai tax.)

 

 

Regardless of whether you have a Thai tax file number or not, under the Australia/Thai DTA Oz CANNOT legally tax you, even at non resident rates as long as you are a resident for Thai taxation purposes (viz 180 days or more per calendar year). The DTA stipulates that ONLY the country where a person is a resident for tax purposes can tax that person, viz. Thailand. All you need to be able to do is prove to the ATO, preferably using a tax accountant who has full knowledge of the DTA, that you have been a Thai resident for tax purposes for those 4 or 5 years and submit a claim for a FULL refund of all taxes paid to the ATO during that period.  Earlier this year I telephoned a tax accountant in Melbourne who specialises in DTA's, with regards to my Oz Age pension to be told that even though it was tax free in Oz it was assessable income here in Thailand, and during that conversation he told me about one of his clients who had been living fulltime in Thailand for the previous 15 years and being taxed by the ATO at the Oz non-resident tax rate of 32,5% on his age pension. The accountant lodged a claim with the ATO making them aware that under the relevant section of the DTA that the ATO could not legally tax their client on any income as he was aThai resident for taxation purposes. The client received a FULL refund  of the tax paid over those 15 years. 

The thing to keep in mind is that as per several posts by Mike Lister, there is a full range of deductions that we can claim to reduce the actual assessable amount thus reducing the amount of tax payable if any. In my case those deductions will reduce the annual amount of my assessable income (age pension only) to below the 120,000 baht level thus resulting in my still having to lodge a tax return BUT not having to pay any tax whatsoever.  The other step yhou should take, via a tax accountant, is to have the ATO notified that your last tax return was your final one as you would not be returning to Australia.

18 hours ago, Jingthing said:

About Jomtien.

You may be able to just show your passbook going back the full year IF there are no composite transactions (deposits or withdrawals).

If not every single transaction is shown in the book, then you must get a printed statement from the bank going back the full year.

did you read the OP's entire post? He was told that he must provide a 12 month statement when the next extension is to be done. They'll easily be able to see that his father made the withdrawal before the 3 months were up.

The last TM30 I submitted was in 2016 when I moved to CM. I never use my passport when checking into hotels in Thailand. Always use my pink ID card or driver's license. Will be travelling to Vietnam in August and today when doing my 90 report I asked about TM30 on my return. Was advised I would need to do a new one. So to avoid possible difficulties when doing my next extension will get the missus to submit a new TM30 on our return.

Do you have a debit card with Kasikorn bank? This amount looks like it could be an annual direct debit for a debit card. 

51 minutes ago, TheFishman1 said:

Hey BOB, stop posting for a week and see if that will help TIT

no he should NEVER post or comment again. Unless he can come up with something sensible instead of the never ending drivel that he does.

19 hours ago, Tod Daniels said:

How about I don't do anything like that 🙂 and instead you take it for the honest first hand experience a friend had out at Chaengwattana?

There are OVER 80 offices in the country, there are HUNDREDS of officers who issue extension.

I'm relating what happened and you can take it at face value or you can post the b/s engrish translation over and over.

I know how it reads believe me BUT I'm telling you how it CAN work.

I'll leave it to you to tell the immigration officer they're wrong and see how far you get pushing that rope  

Now will the O/P have a problem in Chiang Mai NEXT year if they drop the balance below 800K baht 3 months after they applied for the extension this year, I guess that remains to be seen when they show up next year. I'd err on the side of caution, as I said they already pointed out we're talking 3 weeks difference between when they applied for and when the new extension took effect, it is NOT a significant amount of time in the grand scheme of things. 

The OP shouldn't have any issue at CM. I've been doing extensions there for the past 8 years and the funds have ALWAYS been based on when extension application is processed NOT the permitted to stay to date.

CM is NOT the rogue office some people make it out to be. If you have your paperwork correct you will not encounter any issues. The complainers usually don't have the correct copies or are missing copies. I've found CM to be very consistent in the way they process things.

3 hours ago, Tod Daniels said:

On this we will agree to disagree, 😕 

Recently had someone AT Chaengwattana who had pulled the money out 3 months after he applied for the new extension (even though his year extension expiration date was just 2 days after that as he waited to the last minute to apply)

When he went this year for his extension, with the year detail transaction print out the officer noticed he'd pulled the money out 3 months after he applied not 3 months after the extension took effect (doesn't matter WHEN you apply your next extension starts on the day your current one expires) and called him on the carpet for it. (Yep she called him out because he was 2 days short of the 3 months seasoning)

She told him technically he was on overstay for 9 months <- since the day he failed to meet the seasoning requirements.

He panicked, collected his paperwork and left, ended up using an agent to get those agent gotten hand your passport over and it comes back with the year extension from Nakhon Nowhere in it 

SO since that episode I've always stuck to the keep the funds in the account for 3 months after your new extension takes effect, then the balance can't go below 400K baht the rest of the year and you have to get it back to 800K baht 2 months before you apply for the next yearly extension.

The O/P said it's a three week difference in timing, so I'd still suggest he wait it out

Firstly the IO was WRONG with her interpretation of the rule.

Secondly see Dr Jack's post with a copy of the actual rules hereunder:

Please note it clearly says FILING date NOT extension date

Thirdly you can post an admission to all in this forum for posting incorrect/misleading information based on an IO's wrong interpretation of the rules and stating they are correct.

1 hour ago, Tod Daniels said:

Count three months from the date the new extension takes effect, NOT 3 months from the date you applied for the year extension, and realize it's 3 months date to date 😉 

not correct Tod. Dr Jack gave the correct information.

15 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

3 months after APPLICATION 

and 2 months PRIOR to next application.

 

Note: seems more offices are requiring bank statements now

CM are now requiring 12 months bank statements in addition to the usual passbook copies.

On 6/16/2024 at 12:15 PM, bob smith said:

Here's what you need to do, NOW, step by step.

 

1. Get out of your chair and into the shower. Shave and apply your favorite cologne.

 

2. Pack your bags & put on your Sunday best. 

 

3. Search on Skyscanner for any available flights back to your home country within the next 48 hours. Once the flight is found, book it.

 

4. Leave your house immediately. If the flight isn't for a few days then book yourself into a nice hotel around the airport until it is time to check in.

 

5. Call a cab to the airport 4 hours before departure.

 

6. Check in, have something to eat in the departure hall, smile at the customs official and never look back!

 

You have been taken for a ride. You have been used at every turn. You have been treated like a mug. These 'people' deserve nothing more from you. It's unfortunate about your daughter but you MUST look after number one. Your wife will only use her against you anyway. Get the hell out of here now and I wish you the best of luck in the future.

 

bob.

Bob, finally a comment from you that makes sense.

What country in farangland?

In Australia once a couple, whether married or de-facto, have been together for 1 year or longer the lady is entitled to 50% of whatever her partner owns, viz house, money etc.

I guess it all depends on the particular faranglands laws about separations after a long term de-facto relationship. The farang concerned should be making sure of the law with regards to de-facto relationships and in his country how that will impact him financially after the separation.

On 6/16/2024 at 12:08 AM, SteveJames said:

95-105 Baht for 2 Litres of Milk on Grab and in TOPS...  thats around £2.20 ... My mate just showed me £1.49 at Tescos in the UK.  I always noticed Milk was not cheap here, I call it "White Gold" in this house...But Why?   Do Dairy Cows go on Strike here?

There's no dairy industry in Thailand, like in the west. Pretty much all the milk is imported, hence the prices. Australia has a strong dairy industry and the average price there is AUD $2.40 (59.2 baht) per litre.  So your 2 litre bottle would cost around 118 baht (AUD $4.80) but its actually cheaper than that in Thailand. We buy our milk in the 5 litre bottles for average price of 237 baht (AUD$9.59 - AUD $1.92 per litre), which equates to 47.4 baht per litre. Not that expensive really.