kiwikeith

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

 

Here is part of the New Zealand double tax agreement  regarding pensions, just downloaded it will help NZ expats

double tax agreement NZ pensions.pdf see page 23

1 hour ago, kiwikeith said:

 

Here is part of the New Zealand double tax agreement  regarding pensions, just downloaded it will help NZ expats

double tax agreement NZ pensions.pdf see page 23

Heres the link to  the British and Ireland agreement  https://www.rd.go.th/fileadmin/download/nation/english_e.pdf article 19 see pages 25,26,27,28

2 minutes ago, bondjames007 said:

 

Useful Information.  Thank you

 

For anyone who is British, living in Thailand, and withdrawing there UK private pension funds  into Thailand,   what's the situation with the double tax treaty,  are we exempt ?  I heard every country has different rules regarding this. 

you will have to look up the agreement between the UK and Thailand, The agreement Between the Government UK and the government of Thailand For the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income

23 hours ago, KannikaP said:

Thanks Mike & Charlie, the best explanation of it all.

16 hours ago, traveller101 said:

The treaty between Australia and Thailand stipulates under Article 18, that Pensions and Annuities can only be taxed in the state of origin.

From an australian viewpoint, payments would comprise the government pension as well as regular payments from a persons (over their working life) accumulated superannuation funds.

 

 

Article 19

Pensions (New Zealand agreement)

1/ pensions(including government pensions)and annuities paid to a resident of a contracting states shall be taxable only in that state.

2/ The term ''annuity'' means a stated sum payable periodically at stated times, during life or during a specified ascertainable period of time, under an obligation to make payments in return for adequate and full consideration in money or money's worth

On 12/4/2023 at 3:24 PM, Geir Rasch said:

I have 100k deduction on pension, 60k personal deduction, 190k age-deduction plus deduction for wife and health insurance. I do not pay in to any pension plan in Thailand or overseas. I have no morgage in Thailand which would give deduction on payd interest up to 100k.

Here is part of the New Zealand double tax agreement  regarding pensions, just downloaded it will help NZ expats

double tax agreement NZ pensions.pdf see page 23

On 1/6/2024 at 6:39 PM, freeworld said:

 

The report did not state if he was on a balcony, only that he was shaking a gate, fleeing, climbed a condo wall and vanished and then fell from the 8th floor.

Trying to get back in lost his card, maybe on something, we'll never know  ,Rip.

On 1/6/2024 at 7:15 PM, Bangkok Barry said:

How many were arrested? Were their cars impounded? As usual, the appalling reporting here tells us nothing, apart of pointlessly saying how many were caught in each province. That is completely irrelevant.

You must read between the lines 

12 hours ago, candide said:

About the second point: sure, we all know the army always obeys the government in this country! 😁

 

About the first one: you are right. In a democratic country, there would have been an investigation and people responsible for It would have been convicted. Why did the army and the Dems bury the case, as it would have been the ideal occasion to nail Thaksin?

Then he would rise again 

On 1/4/2024 at 7:22 PM, JoePai said:

Can his nose get any browner !

Never 

On 1/3/2024 at 8:07 PM, JoePai said:

Fortunately he had no idea how to use it

I am amazed that the bloody shoes confirmed he stayed at the address.

On 1/3/2024 at 6:43 PM, George Bowman said:

I saw the video and 'casually browsing' did not come to mind. I would have said 'casing the joint'.

Definitely agree, casing, but pathetic at his age, why risk all the trouble, hope someone identifies him, probably long gone by now.

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

...and influencers. Never discount the power of influencers.

Balcony jumping wins hands down. 

11 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Appears he rear-ended a parked pick-up?

What was he smoking 

7 hours ago, retarius said:

I like Pattaya when it is not crowded and the hotels are cheap. If you fill it up with low quality tourists there is no point ever going there. You will pay and arm and a leg for a hotel room (compared to when the place is empty). If you come for a beach holiday with your family, not much to do except to sit on a poor quality beach watching the filthy sea that you daren't go in because you would be rightly afraid for your health.

What I do miss is going when it rains and sitting on Soi Buakauw with a cold beer watching the poop and rats rising out of the sewers manhole covers.....nice!

Some things never change, 

2 hours ago, zzaa09 said:

Historically, principally practiced worldwide to the present day.

Thailand certainly doesn't have the market cornered. 

Sadly it's the same world wide. 

11 hours ago, Iron Tongue said:

We don't know what happened, so your judgement is premature.

I personally doubt tourists of any nation would randomly start attacking locals as a group.

Unless they were provoked 

3 hours ago, Will B Good said:

So 18 on board.....two seemingly went down with the ship.....what happened to the rest?

Amazing, that they could not all get to rescue rafts, it must have gone down quickly. A sad thing is loss of life and to many Thai boats sink, collide and kill tourists, hello, where is the safety checks on vessels and checks on crew and there experience, just cowboys, thinking it won't happen to me, Satu, 

5 hours ago, madmitch said:

I wonder what illness she'll come down with?

Post traumatic stress, from being away from the family so long, and from being innocent and found guilty. 

She will need good care 

5 hours ago, hotchilli said:

From the link:

Briefly, he was by mistake in the wrong airport. He also was sick with an upset stomach. The first thing he did when his taxi reached the airport was to visit a toilet. When he emerged from that, he saw the black handbag on the floor and thought he should help return it to the owner. He picked up the bag. Then his stomach movements forced him to quickly retreat into a handicap toilet with his suitcase and his backpack – and the handbag. In the toilet, his backpack opened and spilled all the content out on the floor. After his business in the toilet he scraped everything back into the backpack – including the black bag – and realizing he was in the wrong airport, he hurried out to catch a taxi to go to Don Mueang airport. Completely forgetting that he also had the handbag he had found and its content in his backpack.

 

Nice try... 

 

I don't think I could invent a worse story 

14 hours ago, connda said:

I've lived here 16+ years now and I can honestly state that this one instance isn't "destroying the image of Phuket taxis" but on the contrary, it's the reoccurrance of Thais physically attacking tourists, making this an accurate representation of the Phuket Taxi Problem that has existed since I first arrived and probably will be an issue until international tourists wake up to the realities of Thai-on-tourist violence as well as the dangers of Thai roads in general in that area, and begin to avoid Phuket to the point where the economy is impacted.  What expat here doesn't know the Phuket taxi mafi stories?  You'd need to be living under a rock.
Regarding "destroying the image of the country?"  Yeah.  That is true.  Just look at the impact of violence such as this - a Thai man physically assaulting and pulling a foreign women out of his car.  I find it revolting just like other instances of Thai-on-foreigner violence that leads to death and injuries.
These instances are paid lip-service by Thai politicos, but the actual problem is obviously still a problem, and if history is any indicators it will continue to be a problem in the future.

In the meanwhile - blame the tourist.

Not to mention the return of the sinking speed boats and non suicidal Bungy jumping from balconies 

17 hours ago, digger70 said:

More then Tempted, Bought & Paid by the Puppeteer. 

Anyway whatever happens He's going to be a Free man.

They are not going to put him in jail to start his sentence again.

Dr's all over the world were silenced by their government, whom are not doctors, during the pandemic, drug companies advised politicians and then they silenced doctors and media from talking about treatment medicines. 

Doctors are not trusted since, as least not as much nowadays in NZ.

14 hours ago, bob smith said:

Lower your prices a bit then more people will buy!!!

 

economics 101.

Quite right, but I would bet Cha am and Hua Hin sales are booming.

On 12/19/2023 at 9:12 AM, timendres said:

 

Said mental health problem being "Yaba"?

Or the Ukraine front 

13 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Religion has killed more people than anything...

The United States arms manufacturers love religion 

23 hours ago, Liverpool Lou said:

"...short of PAYING THEM to come..."

What? Did the best part of 25 million who have visited this year need any persuading?

Where will this insurance money end up????