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17 hours ago, Excogitator said:

More tax treaties are needed, like the ones Thailand has with the Scandinavian countries, to avoid double taxation.

Thailand already has dual taxation agreements with 60 countries. These agreements differ in their scope and specifics. How Thai  Tax authorities can deal with this remains to be seen.

Australia Austria  Bahrain Bangladesh Belarus  Belgium Bulgaria Canada Chile China Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France
Germany Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Japan Korea Kuwait Lao Luxembourg Malaysia Mauritius Myanmar
Nepal Netherlands New Zealand Norway Oman Pakistan Philippines Poland Portugal Qatar Romania Russia Seychelles Singapore Slovenia
South Africa Spain Sri Lanka Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States (limited treaty) 

Uzbekistan Vietnam

16 hours ago, Robbie2618 said:

I would gather that most expats that have incomes outside of Thailand are not working for a company that's going to report the income to the Thai taxing authority and if your earning wages outside of Thailand then you would very likely have a non-Thai bank account. The only income the Thai authorities would know about is what's in your local bank account that you show on visa renewal. 

Except that Thailand joined the CRS last year (common Reporting Standard)

4 minutes ago, Perhaps2more said:

More like Booking.com was scammed. ~ He was expecting a refund for an Invoice not in his name, no balance shown, no break down price and no number of guests.

From the main story;

( He said: "They told me to send them an invoice and they'd pay it, but then they moved the goalposts about.
"Booking.com kept asking for changes to be made on the invoice before they could payout. The hotel was booked through "my brother" and Booking.com knew this.

"This initial problem with the invoice was 'no balance shown', then it needed a price break down, then it needed to show "the number of guests", then it became an issue about it being in my name, then they promised to solve it if I sent a statement that correlated with the invoice, so I did. 
So I got a friend in Thailand to keep going to the hotel to ask them to change the invoice to send it to Booking.com but every time I did they would say it's not right. )

If it was booked through booking.com they would know what was paid and by whom. If it wasn't why would they pay. Dont believe this story. 

2 minutes ago, Balance said:

My takeaway: I'll never do business with Booking.com again

Nothing wrong with booking.com. The hotel exists and has a room price starting at 1000 baht per night. something wrong with this story, says he booked 59 nights for 13,000 baht

32 minutes ago, animatic said:

17,000 + rental rooms

and this is the best he can do??

 

119,000 baht paid, twice, for long term rental??? And second rental takes all money and then says too much demand??? But holds on to money till forced to return???

Scams all about. Seems like Booking is not running too well. Or getting played by locals 

 

Read earlier posts. The hotel is available on Booking.com at 1000 baht per night, yet this Guy says he paid 229 baht per night. Something wrong with this story.

1 hour ago, eisfeld said:

 

Assessable foreign income was always taxed. What changed is what is considered as assessable.

 

 

Nonsense. After being 180 days in the country doesn't mean that you have to immediately file a tax return.

 

No there is no such requirement and nothing changed in that regard. Some have to some don't. Depends on your assessable income, exemptions and so on. No blanket statement can be made.

 

Lol what?

 

Thailand is not party to the CRS. They do have other information exchange programs though. Also what does it have to do with the recent change which affects money transferred into Thailand? They don't need information from other countries because the money went into... Thailand!

 

 

Unfortunately the post did not help at all to clear up the uncertainty that seems to be common amongst expats at this time. The author seems to be or was the British Consul to Thailand in Pattaya.

Thailand is party to the CRS, they made their first report last year

4 hours ago, mokwit said:

Common Reporting Standard.

 

The Common Reporting Standard (CRS), developed in response to the G20 request and approved by the OECD Council on 15 July 2014, calls on jurisdictions to obtain information from their financial institutions and automatically exchange that information with other jurisdictions on an annual basis.

 

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=Common+Reporting+standard

The US is not a party to the CRS

7 hours ago, Modern Coding said:

Has he caused much bigger troubles back home, so that he prefers to stay in Thai jail??

Maybe he has never seen inside a Thai Jail, thinks it's like a Swiss jail

So simple to deal with the taxi overcharging issue if the will is there. Do as in some other countries. Compulsory notice on the dashboard of taxis saying " NO METER - NO CHARGE" with a phone number to call for assistance. 

8 hours ago, SingAPorn said:

Good luck to tackle the taxi crooks who refuse the meter, just like the tuk tuk mafia who openly racket and overchaerge tourists and locals.

Would be easy if the authorities actually wanted to tackle the problem. Just do what I've seen in other cities. Notice required on all Taxi dashboards saying.  "NO METER - NO CHARGE" With a number to call if any problem.

1 hour ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Obviously all policies vary....   but I think for the most part, people are not covered if they are not licensed (at home).

 

In this case I wonder if there was any 'Scooter vs Motorcycle' wording in the policy.

 

 

I have a current Travel Insurance Policy for an upcoming trip.... 

The Policy is 117 pages long...

 

The Policy is confusing.

It states I cannot ride a motorcycle without a home license.

It also states in a separate section, Scooter / Motorcycle  >> There's a Special Exclusion (V)... 

 

I can't find a Special Exclusion's section in the Policy... I cant see anything about size of engine that indicates scooter or motorcycle.

 

My takeaway of course is that I'm not insured at all to ride a Motorcycle in Thailand unless I have a home license.

 

(I do actually have a Thai Motorcycle license, but thats irrelevant, this insurance is for overseas and I wont be using a motorcycle).

 

 

My point here - is did the girl really believe she was insured to ride a 'scooter' in Thailand without a license ?

 

Is there any policy wording here that dictates this ?

 

Or did she rent a motorcycle / scooter without any consideration to insurance ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

No mention of a license in the article but for a tourist to drive any vehicle legally in Thailand you need a license from your home country and an international driving permit from that country. I believe most tourists don't have both and bike renters will be unlikely to tell you this legal requirement. Insurers will insist that you must be driving legally otherwise they may not pay out.

44 minutes ago, jvs said:

Don't you think they should stop and fine the driver of this vehicle?Fuel pump a very extra turns so they look cool?

44 minutes ago, jvs said:

Don't you think they should stop and fine the driver of this vehicle?Fuel pump a very extra turns so they look cool?

500 baht fine, a wai and on your way!

Sonthi Kotchawat, an independent expert on the environment, has criticized the bills’ content, saying they mostly repeat existing laws on air pollution. He says the solution lies not in passing new laws but in ensuring proper enforcement of the laws already enacted.

At least there's one guy with a functioning brain!

5 minutes ago, hotchilli said:

Go on their way where????

To wherever they are accepted outside of Russia.

What's a Buffalo Bear?  Don't think there's such a species. This is a black bear I think, indigenous to Thailand.

You don't need all this nonsense. Just pass a freedom of information bill and see that it's upheld. But I won't be holding my breath

I've done my 90-day reporting online for over 3 years without problems. I logged in to the site today to check on any changes. There aren't any changes to the site so I don't know what this is all about.

9 hours ago, webfact said:

I've done my 90 days online for 3 years without problems. I don't know what this is all about, I just logged in and the site seems to be the same as it's always been. The problems I hear from others always seem to be when trying to report using their phone, either Android or Apple.  I've never had a problem using my laptop with Windows 10/11

 

 

 

 

6 hours ago, ezzra said:

Mercenaries ? and Thai Mercenaries at that? what a wild imaginations, the IDF is doing good enough job without the need of any ' Mercenaries ' to help it, and i doubt it very much that even half Thai are serving in the army other than the very odd one...

They wouldn't be mercenaries, they are Israeli citizens with Israeli passports and can be called up for military service.