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Metapod

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  1. its been no rules weed for over a year and everything is fine. the world didnt explode. maybe it isnt so bad?
  2. no thanks, i'll take lower cost of living and coruption over "clean" energy and public healthcare that I can't access.
  3. People openly smoke cigs and drink alcohol in bars and restaurants where there are children inside. What is the difference?
  4. That isn't how DTA works. If you are a tax resident with assessable income, you are still going to have to file a tax return in thailand. you wil also need to translate and validate swiss documents, so you are going to have to hire an accountant. this can't be a bog standard thai accountant that deals just with thai tax returns. I'm honestly shocked how financially illiterate everyone here is.
  5. fewer and fewer places in the world where you can escape the globalists.
  6. If you stay more than 180 days a year, no. You will be required to fill a yax return and pay tax on any money remitted per the DTA agreements with any other tax jurisdiction you also fall under
  7. No, that isn't how it works. A DTA doesn't make you tac exempt. You still have reporting requirements in 2 places and will need to fill tax returns in Thailand. This means translating documents, hiring an accountant, submitting tax forms every year to RD. Have you read your specific DTAs? Many of them just specify who has first rights to tax, not exclusive taxation rights. In many DTAs you will pay tax in both countries and rhe country with first rights on tax will provide a credit you can apply to the second country to prevent being taxed on the same income twice. If the rates in the second country are different, you pay the difference. Thaikand has much lower income bands than a lot of other countries, so many people will pay twice in both areas. It all depends on the DTAs but regardless, everyone will have a burden of dealing with more paperwork and beauracracy Also a lot of people have income that isn't covered by a DTA
  8. It affects everyone as now all expansion here 180+ will have reporting requirements to the thai tax office. That means hiring an accountant, getting documents translated into thai, more paperwork and hassles, and potentially more tax liability. Nobody is safe from this
  9. It is a remittance and would be assessable income. Transferring money or withdrawing from ATM is essentially the same here.
  10. the current system is fine. they made weed legal and the world didn't fall apart. the less government involved the better.
  11. the competition is what caused thailand to shoot up in the rankings for quality fiber. this is going to stagnate the market with a duopoly forming between AIS vs True
  12. so worldwide taxation, no more pot, and chinese police patrolling soi cowboy this new government is absolute <deleted>e and i'm surely missing Prayut and the old boys club now
  13. a global taxation like the US would be even worse than what is being proposed. thailand had a good system already and its one of the reasons why thailand has a lot of wealthy expats and foreign investment. all of the wealthy expats are gone if they are going to be taxed on worldwide income (me included)
  14. global taxation like the united states? thats even worse.... then i'm 100% gone from thailand. <deleted> that
  15. holding out hope that Thai Elite will be excluded and given preferential treatment like the LTR visas
  16. withdrawing cash from ATM from an overseas bank while in Thailand is still a remittance and liable for tax.
  17. they did a great job with sukhumvit sidewalk. so many bitter negative old <deleted> on this forum
  18. So from all of this, my take away for my situation is to simply remit less money into Thailand and pay tax on what I remit. I had planned to make some more investments here but I'll be parking that money abroad and investing outside of Thailand instead. I'll also consider any large purchases or plans domestically as well if it will cost me an additional 30% to do it locally. I travel abroad frequently, so I'll do my major shopping in other countries and things like elective surgury for LASIK etc will just be done elsewhere.
  19. not just the truckers. they also shut down bank accounts for those who donated money to the protest. i agree, the future is <deleted> and the idiots will sell their own future away for 10,000 thb and be none the wiser.
  20. I prefer the 2am closing time. I'll tell you why 1. It encourages people to get started and go out earlier. It's easy to go from dinner to party. In the west, so many young people stay home until midnight to pregame as "it's dead until midnjght" 2. A good short time is better than a long ebb/flow. I like knowing 10pm to 2am is going to be a solid party block and what I'm in for. It's only on rare occasions I want to party until the sun comes up as it <deleted> up your next day 3. If everything shuts at 2am, it gets the girls out of the bars and into your bedroom faster Less dancing, more <deleted>
  21. It's got nothing to do with security, it's a mental health issue. Honestly, freedom means you also need to accept some risks and <deleted>ty things go happen. You can't solve this by turning into a police state. People still get attacked and killed in prisons.
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