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43 minutes ago, Muhendis said:

You are indeed quite right, however, my line of thinking was that if I failed to comply with a court order, I would probably be in contempt of court.

What would happen if the prime minister failed to comply. Would he have to go to prison?

Thaksin was sentenced because of abuse of (economioc) power. A money problem.

If Shretta and his minions are not able of reducing the smoke - not by words but in  fact -  he, too, should be sentenced. The reason for this fine should not be the money, but the danger for the health of millions of people.

Here in Pang Mapha, Mae Hong Son Province, there is no smoke visible - at the moment. Clear blue sky, and I can see the mountains smoke free.

But this is normal here at this time of the year. In the past, the smoke started not before the middle of February, in the last years not before middle or to the end of March. And at the end of April, the air started to be clean again.

Last year I booked aleady in January a ticket to Hua Hin to escape the smoke season - as usually. The ticket was for March 21, and exactly 1 day before the smoke expandet here in our valley. This year we will leave on 23/3 to Hua Hin. Hopefully at the right time.

I'm very curious, if the smoke will be stopped or NOT. Then the time in  Hua hin will be a "smoke free time" or a "holiday".

On 1/18/2024 at 8:44 AM, retarius said:

Yet another totally unwarranted intrusion into the lives of ex-pats living in Thailand. Has there been an incident where using a passport, instead of a driving license say, would prevent a hi-jacking or a Thai 9/11. Maybe someone could enlighten me, because I haven't seen or read about such an incident. 

Another minor inconvenience, own top of all the bureaucratic nonsense and paperwork. 

It would be very useful to sort out the foreign criminals  - maybe!

Yes, you can read it on fake-book

This stupid action is wasting the air/environment, tax money and going to waste the children !

If you have to pay the dental service in Thailand by yourself, you are staying in BANGKOK and you have to pay a high price for your dental treatment, think about going/flying to Chiang Mai. There are a lot of excellent dentists and invoices are cheaper than those for the same treatment in BKK. Maybe both together, treatment and return ticket to BKK, are cheaper than the service in BKK.

Especially the (private) Sripat (University) dental clinic has excellent dentists at reasonalble prices for the treatment.

I'm very happy that we can now  fly from CNX to Hua Hin Airport, without a stop in BKK ! And vice versa.

Of course, there could be more direct flights from everywhere in Thailand to this city.

But this would be one side of the coin. The other one, the dark side is:  noise and polliution. If there would be i.e.  20 flights on one day  or more in and out of HH, I would consider having my northern "smoke-holiday" not in Hua Hin.

Introducing the planed new Thai tax system for foreigners is like pissing in their own trowsers! Why? There are many many reasons, Therefore I cannot mention all here, but some.

1. Every country has its own tax system. Different rules, different allowences, different tax laws concerning „income“ etc. Are all the Thai tax offices able to read and understand the American, Britisch, Irish, French, Italian, Chinese, Russian Australian, Indian, German, Dutch tax laws, to name only a few countries?

2. They want to tax all the money which is transfered to Thailand, although there are many DTAs (Double Tax Agreements). Do they want to change the DTAs?

3. To work with ALL the foreign tax laws it is necessary to understand all the foreign tax laws, I guess a very, very difficult problem for all the Tai tax offices!

4. If they want to tax the incoming money they have to compare the taxes between the 2 concerned states and tax it „only“, if the Thai tax would be higher than the „falang tax“.

5. To compare the tax rates of the concerned countries, i.e. US and Thai, they must or should understand all the details/differernces of the 2 states. Nearly impossible, even for the high ranking experts in the Finanial Ministry. I guess.

6. Every tax law uses special juristic terms, hard to understand in other/different languages.

7. Which documents would they ask for without violating falang laws.?

Only one example.

If I would transfer 2.000 Euros to Thailand, how to compare the tax rates (=which is higher). Would they compare the Tax rates by implementing the Thai allowences with free alowences of my German tax (althoug my German „income“ would be higher and therefore the taxing rate?

Neerly impossible for all the many Thai tax officers. An what about the paper work?

It seems you missed the Mae Hong Son Province. But it's not for party lovers.

On 12/8/2023 at 10:53 AM, 10000Baht said:

 

I agree 100% and this is the official paper in the Royal Gazette from June 16th 2020!

Royal Gazette June 16th 2020.pdf 321.61 kB · 22 downloads

@whophant should print this and show it to the incompetent IMO in CM.

Only one problem here in Thailand: losing face seems more important than the laws or official orders. Very sad. I'm lucky, never had a such a problem with my Mae Hong Son Immi.

How to increase IQ in Thailand?

 Very easy:

by IQ-implants !

Go to Dr. Supon in the MEDICINE Department of the Sripat Hospital in CM.

On 11/8/2023 at 2:36 PM, Sparkles said:

Stayed twice in the last 2 months at a hotel in Hua Hin. Using only Thai wife's ID when signing in was not acceptable.        I had to present my passport. They now report every single person staying following a visit from the local Immigration a few months ago. Previously was never a problem at the same hotel using wife's ID but is now which means you are wise to submit TM 30 on return. 

Result:

When you check-in, ask the person at the desk, if they report YOUR staying in the hotel. If Yes, you should do it (TM30).

TiT, Thailands bureaucrazy at its best !

And, @silverhawk_usa + @Sparkles , thank you for your information/experience.

Srettha - as usual not at home .

Why does the Thai government not call the Chinese embassador in to "tell" him, how to behave .... and not like a reprentative of a dictorship? Otherwise they would send him home to Peking.

8 hours ago, Berkshire said:

Yeap, that would be my solution and would almost eliminate the problem over night.  Unfortunately, many of these landowners (sometimes corporations) are rather powerful, influential people.  Public shaming might help. 

In general one way to solve problem.

But in our Ampoe (of the Mae Hong Son province) it wouldn't work. The reason: fires in  the woods which are not easly accessible in the mountaines.

I think education - already in schools -is the most effective way to solve the smoke problem.  It would take some time, of course. It worked for me in our school concerning putting the waste in waste boxes and not on the street or anywhere around, many many years ago.

When going around in Thailand, let your wife check-in. Problem solved!

We all have our experience how many, many immigration office(r)s have „their own interpretation of the immigratioon laws or decrees.“ And now the more complicated tax-laws?

The tax laws are much, much more complicated than the immigration laws. Now the Thai tax offices should be able to read and understand all the DTAs (double tax agreements) of more than 60 states –

We all have our experience how many, many immigration office(r)s have „their own interpretation of the immigratioon laws or decrees.“ And now the more complicated tax-laws?

The tax laws are much, much more complicated than the immigration laws. Now the Thai tax offices should be able to read and understand all the DTAs (double tax agreements) of more than 60 states – hahahaha. If you and the Thai government believe, that the tax officers could deal with these complicates „falang §§s“, than you can also believe that I could walk over the ocean from here in Thailand to San Francisco in the USA without sinking down.

Maybe that's the reason why they say: we tax the money you transfer to Thailand. That means, they must not be able to understand all the falang-Tax-laws. But this solution would exclude the check which tax is higher, the Thai- or the Falang-Tax???

These are only a few reasons, why the Thai government should think about this idiotic new idea to tax as much farangs as possible, without being able to oversee the results of the end of the tax-drama!

When I read here in this thread that the Thai government could solve this problem by nominating another tax expert for the new problem in every province, I nearly died for laughing. 70 erxperts in each big province would nearly not be enough!

 If you and the Thai government believe, that the tax officers could deal with these complicates „falang §§s“, than you can also believe that I could walk over the ocean from here in Thailand to San Francisco in the USA without sinking down.

On 9/29/2023 at 8:58 AM, Danderman123 said:

One major difference between South Asians (Indians) and east Asians (Thai, Chinese, Japanese) comes from when humans traveled from Africa into India, and then into Indochina and China, they encountered Something Else. There were already hominids living in Indochina and China, just not Homo Sapiens. East Asians carry a small genetic reminder of their encounter with these hominids, known as Denisovans, as a result East Asians are distinct from other Homo Sapiens.

 

 

Hmmm ......... Great recording of a picture on a digital camera many thousand years ago 😉.

How much was the license fee?

In general, the Airlines show you where or how you can pay for the ticket. Many times it's possible to use 7/11, BIG C or ..... (cash) over the counter! And cheep fee, too!

Congratulation to Sweden!

100-times better than a jack-in-officve !

On 9/22/2023 at 3:25 PM, SingAPorn said:

Lovely. It will make things easier for the criminal Chinese cyber crime gangs and other credit card skinner gangs or human traficking (prostitution) gangs who would love to expand their business ventures from China.

 

As long as the wealthy pensionners  from decent european countries are harassed with their long stay visa requirements, no need to change.

OMG, only China sends criminals to THAILAND ?

"Pensionnners of decent european countries" are harrassed with ...... "

Oh, I'm so lucky, I never have been "harassed" in Thailand for staying here more than 18 years.

7 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

 

It's called DCC, Dynamic Currency Conversion, and it's a scam.

 

There should be an option to decline DCC and use the standard exchange method, but it might not be so obvious (for obvious reasons).

Exactly! The Thai banks behave like criminals in these cases, they don't show you the (hidden) negative results.

Now I have learnt about the bank robbery. My problem was the new Krungthai Bank ATM in our village. Nearly all comments in Thai language. And of course, they would never explain or show  the disadvantage of the DCC exchange method (in English language). I knew about the DCC-problem, but didn't recognise it.

I saw this in the internet: