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On 12/26/2019 at 11:48 PM, Bredbury Blue said:

Doing that to your own son it's  only a bloody game lad. 

I know you are obsessed with united maybe ruined your life no wonder you are so bitter. 

12 hours ago, jellydog said:

James and Williams both so talented but both find it hard to get through a match without ridiculous dives. Crazy baby, just crazy.

Come off it Burnley was fouling them both all game only way to stop them,  And Merseyside Mike was letting them get away with it,  Even booked Williams for getting tackled. 

Williams had a cracking game and a excellent  young talent I have mated who know his Dad a big red family and his Dad is over the moon seeing his son play for United. 

Thanks Rick not been on here in awhile seasons greeting to all. 

21 hours ago, PatOngo said:

Would it not be better spent on food or clearing their debt?

I find that Thais live for the day and spend with the same attitude, Putting money aside for a rainy day or forthcoming  debt to pay is looked on in disdain when I suggest this. 

The article  is misleading it makes out it is a rise in spending and the article states otherwise. 

1 hour ago, Assurancetourix said:

floods the market?

not that much because a good part of the vehicles bought were very quickly taken back by the banks.
buyers who cannot afford to reimburse their credits even when they have been made over 8 years!
And then 100,000 baht was on the sedans; for a pickup it was only 30,000 baht.

If it can clean up the second-hand market a bit, it's very good because when you see the asking price for a vehicle that is sometimes more than ten years old, Thai people really work on their heads!

Yes indeed I bought a Honda City and put in my wife's name,  Exactly 1 year later 100,000 was given back and the wife gave that to me to cover my deposit. 

Not bad a top model city cost 704,000 on the road so basically cost us 604,000.

8 minutes ago, alant said:

What a scheme, amazed it wasn't done before????

They have done it before but on cars, I got 100,000baht back when I bought my car 7 years ago. 

So there it is pegging the baht so it doesn't surge above 30 baht/dollar to help the farmers, All good for the faming community  but is it good for the Thai economy. 

Good work again by the police.

59 minutes ago, moojar said:

I believe they add up all the odd months to count towards your 35 years, maybe even weeks.  At least that is what they told me - I enquired for my wife and CL told me any time she has spent out of Australia is deducted, even for holidays.  I had asked something like "We visit Thailand almost every year during our annual leave, and she has been twice by herself for several months at a time. Does that time get taken away from the total?"  

 

Seemed a bit mean-spirited to me - my wife is an Australian Citizen, surely overseas holidays are allowed.  But in your case it may work in your favour if the holidays you have had in Oz count towards your 35 years.

Nice to hear that mate, Years ago I used to work two or three months then one month Thailand I did this for around 8 years and as you say it would be mean spirited if they took those 1 months hols of my total.

My wife understands my need to go back and get as many months in over the next 5 years before retirement, To be truthful it's good I can get some money coming in as 20baht to the dollar hurts.

32 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

For what it's worth, I have read somewhere in the legislation that its 6 months of a financial year, so that might be the key, i.e. be in Australia from say 1 July to 31 December if that makes the 183 days required a year to retain your residency status, or 1 January to 30 June.

 

If you retain your residency status, they cannot argue so if your lodging tax returns, make sure you tick the box Australian resident for tax purposes as opposed to non-resident for tax purposes.

Yes my accountant always ticks that box and even when I don't go back he does my accounts. 

Cheers mate. 

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

They are linked to immigration or border control, so when they make a search to see how many times you have been out and back into the country, they will know.

 

Keep it simple, and don't lie because if it backfires and it will as they become more and more sophisticated with technology, you could be knocked back.

 

The way I see it you have 31 years of the 35 required for the full pension that is you will receive 31/35 or 88.5% of the pension if you are a single bloke, now if you go back 2 years prior to the OAP age that will be 33 years or 33/35 or 94% of the OAP, and then you can go back to Thailand as it will be portable as you would have done your time for it to be made portable.

Thanks I will tell the truth and my plan is over the 5 years before I get the pension I will try to spend over 6 months each year to go in my favor,  what I want to find is 6 months or over a year added on to the 35 years or counts as half a year, Take into account I will be doing 2 or 3 months work 1 month in Thailand. 

1 hour ago, 4MyEgo said:

35 years is the total time you lived in Australia, not worked, so say for example you lived in Australia from 16 to 51 years of age, you qualify. 

I moved from England in 1980 aged 22, I am 61 now so I will qualify but I have lived on off in Thailand for the past 8 years. 

I go back once a year and work 3 months and was wondering if they will count the last 8 years?. 

I do keep a home address in Oz at my daughters and never told them that I live overseas. 

8 minutes ago, Pattaya46 said:

Come back ??

To come back they would have to leave first,

and I see no reason why this should happen...??

Many have already left and not just from Pattaya up here in Khonkaen I know a lot who have left in the past year. 

I am leaving end of the month but this is more to do with Australian  pension requirements. 

2 hours ago, 4MyEgo said:

So here's a thought and some questions that go with it.

 

Thinking of returning to Australia a couple of years before the OAP age and I purchased a property as my principal place of residence with the money I have invested.

 

1) Would I qualify as opposed to having the OAP reduced if I left my money in investments

 

2) Does the pension get reduced because I have a Thai wife who is younger than me, i.e. if memory serves me correct from what I have read on TVF, they will give me the marriage pension halved or a single pension which is reduced to 80% not sure which one it is ?

Good question  that about Thai wife, how much is it reduced. 

I am going back end of the month to live and only have holidays here for my last 5 years before pension,  Main reason I want to make sure I have the 35 years for a full pension. 

What constitutes a full year towards the 35 years? 

Well well well blow me down with a feather I was not expecting that. 

Money talks,  We should just empty all the jails and put ankle tags on them all. 

7 minutes ago, DannyCarlton said:

This is a vote to decide who runs the country for the next 5 years. Do you really want that to be Johnson?

 

BTW. A large majority of United supporters voted remain. City supporters voted Brexit. A wolf in sheeps clothing?

It's got nothing to do with football mate, And I don't vote for any now as I am an Ozzie citizen.