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because Starbucks doesn't sell tea.

I don't suppose this bothers them, if it did they would just kick a few pesky foreign NGO's out.

I just sent some money to BBK, wise says they took 12 seconds to send it to my account. I'll go at 3 pm.

The money can arrive in the morning but BBK doesn't book it on to your account until 3 pm.

Something I hadn't considered but even so wont those selling for medicinal purposes be affected?

Indeed this should be a matter of concern, regardless of ones opinion on the matter of allowing the legal sale of cannabis. These business owners relied on the governments decision and invested money to set up shop, plantations, business connections etc, now to have these investments wiped out is unfair and morally wrong, it undermines confidence in future government decisions if one can't rely on the stability of the law. They must be reimbursed or face being sued.

Not a man to be trifled with.

So flying to the US every 2 years is without cost?

That is an assumption on your part.

correct

close enough

How deep is this hole going to be?

He sounds like a wannabe special agent.....you can't stand the truth....he ordered a code red and now he's a retiree.

He probably went blind.....the mind knows how to protect itself.

couldn't find work after his parents died......something to do with his criminal record and not looking for work.

The motorbike rider may also have had a little alcohol himself as well....unless he was returning home at speed from the night shift. Nothing good happens in bars in the early morning hours...or afterwards. On Koh Samui many years ago I was sitting on the beach next to a Swedish family, parents, uncles and aunts all totally pissed from the night before flat out in the sand while their 3 year old daughter was in the sea getting knocked about by the waves. I took her out of the sea and kept her near me playing with her for 3 hours before the grandparents arrived, after I had explained why I was with their grand daughter an almighty row blew up as they laid into the parents who were barely able to conceive of what was going on. I had tried to wake them after seeing the danger their child was in and received abuse before they fell asleep again. The grandparents thanked me and left taking the little girl with them.

76 years old, early hours of the morning, crossing the road after leaving a bar, experience tells me he wasn't out trying to watch the sunrise. The older you are the easier it is to get drunk on just a few beers, only 2 days in Thailand, so jet lag and the unaccustomed humidity and temperature plus alcohol tells me he probably wasn't sober.

especially when pi$$ed.

That was just a hypothetical but I can imagine them deducting the maximum amount if you don't hand in a tax return and you can then do a run around trying to prove your deductibles and then wait a year to have the excess returned. I agree with the lack of competence although they may surprise us later in that respect, money can make a Thai very competent. I intend to act fully compliant with this tax law for this year to see how much it really costs me, if it's too much then I will only declare the 65K a month which is required by IO and the rest I will withdraw with the ATM. Having said that it will be of no use if they really go ahead with taxing your world wide income, that would raise my tax debt from my calculated 27k to 38k a year. Once the tax office gets enthusiastic they are like wolves ripping open a carcass.

I've got to be somewhere, it might as well be here.

If you don't have an income of at least 65K Baht monthly then you shouldn't be here.

I detect a certain admiration for such escapades in the OP's post, he's just too scared to join in.

These idiots are amazing, they just can't help themselves,......do something illegal, put it on facebook with a mugshot and while you're about it insult the police, what could go wrong?

Your words in god's ear.

Don't underestimate any tax office, they are patient. Taxation possibilities are easy for the state, they just give the order for the technological responsibility to a third party, for instance, your ATM withdrawal could be taxed at source at the ATM, a foreign credit or debit card usage would be the trigger for the banks computer to deduct the tax from the payout once the computer connects with the IO to ascertain that you are a tax resident, it would be the banks responsibility to ensure this, no cost to the state. Modern technology, AI? wouldn't need more personnel, its impersonal you would have to do the running around to get your deductions recognized if you don't turn in a tax form. I've had dealings with British and German tax officials, they are like a dog with a bone regarding their paragraphs but on a personal level they just don't care.