Dogmatix

No. They didn't vote for this criminal's party and his clown of a nominee PM in pink socks.. They voted for some one else to be PM.

So Thaksin had acupuncture. Love Ung Ing's tiara. It really suits her.

A peculiar comment by Anutin. It does sound as you say that Anutin is trying to make out that Chada accepted a large dowry from the suspect with no idea that he was a criminal and he was receiving ill gotten gains. But if, as is likely, it was a very substantial dowry, Chada must have had his suspicions about how a lowly local mayor could have acquired it.

This was a big raid on 8 different locations with several high level cops and officials from the PACC which deals with public sector corruption. It must have been sanctioned from the top of the police force. Thaksin was obviously not happy at having to give up the interior ministry to BJP as Anutin's price for supporting Srettha as PM but had no choice. Thaksin is an ex-cop and has always promoted police interests above other agencies. Anutin and Chada have already got above themselves usurping police powers, as in the raid on a Patum Thani pub without any police involved and drawing up death lists of local kamnans etc. This looks a bit like a power struggle to stop Anutin and Chada off police patches. A bit loss of face for them that mafia local officials are lurking in Chada's own family when he is claiming to go to war with them but, of course, keeping all the details secret which is highly suspicious. If the Interior Ministry has information of criminal activities amongst local officials appointed by the ministry itself, it should provide all the information to police and conduct an internal investigate as who in the ministry appointed all of these criminals and why.

If you google Chada you will find a lot of unsavory cases he has been implicated in in the past, including murder, drug and firearms offences. He has always managed to walk for lack of evidence. One of his sons was killed in a road rage incident when two of his sons allegedly opened fire on another driver who unexpectedly returned fire and killed the son. Chada's parents and his brother were all murdered in gangland style assassinations.

But what if the are actually proposing to amend other parts of the constitution?

The purpose of a DTA is to prevent double taxation. That can be interpreted as we tax this and you don't touch it, or it can be that you tax it first and and, if our tax rate is more, we'll take the difference. The latter is what happens to Americans working overseas. If the US tax rate is more, Uncle Sam will have the difference. So why not Thailand?

The new remittance tax will be great for these therapists.

During the attack, the owner of the department store, which sold gold, picked up a 20 kg explosive device and threw it into a tank after it was placed against the front door of the premises. This is complete nonsense probably translated by a moron with hardly any knowledge of English and tidied up a subeditor with no knowledge of Thai. If you at Thai media accounts of this, you will see that that they the attack took place after 1.00 a.m. when the owner wasn't around. The bandits had made a bomb out of a fire extinguisher. There was no tank.

Nothing to do with this pathological liar is believable, except that he was guilty of corruption, as charged, despite his protestations of innocence before he was forced to admit to his crimes and express remorse for the thefts to qualify for a Royal pardon.

"May be taxed in the contracting state where the property is located" does not mean taxing the income in Thailand is prohibited in Thailand. That would only be the case, if the wording were "....shall be taxed in the contracting state where the property is located." That allows Thailand to choose between: not taxing it at all; allowing a tax credit and collecting the difference between Thai and UK tax, if Thai tax is higher; and charging full Thai tax and giving a Thai tax credit. The RD has already suggested it would allow tax credits. The UK DTA is very clear in saying that only civil service and local government service pensions shall only be taxed in the UK. The state pension is not covered by this.

It was not from an advisory board. It was from the director-general of the RD.

I am not sure it matters whether the recipient Thai bank labels an inbound remittance as income or something else. That is an internal matter for the bank. The RD expects tax residents to declare income by themselves. They may get details of remittances from banks but I think the bank description of income probably just means inflow. If it is over 50 USD or used to be that much, the bank has to ask you for the purpose, but not the source, and report to the BoT (not the RD). The choices for foreigners are I think living expenses, purchase of condo etc. I was told by the bank officer that loan was not acceptable for foreigners but OK for Thais. If under that amount, it seems to just slide straight into your bank acount with no questions asked. Of course it will be very easy for the RD to get details of all remittances to individual accounts.

But the Prayut govt, despite cosying up to China couldn't agree terms on the railway because China was far too greedy, treating Thailand like a desperate African country and wanting control of everything, including land alongside the rail tracks.

Hit the nail on the head. Thais don't care because they have no idea who the sod is.

No it sounds like a lot of details are BS. Scanasia articles are usually low quality and probably should waste our time with them on AN.

If the British partner agreed he could forge his signature, why didn't he sign himself? Anyway it sounds as if the business was going to go bust anyway. So the British partner would have lost everything. Now he is trying to get 17 million from this couple.

I guess they won't release them unless they get a chance to exchange them for many more Palestinian prisoners held by the Israelis, as in the past. But Israelis with family members taken hostage are angry that the Netanyahu government is showing signs of being less concerned about recovering hostages than in the past in their determination to get Hamas whatever the cost in Palestinian and Israeli lives.

Anutin seems very happy with the interior ministry now. I don't think he would want to give that up.

Don’t forget Mohammed Bone Saw.

I think the Potjaman case may be misleading, as I seem to recall it was about whether a taxable unrealized capital gain had arisen on SHIN shares transferred to her brother without putting the trade through the SET which would have made it tax exempt. Thai tax case law makes clear that such unrealized gains are taxable, as in the case of grants of shares or options given to employees of listed firms. The case of Thaksin’s children who received an off market transfer of SHIN shares in Singapore was similar. In a surprising flip flop ruling months before the May 2023 election the Supreme Court reversed the rulings of the first two courts and returned 17 billion in tax to Thaksin arguing that transfer of shares to the children never really happened as the children were Thaksin’s nominees. It is unusual for Thai courts to take a sunbstance over form view that favours tax avoiders but Thaksin got 17 billion for the PT election campaign and delivered admirably in return in terms of maintaining the elite in power and joining it. I can’t remember exactly the logic used to overturn Potjaman’s conviction (or why her brother’s wasn’t) but the cases against her and the children looked absolutely water tight with many precedents supporting the convictions.

The Mazars piece didn't mention anything about the impact on expats remitting money to buy condos which I would think will be extremely negative for developers and the economy as well as the RD which will miss on transfer tax and land tax. Not a peep out of any of the developers either.

You asked for evidence that, in cases where the Thai tax is greater on foreign sourced income, the taxpayer will have to pay the difference. Here is a ruling from the RD in a 2004 case relating to double taxation of individuals that embodies this principle. https://www.rd.go.th/24356.html

Warong is the former Democrat MP who relentlessly probed Yingluck's rice pledging scam and eventually uncovered enough sleaze to put a number of Thaksin lackeys in jail. Go for it.

No worries about the lack of zero dollar tours. This big spender is on his way to Phuket and he is worth more than thousands of the low end Chinese tourists the Thai government grovels after so pathetically. A real he-man too. He can take out an apartment block or a maternity hospital faster than you can say Slava Ukraini!