Dogmatix

That is true. Foreign residents, including temporary residents, in Western countries usually get those benefits, except in the US which has no universal healthcare for its own citizens (spends the money on export of war, death and destruction instead). In the UK the only thing most foreigners living there, whether on settlement visas or not, don't get if the vote which, considering the quality of politicians doesn't matter much. Some even do get the vote, including the Irish and citizens of Commonwealth countries and the latter don't reciprocate. Labour likes this because most of the foreigners vote for them.

Something lost in translation. They meant tax residents, i.e. those spending at least 180 days or partial days in the Kingdom in a calendar/tax year. The Revenue Code is nationality neutral. Nothing in it distinguishes Thai citizens or PRs from anyone else.

If your tax rate on your global income is higher in Thailand, you will have to pay on the difference in Thailand. If you can't present evidence of tax credits in a form acceptable to the RD or the difference in tax years means it is not available yet, you will have to pay Thai tax on the entire amount and claim tax credits from the IRS. It is not as simple as it appears on the face of it.

So why not go back to requiring visas for Thais to save them the time and expense of flying over there, only to be denied entry.

The quote of the RD chief didn't say whether she thought the government agreed with her idea of global tax, which involves legislation, or what year she hoped to introduce it. She said the amendment was being drafted but amending Section 41 to cover global income would only take about 5 minutes. Probably a lot of politicians have corruption money salted away in offshore accounts and might not like the idea. Theoretically they would get rid of last year's reinterpretation that made remittances taxable, if the income was earned prior to 2024, as the two systems are contradictory. They can't tax income earned abroad and then tax it again on remittance. But cancelling the remittance tax complete would give a free pass to income earned abroad from 1 Jan 2024 till whenever the start date for global tax might be. They might include a transitory provision to tax that income on remittance. It still leaves a gaping loophole for wealthy Thais like Thaksin who can use family offices to manage their wealth offshore or at least an offshore corporate structure. Any income earned in the corporate would only taxable in Thailand, if the Thai resident beneficiary took a dividend from the company. Overwise as income and capital gains just accumulate in the offshore company. This is obviously grossly unfair to less wealthy Thai residents who can't afford oversas corporate structures but I can't see people like Thaksin wanting to have the corporate veil lifted to tax the Thai corporate owners. They can also set up offshore loans if they want to transfer cash to Thailand tax free instead of taking Thai taxable dividends.

They can force Lazada and Shopee to add VAT to stuff ordered from their Thai websites but shipped from China but I don't see how they can do that to overseas vendors, such as Aliexpress and Temu. They said somewhere they will have to register a presence in Thailand too but there again, I don't see how to force that. Thailand doesn't have extraterritorial jurisdiction in China. All it could do to enforce this, if foreign vendors don't comply, is to ask the foreign government to pass a law obliging firms to register for VAT in Thailand, if they export there. They still have the ability to tax the goods when they arrive in Thailand but that would involve opening everything to check whether VAT charged or not.

This case is obviously past now but here is a case of a school suing a father for withholding fees from an international school. https://tismonitor.com/general-news/father-sued-by-international-school-after-protesting-fee-hike I have been involved in a number of lawsuits in Thailand, usually to do with land, not schools. But what seems common to all civil cases is that the judges always order the parties to attempt mediation in the court house to avoid the case going to trial, just as in the article. So if a teacher were sued for breach of contract, I imagine the same thing would happen and that the teacher could offer to split the difference on the amount demanded by the school.

Keep the lawsuits coming. There will be one about Thaksin exercise power over PT as a non-member. There should be one about appointing totally unqualified people as ministers to be nominees of people who failed to pass the ethical screening, e.g. Thammanart's brother and Chada's daughter. If is would have been an offence to appoint those unethical characters, surely it is also an offence to let they assign nominees, so they are still actually exercising power as ministers.

Yes ceasing to exist as a legal entity but not wiping its people off the map. Rather, they want to incorporate Jews in a Palestinian state with the same rights as Muslims and Christians which was exactly what the British government planned for Israel which was not an unreasonable concept, given that Jews were in the minority. That didn't happen because Jewish terror gangs like the Irgun, Stern gang, Lehi gang and Haganah rampaged Palestine massacring and raping Arabs and forcing them from their homes. You can read about this in the archives opened by the Israeli government in 1990s but suddenly snapped shut again. It is a state founded on terrorism. So it is not surprising that the indigenous people it displaced will fight back using exactly the same tactics Israelis used to get their land from them and form their state. The Israelis claim to be the only democracy in the Middle East. So why don't they make that a reality by annexing the West Bank and make it a part of Israel, abolishing the apartheid system with Muslims and Christians having equal rights with Jews? Then there will be no need for any more war.

Israel is now displaying its own genocidal tendencies following Hamas's deplorable war crimes on Oct 7. Two wrongs don't make a right. I think Hamas and Hezbollah want a unified state that gives equal rights to Jews, Muslims, Christians, Zorastrians, agnostics, atheists, rather than an ethnocentric state. That is actually what Britain also had in mind for a post-independence Palestinian state from the late 30s. But the reign of terror from the Jewish terrorist gangs made the British cut and run and abandon the country to an orgy of violence resulting in the creation of Israel and nothing for the Arabs. The British did the same thing in India, leaving Hindus and Muslims to massacre each other forced millions from their homes.

They need to investigate the luxury services provided to an inmate with a square face in Bangkok

Absolutely. The drive to Korat is a stressful 4 hours or so on a very dangerous road with regular fatal accidents.

That's right. There were before and after aerial photos of the land he acquired for a housing development by the sea. I seem to recall. Looked pretty obvious that he had encroached on national forest reserve land. Getting his acquittal and silencing the land encroachment charges must have cost him a pretty penny. Now only the cost of the visa to go. Actually I think the visa revocation is the only thing that was unfair, as they didn't wait for his court case. But Anutin saw a big grandstanding opportunity to capitalise on racist anti farang sentiment. He and the Swiss guy and Thai wife are all disgusting.

50 years but subject to reduction under Royal Pardons.

This was the police chief who was trading billions in private placements on the SET while he was police chief. Said it was just a sideline and that he was a natural stock picker. Others alleged threatening people showed up at companies and pressured them to do private placement and allocated free shares priced below market. They were all small cap stocks with moribund businesses and low liquidity and easy to manipulate. Some good news about the company was always announced just before the PPs to make share prices spike up on higher volume before collapsing. In the parlance known as a pump and dump.

I am sure he purchased a number of foreign passports like Thaksin and Yingluck.

Thammanart will have to make his brother a nominee minister, if he is offered anything due to the new found concern about ministers' ethical backgrounds.

It's well known that the Thai penalty for smuggling illegal drugs to Australian is to have do several years social service as a cabinet minister and make a large amount of money in the process.

Called a fat tailed risk statistically speaking. Risk of JE is probably very low but with catastrophic results, if you get your bet wrong. Get the vaccine. It is safe, effective and inexpensive.

Having lived in both rented and owned accommodation I found it very frustrating that the owner of my apartment, who was from a very wealthy family that owned a bank, would always nickel and dime over renovations and repairs. Once I claimed the aircon in the living had become very noisy and didn't cool enough, even after servicing. The manager put in my request for a replacement and he came back about a week later saying it still had plenty of useful live left in it. A few days later it blow up with a low explosion that left water and mess in the living room and couldn't be repaired. Since living in my own property, I can repair or replace anything I like but the frustrating thing is that I have to pay for it myself.

Best thing is to buy a pricy infinity pool villa and put it in the name of your girlfriend you met in a bar or in the name of someone trustworthy recommended by the real estate agent or your Thai lawyer.

This was promised in the election campaign to be digital money for everyone over 16. Then after the election is was reduced to being a means tested digital scheme. Now it is reduced further to be an even more strictly means tested cash hand out scheme only to 15 million people with welfare cards. after several million people already registered for the digital scheme and are now at risk of identity theft but won't receive any money. A lot of poor Thais borrowed from loan sharks to but smart phones to register in the digital scheme and may now receive not even the cost of the low end smart phones. This scheme is now unrecognisable as the fulfillment of the electoral pledge and doesn't sound like something that will appease most of the people who voted for PT.

Although Big Joke was allegedly elevated by Prawit to be his bagman, one has to bear in mind that his initial advancement in the police was due to the fact that his father, a sergeant, was police driver to Potjaman's father. Therefore he has a foot in both camps and Thaksin may find it useful to have him as police chief.

Hopefully allowing Thaksin's interference will be found unethical and Ung Ing will get the boot. The knives are out for her and I am sure lawyers will be looking at every angle they can use to get rid of her. Due to his arrogance Thaksin will probably jump into another trap with her like he did with Srettha. He might also have to flee the country again, if his LM case doesn't go his way next year.

Hideous looking "Louis" type furniture consistent with Thaksin's ghastly chinois nouveau rich tastes.