alanrchase

I mentioned Brits because the OP is about Brits. CRS compliance will affect all tax resident expats whose home countries are signatories. I agree with you on government overreach as well but my bank does not impose any regulations on me other that those needed to comply with that government overreach.

I have no issues with my big bank. The issues are all due to government regulations imposed on that big bank. These new issues are all due to CRS compliance, nothing to do with the banks. Brits that used to chuckle at US citizens and the way they were treated by the IRS are now going to have to swallow the same medicine.

IQ is not a measure of intelligence it is a measure of how good you are at IQ tests. How do you measure intelligence? Is someone who can speak ten languages more intelligent than a rocket scientist who can only speak one? My 16 year old nephew is more intelligent than JP when it comes to fishing in the local river.

Pensions are income.

My take on it is that the only thing that is changing is that money bought into Thailand by a person who is here long enough each year to be considered tax resident will have to be declared on a yearly tax form. If it is declared as income it will be liable for tax, if it is declared as savings it won't.

I wouldn't be too quick to have a go at a homeless person. Who knows what has happened in their life? Plenty of homeless vets in the US. Should they be chastised for poor decisions without any knowledge of what has happened in their lives? The world is full of decent people who are one misfortune away from being homeless.

FIFO Fit in or f off.

I've seen cats pop out from underneath the shelves in several supermarkets. At least these animals will be restrained.

My understanding is that each time you enter during the one year validity period of the visa you will get 90 days. If you enter with one day left you will get 90 days. I don't see why you wouldn't be allowed to extend that 90 day permission to stay for another 60 days. Hopefully one of the visa experts on the forum will post soon to confirm whether that is true.

I was under the impression that as long as you returned to Thailand before the visa expired you would get another 90 day permission to stay. I thought the idea with these visas was to time it to return the day before they expired to get a total of 15 months from each visa?

I would be wary about taking the advise that providing a false address is not illegal. Technically it is fraud by misrepresentation. A bank would probably take no action other than to cease doing business with you. The NHS, on the other hand, may view it as you receiving a financial gain if you are non resident and treat it more seriously.

Come on then, let us know which UK bank will give you 7% on the equivalent of 800,000 baht? I've had a look around and the best I have seen is 5.6%. My bank will do 5.5% but you need to deposit more than 800,000 baht for a one year fixed term.

I believe Thailand is joining the Common Reporting Standard as of 01 January 2024. This means that a person's financial information will be shared between signatory countries to the system.

That seems to be about income in Thailand which would not be counted as money transferred from abroad.

Nothing to do with the SET. Money from abroad is what is being targeted. If the money from abroad is from CG or dividends then it should be declared as coming from those sources and taxed accordingly. If the money is from an inheritance are Thailand going to ignore their own tax rules for inheritance money and tax it as income?

If the money is from capital gains and dividends theoretically you would pay Thai capital gains and dividend tax on it not income tax. Currently 15% and 10% I believe. A tax form would have to be filled out at some stage declaring where the money came from, it would be fraudulent to state it was income if it came from CG or dividends.

Are you trying to tell us that you are easily led, can't think for yourself and have no self control?

A couple of months ago I had a registered letter take an unusually long time to get to the UK. Tracked as leaving Thailand within three days (posted late on a Friday) then was in the wilderness for 17 days till the tracking logged it as at Heathrow.

Yes, he regales us with his tale of the potent elixir that he has never heard of and his scepticism, his research on the internet and its miracle effects but then refuses to let us know what it was. The more the thread goes on the more it smells of more BS.

They have a small ultrasonic bath with a tube and a thin wand. Low pressure water is pumped from the small bath through the tube and wand into your ear. All I felt was a slow trickle of water from my ear and fragments of wax came out with it. My problem is I get a pellet of impacted wax down by the eardrum. There is no way that is coming out with microsuction.

Turns out that the data they were using was incorrect. https://healthfeedback.org/claimreview/alleged-spikes-in-medical-conditions-military-after-covid-19-vaccine-based-on-faulty-data-thomas-renz/ Back on topic, my son in Bangkok was ill with similar symptoms a few weeks ago. Was tested at the hospital and confirmed as H1N1 flu.

Had similar experiences. One doctor tells you to use oil for a few days then come back for the syringe and another boll@&ks you for using oil.

Bit naughty but I do it myself. Put a drop of mineral oil in the ear every day for four or five days. Use a garden watering head set to the thin single jet of water. Start with low flow and direct into ear from a few cm away. Increase flow as necessary. If I could find a place that used the ultrasonic method I would go there but all I get round here is a nurse with a thin tube trying to suck the wax out which doesn't work.

It seems this is nothing to do with xenophobia or a money grab by the Thai government. The conditions have been forced upon Thailand by your own Western governments imposition of the Common Reporting Standard. Sorry for the long link but couldn't find a quick way to shorten it on Android. https://sherrings.com/common-reporting-standard-crs-tax-laws-thailand.html#:~:text=The Common Reporting Standard&text=It is a standard set,financial information that is exchanged.

I shall be declaring any money I send over as coming from an inheritance. Once I have used up the amount that I can prove as inherited I will review the situation.