MikeN

And what if you don't want cash but want to pay somebody ? but not so irrelevant...Krungsri and kasikorn have both closed their branches in my town, so to make a transaction over their daily limit at the branch, as you (brian69) suggested, means nearly an hour's drive into Ubon, during banking hours only.

The other day I got a message from Krungsri telling me my daily transaction limit had changed, without me asking for it, so I got on to my phone and checked. I now had a daily limit of 1 million baht ! Whoa...don't need anything near that amount so I changed it in their app back down to 100,000/day. 2 days later I got another message telling me my limit had changed. This time it had been reduced to 50.000baht per day ! that is now the maximum that can be set via their app.

Well, it will be now the story is out!

I saw this news on a Youtube short and thought, no they cannot be serious...but Googling it shows it was true ...Congressman Buddy Carter introduces a motion to give the prize to Trump : WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today introduced a resolution expressing the sense of Congress that President Donald J. Trump should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for the historic peace deals secured during his time in office, including the recent announcement of an end to hostilities and release of hostages in the Israel-Hamas conflict. “No one deserves the Nobel Peace Prize more than Donald J. Trump, the Peace President. In nine short months, he’s negotiated seven peace deals, not including the recent announcement of a historic agreement between Israel and Hamas to release the hostages and end hostilities. He has already saved countless lives, and the world is forever indebted to him for his courageous pursuit of peace,” said Rep. Carter. Never mind that the qualifying period finished long ago so Israel/Hamas is irrelevant, what the US Congress thinks does not decided the Nobel winner!

It looks like Anutin and the BJT will be in charge, subject to the PP's support. So I guess the Election Commission and the DSI will quickly end their investigation into the "blue" senators and the rigged Senate election due to a sudden lack of evidence.

There is no eligible PP candidate ! The MFP/PP only nominated one person before the last election, who got banned. That was a big mistake on their part.

My wife reckons Thaksin did a deal to get himself off his lese majeste charges last week.....sacrificed his daughter's political career to go scot free! He still has the outstanding matter of a supreme court review into his hospital stay though

Had a visit in Ubon province the other day, 3 guys turned up...no uniform, no police car, so my wife was suspicious and rang the local cop station but all was above board. They had 4 or 5 A4 pages with about 12-15 names on each page so quite a list to check. Just looked at my passport, ticked my name and left.

After a lifetime slaving over hot stoves in commercial kitchens, it makes me cringe when my wife breaks all the "rules" about food safety and never suffers any effects. Won't put leftover food in the fridge until it is cold, then eats it days later. We had grilled fish 5 days ago, she ate the leftovers today...aroi! No way was I touching it. When reheating leftover rice she won't just heat enough for her meal, she will do the lot and put the excess back on the bench to be reheated again days later. Apart from food safety issues food loses flavour when reheated again...but as it is usually smothered in chilli I guess that don't matter!

And what about other, privately owned places that are not funded by taxes ? and of course, many Thais don't pay any income tax, my wife has never paid any so does she pay the surcharge ? In fact, I once read that tourists on a 2 week vacation here pay more tax through VAT than most Thais do in a year. VAT on their hotel, all the airport taxes, they eat at restaurants that charge VAT unlike locals eating at their favourite noodle shop. Going on a tour? there will be VAT on that. Buying souvenirs? more VAT.

probably any of the ones that don't directly say "no foreigners", but do require a thai Id number

One thing I don't like about this falang business is that it's khon gaoli, khon yippoon but not khon falang....no honorific. I asked my Thai language teacher why she used "khon" when addressing the Asian students in my class "how do khon yippoon do this or that" but with me, the only white guy, it was how do falang do something. She got really uptight at me just for asking a simple question, so much so that I asked the head teacher to be transferred into a different class.

And Expat Tax Thailand were very clear in one of their webinars that it is only cash holdings ! No stocks or shares, superannuation or anything else, just cash in the bank. I would have to go back and watch it again, but I think that was confirmed by a TRD official in one of their Q&A videos.

Because of the number of exemptions, that's why. In the case of Australians ...got a military pension? Non assessable income, no need to file. Civil servant? ditto. Police pension? ...ditto There are 61 countries with Double Taxation Agreements, most of them different. You think IOs are going to understand the varying details about who will need to file a tax return or not?

^ Ah, ok then, things have changed since last year, but first I've heard of it. probably due to an "improvement" in the online 90 day process, LOL.