gravity101

Lol What did Chalong do?

...or were not invited. 🙅‍♂️

Dont confuse asylum seekers with illegal immigrants with legal migrants will ya. hey. Im sure your more astute than that.

For 20m It'll have to be a Temu. Probably arrive as a 5 inch firework.

TCL and Hisense offical stores on Lazada use their own delivery. Certainly did a few weeks ago. I found Hisense chat on Lazada very helpful and attentive.

Its not IMO, its very factual. Its already been seen in Thailand with wealthy Thais and remittance for investment. The TRD are walking back that one with draft exemptions to encourage money to be repatriated. We all know the uber wealthy Thais are significant to the economy, the TRD can't afford to lose their participation in tax receipts.

Sounds pretty much the same as me. i guess sticking my head in the sand is too strong a term, but certainly not trying very hard. The BOI certainly know my 'income' as it was submitted during the LTR process, wouldn't seem far fetched for the TRD to have hold of it and put me on a list. Anyway, I was just curious if I was the only one not filing and not really taking it too seriously.. maybe to my detriment. We did all think a LTR visa was a carteblanche licence not to think about tax right?

Just out of curiosity, is anyone sticking their head in the sand with regards to the taxation issue? Im on an LTR WP, I do have a TIN, but haven't filed for over 13 years since I no longer needed a WP. My money is pooled in various instruments and liquid cash offshore so it would be extremely hard to prove any remittance came from money made that year, even if I wanted to. Am I the only one who's burying they're head? Or should I be more proactive especially with this new information of same year income not being tax exempt. I had a brief chat with the law office that did my LTR and they said do nothing is best.

Agree. It was pure luck I even had those pages scanned and available on my phone as I'd recently sent them to the marine office on Line. I now have more pages scanned and stored on the phone for easy accessibility for the future. In all my years, this was the first time I had been asked for my 'papers' while out and about.

My permission to stay is actually 2027 as that when my passport expires. I didn't have a scan of that page on my phone.

I got caught up in an immigration check at a villa construction site last week. Had to show them a scanned copy of my pages. Wow, some really didn't have a clue what a LTR visa was. Said it was expired (they assumed the 2034 stamp was 2024 and Interestingly; his mobile phone where he was looking me up did not know of my LTR (or he couldn't find it), and only knew of my cancelled Non-O from 2024. That was a bit freaky) then said it wasn't real (I think), they really thought they had a big fish in amongst the Burmese workers. I was put up against a wall! Took a good 10 minutes until someone with a clue interjected and let me leave. (Not after one of them trying to start a WP conversation, which I shot down - I wasn't working).

Yep. Had to look them up. Chinese Macau gaming and resorts. No wonder they want and need big numbers. Locusts.

Of course you would, as would I. Let's say, hyperthetically the UK processed an applicant in 1 day; zero need for ALL the free stuff they get right now. They would be free to add to the workforce, pay tax and be a net positive, or if found to be a bogus claim, sent back to point of entry. Either way, none of this free accomodation and food and basic health would be needed. Maybe the we should be addressing the causes rather than barricading the ramparts. This is the main objective of international aid, to try and stop things at source. It may sound idealistic, but show some humanity.

To be fair, UK has a lot of kebab shops too.

They do. Germany, Poland and France all have more refugees than the UK does. And countries like Spain are on equal footing in terms of refugees to the UK. Turkey significantly more. Maybe they like the UKs food and climate 😉