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Except when it comes to cigarettes. The Tobacco Authority of Thailand is a Thai state enterprise and the sole legal entity permitted to produce tobacco products in the country, mostly cigarettes.

Thailand has around 250,000 people working in the sex industry, ranking it in 8th place globally, according to statistics published by the International Union of Sex Workers (IUSW). Thailand ties with Brazil in number of sex workers. Revenue of around $6.4 billion is generated by Thailand sex workers annually. In math a negative times a negative equals a positive.

Isn't the offset limited to no more than your US tax liability? For example if your Thailand tax bracket exceeds your US tax bracket, then you may have a Thai tax liability in excess to your US tax liability. There are many US tax provisions that can substantially reduce one's (typically wealthy person) US tax liabilities. But if Thailand does not match those tax advantages, one could fall into a higher Thailand tax bracket than a US tax bracket - thus, causing (albeit small) an additional Thailand income tax that would not violate the tax treaty?

Learn from your experience. As Lucy in the movie said, "Learning is a painful process." And you just got a lot of process.

From the LTR Visa unit last year: LTR Visa holders residing in Thailand continuously for more than 1 year are required to report their current address to the local Immigration office of their residence. This report can be done either in person or by an authorized representative and must be completed annually from the LTR Visa issuance date. However, for individuals re-entering the Kingdom, the report will be due 1 year from the date of the latest arrival. LTR Visa holders can submit the report 15 days before or 7 days after the due date. ---------------------------------------------------------- The necessary documents for this report include: 1. Passport 2. TM.95 Form (completely filled out and signed) [Download link: https://www.immigration.go.th/?avada_portfolio=คำสั่งสำนักงานตรวจคนเข-3 (Page 14) 3. T.M. 6 Card (or arrival/departure card if applicable) 4. 1-Year report notification card (if available) If your local Immigration Bureau does not recognize the LTR Visa, you can provide them with the official announcement link on page 6 here: https://www.immigration.go.th/?avada_portfolio=คำสั่งสำนักงานตรวจคนเข-3 ----------------------------------------------------------- I extracted the TM95 from the download link. BOI is very responsive to LTR visa holder questions by phone and email. TM95.pdf

With LTR you get free multiple re-entry permits. Like with annual extensions with non O or OA when you leave the country before your next report date (1 year), it is extended when you re-enter from one year so it seems your original 1 year report date was extended another 90 days. At immigration you should get a notice put in you passport with the new reporting date. There is no penalty. As your re-entry date documents your return date to Thailand, the IO may have felt you new report date is apparent without having to put a new date in your passport? Not something I would take for granted.

Earth was about 1.4 degrees Celsius warmer in 2023. Not much leeway remaining for worldwide cooperation.

90% of population in the region are Muslim, under a State of Emergency thst suspends c9nstitutional rights by the Thai governments for decades.

Just look at the treatment of Ukrainians by occupying Russian military.

Biden needs to add focus on Florida's fast growing Latino population that that I feel he ignored in the 2020 election, losing to Trump in Florida. In 2020 (pewresearch.org): About 2.5 million Latinos registered to vote in Florida for the 2020 presidential election, making up a record 17% of the state’s total. The state had the largest Latino electorate among all battleground states and the third-largest Latino electorate overall (3.1 million eligible voters), trailing only California (7.9 million) and Texas (5.6 million). Consider: Florida has "open borders" of 2,170km along its coastline, not including the Keys. Among Latino American adults surveyed by Pew Research who identified as multiracial, about 40% reported their race as "white" on standard race question as used on the US Census. A majority of Hispanics (57%) in the US say abortion should be legal in most or all cases. pewresearch.org

Minority governments in power for almost a decade, for the Thai People it can only be "take it."

More foreign workers trafficking into Thailand.

Remembering the PTP represented the minority.

That doesn't mean the AF holds title to the property that should otherwise be held by Thailand Treasury which finances the military through annual disbursements collected from Thailand taxpayers. It's as if the Thai military has its own sovereignty vs the sovereignty of the Thai electorate.

aka representatives of the Thai electorate. The Thai Senate "deselection" candidate system seems similar to the communist one-party system wherein the CP selects candidates who can run for office. But actually marginally superior to the Thailand EC (?) deselection system as a one-party nation electorate still can directly vote for the candidates.

Hardly. "Can the rip-roaring good times for the stock market last?" by David Brancaccio, Meredith Garretson, and Erika Soderstrom, March 14, 2024 marketplace.org The S&P 500 is up about 32% in a year. That’s more than quadruple the 30-year average (inflation-adjusted dividends reinvested). The S&P has returned 11% a year in real terms. For Americans living abroad receiving USD income, foreign service and product costs boost spending power. Albeit import of American products may reduce or disappear from markets as Thai importers lose margins.

If "real workers" means private company employees, it would appear so within a 'short horizon' : "TDRI study finds higher lifetime remuneration for civil servants" , date unknown tdri.or.th "Despite lower monthly pay, civil servants’ lifetime remuneration is higher than private companies’ employees, regardless of education levels The value of benefits gained by civil servants accounts for half of their lifetime income, while that of employees in private firms is relatively lower." But TDRI seems to end with something of a reversal: "salary adjustments should be focused on high-ranking civil servants. The number of new civil servants with low skills should also be limited and their jobs should also be outsourced to private firms" Was that 'have senior civil service get richer' at the expense of entry/lower level civil service ranks?

Isn't it an "allegation" that is being investigated, ie., based on hearsay and/or circumstantial evidence? In which case convictable evidence, if there is any, would need be discovered and/or confirmed by the investigation and not be apparent before hand.

Who's the current PM?

There might also be Thailand natural resources that over the decades have been part of land granted to the military, ie., allegefly for military maneuvers. Such could include embedded timber, coal, minerals, etc. Whose income should belong to the Thai people.

Make that tax-free income. Such income should be deducted from the military's budget by the House.

Reminds me of the Wednesday Addams Dance Scene https://YouTube.com/watch?v=NakTu_VZxJ0

Thailand's application is likely to fail if only for the fact that the Human Rights Commission of Thailand accreditation was downgraded by the UN Sub-Committee on Accreditation in 2015 due to numerous deficiencies that I believe were caused by the NCPO Junta's re-write of the Thai constitution. Essentially the HRCT lost its autonomy and became subservient to the Junta government. As I recall for example, any report on the status of Thailand's human rights had to be reviewed by the government who had editorial right over HRCT's reports before publication. And nothing has been done legislatively to gain that endorsement. I've not seen in any new proposed constitution drafts or proposed amended laws by the Thavisin regime that would cause the HRCT to achieve independence and neutrality required by the SCA for accreditation. Without such basic changes, Thavisin can cheerlead his intents, hopes and aspirations, but will not succeed without specific legislative actions.

It seems a paradox that the Thailand legislative assemblies that created such laws cannot now amend those laws - legislative actions granted by the constitution. While sovereignty of the nation is held by Thai citizens as stated in every Thai constitution that I've seen, apparently possessing sovereignty is not synonymous with execising it.

Unlike "British" English, American English perhaps reflecting a broad freedom of speech in America's history (who cares about Webster?) was influenced by the trans-Atlantic slave trade bringing into America languages from Africa, wars with Indian aborigines, vast Latino immigrations, Mexican-American and Spanish-American wars, and vast number of Chinese immigrants involved in the Western gold rush, building railroads, mining and agriculture. Of course from the beginning of America was the immigration of European citizens seeking greater personal freedoms and economic gain.