Henryford

On 8/6/2024 at 10:27 PM, rhodie said:

Just send the money to your wife's account as a gift. No tax on gifts. 

Surely you are still remitting income to Thailand. Does it matter to which account?

"plans to use the 10,000", thery make it sound like big money - one trip to Makro will just about do it.

Check out the City Hall car park, full of 4 million baht Mercedes.

Just what we need to add to the other 100 exchange booths. But the rate will be so bad that no one will use it.

15 hours ago, DGS1244 said:

Monorails are a total waste of money, they fail and breakdown frequently in nearly every country that has  installed them. The only one that really works is in Japan.

Building the monorail is not the objective of the exercise. The objective is to get new Mercs for all of those in charge of the project.

But not "shocked" enough to stop supporting the Russian murderers.

They should do a roaring trade selling hair loss products to British tourists/expats.

1 hour ago, novacova said:

The AGR building where the shooter was positioned was exposed and not covered by the SS, clearly a gap and failure of the SS. 

So the SS didn't think to cover the only tall building with a direct line of fire to the podium? Sounds very fishy.

1 hour ago, susanlea said:

Have you been to Thailand?

Only lived here for 20 years

On 7/12/2024 at 5:46 PM, susanlea said:

I don't believe most of the stories I read on here. A single person could totally live on 25,000 imo if they wanted.

Yes it's easy to exist on 25k a month but most people want a nice time in retirement so it's restaurants, holidays, girls, bikes, electronic stuff so i would say you need at least 80k a month.

That new shape looks great. I have never been interested in a PCX, they have used that boring design for what 10-15 years.

16 hours ago, scubascuba3 said:

Don't waste your time learning the language, don't need it in Bangkok, Pattaya, ChiangMai, with Google translate and google lens it makes it simple

I agree. It's useful to know a few phrases and numbers etc but in the main cities you can get by fine without knowing Thai. With the new Samsung AI apps you can talk to anyone.

12 minutes ago, watchcat said:

 

One would think that after the first robbery there was nothing more to steal.

I guess people tend to replace the stuff from the first theft so they go back to steal the new stuff.

Must be mad to leave your passport to avoid the "work" of doing a 90 day report. How much work would it be to replace a lost passport.

Try to get your EV and battery serviced by Somchai at the end of the Soi.

On 7/6/2024 at 2:33 PM, ChaiyaTH said:

Will be amazing exact in the middle of high season: people smoking legal on christmas, last day of the year, to then be arrested, fined at a court + deported on 1st jan '25? This together with the taxes, I guess all clears up fast around happy new year, will make my decision easy, to leave Thailand for Vietnam with my family. 

Already figured out the new school, housing, visa and more. It is all easier and better for people who actually contribute and employ. Smoking weed would also be the exact same as you can already do that here everywhere in Vietnam too. Same to buy good indoor.

A fine, if it is not a bribe, legally by court on the first time, is only a 100 dollars anyway. And the only time that happened so far was when a French guy was growing hundreds of plants in his garden in Hanoi lol.

 

I will laugh so so hard, if Vietnam decides to open medical shops, in 1-2 years from now, while Thailand fked up, again.

You are going to leave, with your family, just so you can get stoned?

I recently sold my Canon 80d and was thinking of getting a mirrorless camera, maybe the Sony A7 IV or the Canon R6ii. But prices seem to have risen a lot in recent years. Either of those with just one decent lens is well over 100,000 baht. Not sure i want to invest that much in a system especially as the photos i get from my Samsung S23 Ultra are, for the most part, excellent.

On 7/1/2024 at 10:55 PM, NoDisplayName said:

 

E-Savings deposits under 1 million baht will pay 1.50% per year and those over 1 million baht will pay 0.65% per year.

 

That would be OK for my 800k, i only get 0.9% with Krungsri but the account is not available to farangs.

52 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

The contract is made when you agree the purchase in Thailand, hand over you credit card and and the merchant provides the goods or services you agreed to buy. That settlement is made later elsewhere is not relevant. It is not correct to say the cash never reaches Thailand, the merchant is paid is he not.

I was merely raising the question, who knows. Is there a line on the thai tax return to show all purchases made via a foreign credit card?