4MyEgo

I'm a lover, not a fighter, and no I have never been in a fight, too smart for that, albeit it, I kick sand in my own face when at the beach.

You lost the battle when you asked. Next you will be quoting me Voltaire whom I believe you would be well aware of as you state, you read a lot, however appear to be somewhat uneducated IMO. “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.”

Oh really, when did they invade the great USA, or when did they intend to ? I suppose it's like saying Iraq had weapons of mass destructions too, none found to date...LoL You don't say, and who paid for that error with their lives, certainly not the politicians, they lined their pockets, didn't they, compliments the Military Industrial Complex. Tell that to yourself.

Really, so what was the "machine" invented for, wait, don't tell me, to save American lives that were under attack in a foreign country right, ooops, never mid the casualties, there not ours anyway. https://www.holloman.af.mil/About/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/317295/f-4-phantom-ii/#:~:text=The F-4 Phantom II,interdiction and close-air support.

The mother-in-law from hell.....LOL

I wonder how much time he will do, probably none, which will send a clear message to others to continue to give out our personal information. When my wife is on the phone and says Tiruk, how much do we pay for our car insurance, I say hang up, and then when she says but I have an insurance company on the phone who says they can do us a better deal, oh, really, ask them where they got your number from and then we can start to talk, they then hang up when my wife says, my husband is a farang and wants to know where you got my number from....LoL

It further backs up what I have been saying all along with regard to the Double Taxation Agreement between Australia and Thailand, Article's 18 & 19 to be specific.

Apologies if I am bringing you bad news. From my limited understanding of the new code, it states that if you are a tax resident of Thailand, i.e. 180 days in a financial year I believe, and you remit money from abroad to Thailand, apart from savings, which is not an income, then it isn't taxable. Now, I believe that your superannuation would be savings (forced savings) in one way or another and therefore not taxable, i.e. in Australia if you take it out after age 60. It would be up to the Thai government to want to understand that interpretation, and if it would apply here in the LOS, i.e. you put money into your superannuation as future savings for your retirement, and now that you are retired, your Superannuation is savings that you draw down on, and that it was taxed going in, e.g. 15%, and no tax paid coming out, as that was the incentive for people to save for their future retirement, so as not to burden the Australian Government having to pay Age Pensions, now whether they turn around and say, yeh, well, that agreement was between you and your government when you were a resident in Australia, however now you are a resident here, and if I read correctly the DTA in particular Article's 18 & 19 provide Thailand the right to tax you here as a resident, as you are remitting your pension here, and it hasn't been taxed in Australia. Please let me know your thoughts on this, I am not saying I am right, just presenting the facts the way I see it, and it sounds like they can tax you here, as much as it irks me to say it. This is particularly relevant for those living in Thailand and surviving on their Australian age-pensions, and/or on their Australian (non-government) superannuation pensions, as the tax treaty states that ONLY Thailand can tax those pensions! https://www.expattaxes.com.au/update-thailand-clarifies-tax-on-foreign-income/#:~:text=This is particularly relevant for,Thailand can tax those pensions!

More clarification on the DTA in regard to the Age Pensions & Superannuation Pensions, whereby the below clearly states that Thailand can only tax Pensions, boo-hoo. I strongly believe that someone has truly buried their head in the sand (HK) as opposed to "researching" further as we haven't heard from him and his so called admittance to be wrong yet.....expected though. My my, at the press of a button (research), I found this to add. This is particularly relevant for those living in Thailand and surviving on their Australian age-pensions, and/or on their Australian (non-government) superannuation pensions, as the tax treaty states that ONLY Thailand can tax those pensions! https://www.expattaxes.com.au/update-thailand-clarifies-tax-on-foreign-income/#:~:text=This is particularly relevant for,Thailand can tax those pensions!

I have yet to see evidence that both Russia and China are a threat to world peace, (American propaganda), yet the rhetoric is always the same as to how they brainwash their weak, and others. NATO is nothing more than a puppet for the American Military Industrial Complex, and I applaud how BRICS is sticking it to them by moving away from the US $ in return, suffice to say, that is a major threat to American, and I can't wait for the US $ to tank after dominating all currencies since WWII, time to take it down a notch fellas'...LoL

Just remember to say, that you are back to stay, and if you buy a unit, that should add weight to your application. See copy and pasted on the 2 years, at the very bottom. If you have separated from your wife, they should accept a Statutory Declaration as I have been told, otherwise divorcing, if you are legally married in Australia will cost you $1,000 upwards, so the Stat Dec would be the cheaper alternative, suffice to say, if you were married in Australia and are now separated, you might want to consider divorcing because she could go you half the unit IMO, perhaps seek legal advice on that. My advice would be not to mention that your wife, if still married or not, has land, as they could put that down as an asset. You see, if you are married, you will get the married pension, but at the single rate, i.e. a few hundred bucks less than the single rate, so if your separated, go the single age pension route, and of course, the less you tell them the better the outcome, they are not your friend and will reduce the age pension where they can, and even decline you if they think you will go back after the 2 years. If you get through all of those hurdles, then after 2 years, you can go back and have the age pension made portable. Good luck. Since 20 September 2000, a former resident who returns to Australia and is granted Age or DSP, or who transfers to Age under SS(Admin)Act section 12, cannot take that pension outside Australia if they leave within 2 years of having resumed residence in Australia. The purpose of this legislation is to discourage people from travelling to Australia just to get an Australian pension to take back overseas. The 2-year period includes, as separate full days, the day on which the recipient returns to Australia to resume Australian residence and the day on which they leave again. There is no discretionary power to allow portability of Age or DSP during the 2-year period (note, some exceptions to the 2-year rule apply - see below). Payment may be suspended for short overseas absences during the 2-year period and does not have to be reclaimed on return to Australia. A short absence from Australia (as long as the person is still classed as an Australian resident) will not impact on the end date of the 2-year period (i.e. the absence still counts towards the person's 2-year period). Link below: https://guides.dss.gov.au/social-security-guide/7/1/4?fbclid=IwAR0BOQA8UzTTsKwSi6xLfFppN7jlKTlm9zIROcy31N8kUU2KCu5cvuqwOOs

Ah yes the F4 and it's purpose for killing and invading countries that hadn't invaded America, but it supported the military industrial complex and the elitists pockets. Lets not talk about the children that got caught up in this madness. There is no justification for this or any type of weapons that kill in wars, yet sitting down and negotiating until one comes to a common ground has no monetary value, does it, just look at Ukraine and Palestine at the moment. So shallow, perhaps your parasites' are your punishment from the GOOD old days catching up with your past, if that's the case, well what can I say ?

In that case it could be "Tactical Hallucinations" hence the reason I was asking the questions.

Before I dive into this, I would like to ask the following questions. Do you live alone ? If you do not live alone, are there any other family members infected, or do they have what you have or see what you have or even see what you see ? These are serious question, I am not taking the p-ss out of you, just trying to understand the broader picture if there is one.

If it were me, I would have provided him with three options, the 1st would be for him to STFU, or the 2nd option would be for me to gag him, and the 3rd, to ask the stewards to turn the lights down, whilst I knock him out with one punch, naturally after offering him all 3 options, I would then provide him with the 3rd option whether he liked it or not. I think it's time Stewards did some training on how to apply pepper spray and how to put on handcuffs in situations like this. I hope he doesn't get let off easily, and the plan returned to Thailand, were justice could be better served than in the UK, fricken nutter. “Two passengers sat on either side of him and kept pulling him down. We had to put up with his shouting. He was being very verbally abusive.

If your hear on an extension, I see no reason why you can't, that said, accounts have fees, e.g. I believe SCB charge me 200 or 300 baht a year to have an account, and of course pay me SFA interest and tax me 17% of that interest, not 100% sure if that is the case, but someone told me if you don't have a TIN, they charge you tax on your interest earned, fair enough, whatever. I don't deal with SCB staff at all, just make withdrawals from the app via any ATM machine and pay no fees, regardless if in or out of the province, and transfer funds to them from overseas, only time staff see me is for my annual extension letter that I require from them to confirm the funds have been in there for the time required, used to wait 45 minutes, now about 15-30 minutes, still a waste of time, but it is what it is.

I would imagine most bikes would come with 2, my son purchased a new Yamaha R150 recently and was provided with 2, one he has since lost......LoL Go back to the shop, or ring them and tell them you only received one key, who knows the other might be under your seat.

I will admit that I am not the brightest spark when it comes to technology, but I do somehow manage to get by. I am with you about them stopping internet banking, but I would say that there would be a reason for that, e.g. maybe they or their customers have been hacked too many times and have been exposed to having to cough up to cover the losses ? Me personally, was never an app person, mobile was for making calls, but then came along all the usual apps, like Facebook, Line, WhatsApp, Wise etc etc so I slowly made progress in using them and have been up to speed for a while now, that said, when I had to change over to the SCB app, it was daunting, still is in a way, that said, I manage, but when I do need to do something new to me, I call Mummy dearest because she is all over this type of stuff, wallets, codes etc etc which I won't even venture into as change getting harder when aging, well for me it is. Just out of interest: VPN stands for "Virtual Private Network" and describes the opportunity to establish a protected network connection when using public networks. VPNs encrypt your internet traffic and disguise your online identity. This makes it more difficult for third parties to track your activities online and steal data.

HK could start reading Confucius and learn somethings in life, as opposed to posting his negative and misleading views that are not backed up with anything of substance, suffice to say, one quote from the old boy comes to mind: " A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake." In other words, is he admits he is WRONG and has made a mistake, he might actually grow as a person, but I think he is way past that point, then again, I could be wrong, but won't be holding my breath as I did take to the bone.

LoL, that is so funny, 1st laugh and smile of the day, thanks for that. Talking about obsessive - compulsive traits, I couldn't help myself, just having gone over and looking at Article 17 & 18 of the DTA between Australia & Germany, and can clearly say, that it is pretty much no different to the DTA between Australia & Thailand, and the 15% tax he is on about is totally misrepresented by that certain member IMO, once again. Deflection, or could it be how that person reads into things, not really understanding what he is talking about, which would mean that he is WRONG....LoL, no names mentioned of course, and I just had a thought, call it my opinion, i.e. I believe that, that person could be showing a certain trait which could be Schizophrenia, that said, I am no medical professional, and could be clearly wrong, but that person does in my opinion show similar traits as defined in that condition. The condition affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves, that said, I will go and waste my time making breakfast now, take my meds, and bid you a good day.

If I was a betting man, I would bet that in no way, shape or form that he was in tax or finance because he has no idea what he is talking about, maybe, just maybe a politicians side kick, at the lowest entry that there is, because we all know how they put a spin on things, you know, always denying things, even after contradicting themselves, then deflecting, so as to avoid admitting that they were WRONG. One minute they say they have stopped researching, then in the same post admit that they say they are still researching, if that' not contradicting oneself then I don't know what is, then he moves onto the Germany treaty, who cares, it was never in the discussion, it's another deflection, and Article 18 he says Article 19 has to go with Article 18, but doesn't accept the fact that the provisions of Article 19 does not, if it is only the Age Pension and nothing else in Article 18, and so on and so forth, but as I have said time and time again, there was a movie out called Dumber Dumber which could be befitting. If I had to use one word of many words on this forum without being in fear of being shut down, I would say that he has a mental condition, sad really, however the word eludes me at the moment. Only if he could say that he was WRONG, he would be set free, but that is a big if......as far as I'm concerned he can stay in his lane, but would recommend that he change his meds, because it's evident that they aren't working.

Use of ATM card usually come with a charge of about 200 baht per 20,000 baht maximum, per time transactions, i.e. every time you make a transaction up to you Australian credit/debit card limit, you will x that by, suffice to say if my limit is $2,000 per day and I want it all in that day, I would be up for 2 x 200 baht in that day, using the LOWER exchange rate, that ATM's usually give, then you have to add the charges that your bank will make back in Australia, usually about the same, so it would be a double wammy, plus a lower exchange rate IMO. As for retirement visa/extensions, we all know of these agents that will go down the illegal route for xyz baht. Everyone has choices and if you want to use the ATM route, be prepared to pay the price, same applies with agents going down the illegal route. I don't believe he has added any value to anything he has provided out of the 747 strikes he has provided, and of course we all know that a person who won't admit that they are WRONG is unrepentant.

Can you please provide the two useful pieces of information he has provided, because a 2 out of 747 strike rate does sound like a public servant to me. Agree with you 1,000% on that, although there is another one out there, no names mentioned...LoL

Correct, but you and I know that isn't going to happen, not unless, we start believing that there is a new tax treaty someone, lurking in the dark, that a particular member we all know very well who loves to scaremonger, is talking about to deflect that he was WRONG all along that Aged Pensioners as residents in Thailand had to pay 32.5% tax in Australia....LoL I hazzard a guess, that member will also wear you down sooner or later because he doesn't accept responsibility when he is wrong, he would rather waste members times trying to force his skewed point of views across and constantly ask member to interpret this or that, which is a deflection, when we have provided him with the relevant information that the majority of member agree is correct and stands. We still haven't seen he say he was WRONG, because he is still researching, latest is the new German treaty....LoL, and is scaremongering that Australia is going to go down that path, as opposed to admitting he was WRONG. My advice is best ignore him, or as others have said, block him, but for me, I would rather see this individual carry on with his prophesies that will not come to fruition.

FYI: The 2-year period includes, as separate full days, the day on which the recipient returns to Australia to resume Australian residence and the day on which they leave again. https://guides.dss.gov.au/social-security-guide/7/1/4