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Clearly lol

One tip if you get "private" packages even via DHL and Co. Just send stuff second hand 🙂 e.g. without packaging. Used clothes and so on. You can value these items much lower as they are USED and Dirty and so you stay under certain tresholds. Works quite well for me lately since they really enforce the 1500 THB limit.. But I think today I really had to pay that 7% on top of the package lmao... I had to pay 78 THB... but I am fine with that. They do it now differently they attach a letter to the package and write it big on it and still release it directly. I guess if the tax is low they do it like that because if I had to pay higher tax I had to make the online payment first before it was delivered the next day. (at least the online platform to pay the duty works flawless) Thai Post delivers normal private DHL packages here in Thailand as well the small ones you send as a private person. Please don't judge me if this is okay or not but I find it ridiculous to pay Import Taxes on some package that your family member sends you which is valued under 50$.....

Don't worry long enough here to know this part. I mean the Weed topic is another one 😄 lets legalize weed and now they see the consequences and try to revert it. But I never thought they don't understand why foreigners come here and invest. It's also weird to do this when the (Thai) economy is struggling.

The damage is really made. Imagine you want to emigrate to Thailand now.. who with a right mindset is willing to come here now after all these uncertainty and new tax laws. It really feels like they did something without thinking about the consequences. Who really thinks that people will still invest into Thailand now when next year they really bring the law to tax the whole world income. Chinese investors will also not like it. I think the Thai officials will realize that at some point and give tax incentives as they try already with some new visa types. But we will see how all this ages in the next 24 months.

This thread reads like a thriller 😄 thanks for all the input. If Yingluck shows up in Thailand the next 2 weeks this was the flight. This whole thing makes no sense for me especially getting so many ambulances when there are 9 people on-board lol. Somewhere the ATC has to have total wrong information because normally they ask for "souls on board" .. 10 ambulances and fire fighters would have been enough no? But it seems the ATC just saw what airplane it is?

*who has less than 500k THB in their bank account 😄

If this gets enforced (not only a law that no one cares about) then this is the max exodus Thailand wants to see. They can't have their mind right 😄 first they close the 1 year loophole (which is something I can live with) but now they wanna play world police 😄 It's so funny on the other hand they want everyone coming (Visa's for everyone lol) and on the other hand they make rules that will not favor any foreigner living here anymore.

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They "closed" the Orchard Tower for Night Life 🙂 was a fun place have to say. The pubs stand out haha we had some good nights there with funny music. Crazy how one Redditor can spread these lies about the guy being dead and every newspaper in the world picks it up. Shows a lot how manipulative this stuff is nowadays. Seeing the videos they seem alive, was just a brawl with a really bad kick though. That part is still crazy Hope the guy checked up at the hospital because he can still bleeding in his brain/head. Wonder if they will ever complain and the guards will get charged or if they just disappear and want it gone (the UK boys). I mean they still have a case here as they got attacked and beaten but most probably they understand they not innocent making stress in the bar as you see on the videos.

Yes so in the end this line is on hold till anyone decides to pay for it 🙂 I agree a lot of overpriced house projects now here around me and everyone is doing Marketing with "Skytrain is coming", luckily I bought years ago and didn't speculate on the monorail. Just monitoring what happens and will update again in one - two years here I guess if there are any news 🙂 I still believe in the next 10 years this project will happen hopefully 😄

Update 2024 regarding the Railway Bang Na to the Airport... https://www.thaipbs.or.th/news/content/336971 Bangkok announced the cancellation of the construction project for 3 electric train routes "Silver Line - Gray Line - Blue Line" due to insufficient budget and wanting to return it to the government to do it themselves. To connect to the future common ticket system with other electric train lines In the end Bangkok gives the responsibility for this project back to the Ministry of Transport so they have to use their budget and not Bangkok's Budget 😄 As a lot of the line is anyways in Samut Prakan I was wondering who takes care of the whole project. Not the best news in another article I read that the studies suggested that the passenger demand will only be high enough if the line ends at the airport which was planned in a later stage of the project and not from the beginning. While I still think the line is needed and would have a great demand (ending at the airport) this will be all postponed now and I don't see this line opening before 2032 or so if ever.

Crazy that we are now at 119 pages 😄 this topic is quite important for a lot of people here.

Yeah super disappointed that no one distributes this Ooni ovens in Thailand... you really need to bring it by yourself or risk big import taxes when shipping it here (which I wouldn't risk made already bad experience here with crazy high import taxes) Great stuff once someone distributes it I will also get me one and that propane conversion which seems to get better results. Till then Gallery Pizza and others have to just send me some good pizza via Delivery 😄 and my Weber bbq has to make me some Cheeseburgers.

And I tell you most of us are thinking the same. Yes we may all love Thailand and living here is still good (was better before Covid and the whole inflation on groceries) ... but it's replaceable by other countries in SEA ????

Point is... even if it's not targeting foreigners. It makes the whole process a lot more headache and most probably paperwork heavy. This will not attract money to invest into the country like real-estate. Maybe a lot of exceptions coming though e.g. for all Chinese? ???? The Real Estate lobby will make a statement soon on this topic wait for it ???? they already afraid now to loose customers.