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1 hour ago, Pouatchee said:

 

8 billion? thats more than the world population.

these numbers from the TaT?

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

Thailand anticipates welcoming 8 million Chinese travellers

Not sure where your getting 8 billion from but even 8 million is 21,857 per day, every day.

14 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

It pays to be beautiful.....

Bt800,000 is certainly enough to pay for her nose that's for sure.

12 minutes ago, Greenwich Boy said:

4 teaspoons of instant coffee dissolved in a little hot water. Add one tin of evaporated milk, one tin of condensed milk and half a bottle of Sangsom. Mix well. Job done, one litre of industrial strength coffee liquer ( like Baileys) Serve ice cold. Try it

Yeh!!!!!!! I'll give that a go. Cheers. 4 teaspoons of coffee and alcohol. Feel good heart palpitations.

Maybe this is all part of the bigger plan by the military/elites and more than likely another influence to destabilise parliament. Parliament is dissolved, fresh elections are run and MF or whatever they're called at the time and PT will have some sort of charges against them and the aforementioned military/elite will once again be in full control. Just a scenario but IMO not one that can be fully disregarded. 

4 hours ago, flyingtlger said:

It's too easy to buy illegal guns in Thailand and with advent of 3D printers, it's getting easier and easier to make one.

I agree with dinsdale, I don't think it'll get any traction here....

Had a BIB try to sell me a handgun many years back.

3 hours ago, GreasyFingers said:

That might explain the differences in Lay's over the last year.

Originally 50 gm packet for 20 baht

then 42 gm for 20 baht

then 42 gm for 22 baht

now 48 gm for 20 baht

Must have realised a 16% reduction in volume plus a 10% price increase was making too much profit.

Srinkflation has been happening for years now. I've tried to explain this to Thais saying it makes the product more expensive for what you get. Some understand but most just no not more expensive. Same price.

This type of amnesty was successful in Australia. It won't be here.

1 minute ago, CygnusX1 said:

Label on mine’s a bit different - it does say “Chairman’s B52”, to give it a bit of exclusivity, and it’s missing the “Imported”, just “‘Product of France” in much smaller text at the bottom. Yes, I think the Kahlua I saw would have been around 1700 baht, one of the few things here more expensive than in Australia (chocolate’s the other one).

????? Do you mean more expensive in Australia?

17 minutes ago, CygnusX1 said:

Actually, taking a closer look at the label, I realise I’ve just told a lie - it says “Product of France”, unlikely as that seems, given the price. Brand is “Chairman’s B52”. Apologies I don’t have the computer skills to post a picture of the label. Don’t remember the exact price, might have been around 500 baht? for 70cl.

30 minutes ago, CygnusX1 said:

The only alcohol I drink is a dash of Kahlua that I add to a milk shake. I was appalled by the Thai price, but quickly realised there were locally made coffee liqueurs that were crazily cheap, which I think taste just as good. Looks like they might be even cheaper now.

Thai coffee liqueurs. Name? Picture? I would be very interested to give it a go.

3 minutes ago, manta said:

This will not reflect on the sale price, it’ll only go to profit the business owners…

Agree. Save Bt75 a bottle in tax, bring down the price Bt5, hey presto extra Bt70 profit per bottle minus the kickback.

7 minutes ago, keithkarmann said:

Children in charge.

Alas not. Children have yet to learn corruption. They are the product of the privileged. Empty headed fools who are very good at filling their own pockets.

8 minutes ago, proton said:

There's alway yha dong from the market, no tax on that!

Yadong is lao khao infused with some sort of herbs and stuff. I got drunk on that once and had a hangover for 3 days.

3 minutes ago, Dionigi said:

The pattaya news article shows changes only to alcohol produced in thailand and does not show beer.

 

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh😔 So it's only for the rot gut. Very, very disappointing.

2 minutes ago, proton said:

 

Hong tong blended spirits 35% poor product and Blend 285 is another weak one, at least it does have some real whisky in it

Alas beggars can't be choosers. I'm not paying the money they want for anything decent. Also you can see I said Blend 285 Signature. Definitely better than the 285. I don't drink that.

12 minutes ago, proton said:

Kulov Vodka and Regency brandy are ok

Regency sends me crazy. Brandy always has bad brandy more so. I stay well away from that stuff. The vodka is hangover city so that was taken off the shopping list. Hong Thong and Blend 285 signature are ok for me though.

3 minutes ago, crazykopite said:

The way I read this is a tax reduction on the local Thai alcohol not the imported stuff so those who benefit will be able to drown there sorrows with the cheap Thai gut rot  whiskey those of us who enjoy a good high  quality drink will e paying what we were paying before this announcement 

Yes it is only the local stuff but they did say also imports previously (see above post of the article from Jan 8). Seems they've backtracked on the most important part. As for the local stuff well lets wait and see what happens and as for the local wine IMO to call it wine is a very, very big stretch.

14 minutes ago, BenStark said:

I missed that one.

In a previous article about a month ago was stated that it would also be on imports. So in fact they, they backtracked again, and are only strengthening their local monopolies?

I posted that article. Is was from Jan 8. See pg 2 of this thread for my post.

4 minutes ago, Gandtee said:

Let's get down to basics. How much will a case of Chang be now?

"now" is an interesting word in your sentence. I wonder when exactly now will be. How much reduction in price? Well TIT so probably go up.

Just now, Toby1947 said:

150 baht at Aldi in the UK

Bt500ish can get you a very nice bottle of red in Ausralia. 

5 minutes ago, wimpy said:

What does this have to do with lowering the tax rate on locally produced alcoholic beverages?

I was responding to other posters. Anything wrong with that?