NorthernRyland

Exactly, no crops burning, people light the grass in the mountains and road sides intentionally every year and they won't stop until the rains start. There is a culture of burning with these people. Here's a video of this lousy woman I have the displeasure to live next to. They have zero disregard for anything outside their little bubble and if they could make a few baht burning the forest they will absolutely do it. IMG_1072.MOV

Does anyone see any actual crops burning? I haven't seen one in months. All I see are forest fires which they are still lighting up to today. I think the emphasis on crops is over stated and the bigger concern are hill tribes and other mountain people (Thai Yai/Burmese) who are up there foraging in the forests.

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Wait, how much does it usually cost for sex with the skanks in Pattaya? Was she really charging that much more than market rate?

I know of two 25 mil housing projects in CM in my area. I think these are speculative investments or money laundering schemes. One project finally sold (or they took the sign down at least) after 8 years or so (drop the price twice from 25 to 23. I never see the lights on ever, always empty. Could be a Chinese property scam for all I know.

The other week at the land office I saw the sale of a house which was listed at 7 mil and reduced to 6 after one year but I don't know how much they actually paid. It had 3 rai of land (Samoeng, land is like 1 mil per rai) but the house and landscaping was low quality if you ask me. I think the poor guy got ripped off but there are people willing to put down big money, just not many of them. I'd be curious how many people in Thailand even have 22 mil or access to that much credit. This is the top 1% of the country probably so there's not going to be many to go around and there's lots of luxury projects in the country.

I can't believe I forgot this. Just this week a Chinese owned housing project got busted in Hang Dong for using fraudulant nominees. Authorities are apparently on top of the Chinese taking over the housing market but I'm sure many people will slip through the cracks.

Btw, how much did you pay for the property 9 years ago? Curious what kind of inflation we're looking at here.

I have actually seen a little Chinese (Hong Kong) colony forming in Mae Jo. They really let you know exactly they're outsiders and put up flags and Chinese decorations. The authorities are obviously aware so they must have the corruption game down better than whitey. Chiang Mai has been targeted by the Chinese it seems. More reasons to GTFO.

The smoke is peanuts compared to the bigger problem, which is it costs 22 mil baht to get freckin house in a congested polluted city packed full of Chinese money launderers.

One more point, how is a Chinese person going to buy a home in Thailand? They're going to setup a fraudulent nominee company and invest 22 million? That sounds crazy to me.

Did a Thai person list this? I see these kinds of crazy prices and they make no sense to me. Normal middle class houses in Chiang Mai are like 2.5-3.5 million so your house would be the same as 7 mid priced homes. Maybe the idea is that you buy the lot, demolish the house and build a condo. Chiang Mai is rip off these days if you ask me. Sorry that's just a rant, won't help you find your Chinese chump. 😂 Good luck.

Yes that's true but my point is that there was never a "if they said", in fact never once was the issue even brought to our attention. Once they come to us with their hands out and ask for their cut we should act, but not before then.

I guess I don't understand what the IN is. I thought it was used for only filing taxes in Thailand. I can understand them wanting to know about your overseas bank accounts but anything to do with taxes in Thailand doesn't make sense, unless they allow you to pay taxes in Thailand and not to them. I think in the US if you're not present 11 months or something you can file in another country but you can't pay less then you would owe to the US government. Some crap like that.

ok that makes sense they want foreign banks to report them so they can tax their citizens but why banks want some tax number in another country makes no sense to me unless they're planning on telling Thailand about your deposits and help Thailand tax you.

I don't know which countries these are but do you mean all the retirees from those countries have requested TIN's since years ago? I never heard about this until now and all this tax talk came up.

This must be Europe because I've never heard of this in the US. I don't see how it's any business of the bank where I reside X number of months per year and don't think US banks even concern themselves with taxes. Europeans always they say the left because it was nanny state, maybe this is what they're talking about? 😂

What country is this? has Thailand requested that all banks must request a TIN for their customers?

What country is this? Maybe he's opting to pay taxes in Thailand instead of his home country?

Don't play dumb, you know exactly what's going on.

Why does your bank care about taxes in Thailand? It's not their business where you're residing.

I've never heard of anyone being taxed who isn't working here. In theory you're correct though, we've all had tax liabilities since the beginning but then why didn't they even tell us? It would be easy at immigration for them to say, btw, you have a tax liability and need to talk with an accountant, get a TIN etc... If they start making noise about this at immigration then I'll pay attention but until then I appear to be in the same position as always, just like the rest of us.

Apparently we were able to claim our funds were savings from the previous year and we would have been able to avoid taxes legally. BUT.... they never questioned us, never even mentioned it. The new changes may close the loophole but there would need to be another far more radical policy of collecting taxes from expats. So it's not really about the loophole it's about the threat (yes it's a threat) to start taxing expats which are applicable. This has never been tried before and we all know they've done poor planning and have little idea how this will work out. That's why people are saying don't rush out and start asking accountants how to sign yourself up for their great new scheme. Just shut up and stay quiet like you always were and see if this blows past.

This is undeniably racist if you switch the races. He doesn't even call them Scottish but dehumanizes them into a mere color. I'll repost this from my other comment: "Prime minister... BROWN, secretary of state... BROWN.... chief of police...BROWN" Too many brown people in Thailand! See how that sounds? You sound like a lunatic to be in Thailand and be so irate at the amount of brown people.

Part of the process of deracination into the multicultural melting pot is having your ethnic identity stripped from you and becoming merely "white". Before you were a Scottish man, now you're a white man (lowercase "w"!). In America is makes sense to some degree since there's more mixing of whites but in Scotland it's totally unjustified and something I would be pushing back again.