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  1. John Drake
    You will need to click on the link for the complete story. It's towards the bottom, there.
  2. John Drake
    I have to pay out of my own pocket to repair the sidewalk outside my house.
  3. John Drake
    Yes, you need to export a lot more. Need much more weakness in the baht.
  4. John Drake
    I certainly hope this puts an end to his recommendations for the government to increase immigration income/money in the bank for retirement extensions.
  5. John Drake
    There really is no need for people to constantly bring up comparisons to the US and the UK. It's tiresome and off topic. This is Thailand. You don't need to see everything through American/British glasses.
  6. John Drake
    Singapore.
  7. John Drake
    This is some funny stuff. I remember when similar instances took place under Yingluck. Police arrived and "negotiated" with suspects, giving them plenty of time to dispose of any evidence. Not saying this is true of BJ. As we all know, this guy is super clean and a credit to the force. Everybody on AN tells me so. So it must be true. BTW "he'll be back."
  8. John Drake
    Srettha apparently says "yes" to everything, and then needs to walk it back as soon as the calamity becomes obvious. It will happen with this, too.
  9. John Drake
    I think this tax "reform" will be reversed. Look how much of what Srettha promised and said has been reversed. Even this morning he denied the Thaksin as advisor proposal.
  10. John Drake
    Give that movie an Academy Award
  11. John Drake
    555
  12. John Drake
    There seem to be a few people posting "worst case scenarios" over and over. Starting to wonder if there are some vested interests at work. People leaving links to tax firms' advertisements already popping up too. I certainly don't know how this will play out. Whichever way it goes, it's not a ringing endorsement for the new government, which looks haphazard and desperate.
  13. John Drake
    I'll go further. What of the people who were celebrating getting rid of Prayuth--at any price?
  14. John Drake
    This topic has generated the most intense immigration doom porn since the health insurance requirements during covid.
  15. John Drake
    From what I've seen in the past, Immigration doesn't like other departments encroaching on their turf or causing them more work. They might fight the imposition of tax documentation into their rules, (which also need to be certified by legislative acts, don't they?), and be something they will resist more than we do.
  16. John Drake
    My tax office isn't too far away. I haven't got anything else to do. So, if the time comes when I need to prove no tax payment, I will be the one doing the delaying, scheduling, and endlessly explaining. I will spend days, even weeks, getting the tax people to detail, examine, refer, cite, and detail my return. I'll clog up their system.
  17. John Drake
    At least he didn't threaten to tax our overseas savings and pensions.
  18. John Drake
    What happens if village stores sign up for this wallet idea, give out the goods, accept the digital payment, and then the government fails to reimburse 6 months later as promised because, well, you know, no money and they've already established the fact that you shouldn't trust their word or their promises?
  19. John Drake
    Everybody else is getting screwed over by this government, so it's only right that the marijuana people get their toy taken away too.
  20. John Drake
    Prayuth was better.
  21. John Drake
    Seems a little unclear to me. Is this article saying that Chinese police will now be co-policing the Thai border and influencing immigration?
  22. John Drake
    This guy has already reversed his campaign promises and laughed them off saying it doesn't matter. Could do the same thing with this tax policy too.
  23. John Drake
    What might happen instead is someone with a bankroll will give, say, 8000 baht in cash now in return for the 10,000 from the wallet to be paid in six months.
  24. John Drake
    I talked seven years ago with a US representative selling helicopters. He said he simply couldn't book an order here because of the bribes necessary. The US has laws forbidding paying bribes for overseas business and the punishments are apparently quite severe. He said everyone else was passing out bribes left and right. He had no chance.
  25. John Drake
    Yes. Why would US firms come to Thailand, where Chinese businesses are given a preference and Chinese nationals are allowed to flood the work environment while effectively ignoring the restrictions put on Western companies and their employees?

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