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This topic can go on forever.

One Question. Going by a popular notion that the 'tax rules are already on/in the book'. If by those rules I do not owe any taxes, do I still have to file a tax return?

Thanks
 

3 minutes ago, Celsius said:

When are they leaving?

DeNiro said he was going to leave if Trump was elected? Any links on that or wishful posting? 

Only thing I could find was Robert De Niro saying 'Trump would never leave office if elected for a second term'. Sounds ominous. 

Wasn't Hulk Hogan on the Diddy list?
 

Wait, my bad, that was the Bubba Love Sponge list. 

Last month I tried to transfer 5K USD - 7 days. I was able to stop the transfer. I then did 1k, in seconds and again, but tried the last 3K as one transfer. That 4 days. I should note after the above I then had my usual 1k amount came up with a 7  day time estimate when I transferred. It got here in 5 - yippee skippy.

As I was about to send over a much larger amount. I needed a date up front. No real answers, after an e mail conversation with them. I ended up doing a wire transfer from my US Bank to Bangkok Bank. And if I had to transfer a larger amount again that would be the way I would go, not through WISE. Although obviously WISE would be cheaper. 

I've used them for 5 years. Great service. Now, could be here in seconds or days. No clue as to why.





 

5 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Dream on. I have no intention of being gracious, after 4 years of abuse from Biden/ Harris supporters.

I doubt many poster here thought different. Fascists do what fascists got to do. Its part of their nature. 

I reckon Putin will get the first go at Uncle Sam. Bend over and pound. Then Celestial Emperor Xi will want his turn. All the while Donald proclaims, Peace in our Time.

It's what the people want. Hope they enjoy the show.

On 10/30/2024 at 10:37 PM, connda said:

In WA State, Expats can download and print out an individualize ballot package (WA has a voter portal to do this), fill it out, and either fax or email back to your county elections office.

Glad to help a WA state voter. You are a WA state voter?! Or just a right wing woofer, who cuts & pastes others info., as you have little knowledge of the USA, and/or too lazy to find out yourself.

Sad, but common these days.

On 11/2/2024 at 3:35 AM, Social Media said:

Based on a report by Newsweek 2024-11-02

Newsweek, essentially a right wing shill today. Perhaps a presidential candidate can negotiate and with a bit of give and take to defuse the crisis, that Newsweek claims exists, but doesn't. Perhaps giving Ukraine to Prince Vlad Putin. Dismantling NATO, then proclaiming 'Peace in our Time" 

What will right wing shills will come up with next. Giving Taiwan to Celestial Ruler Xi?!

 

Only article on CNN that I could find was 
Trump’s plan to radically remake government with RFK Jr. and Elon Musk is coming into view

Nothing about gaining power or traction ... in fact a highly sobering account of tearing up of checks and balances in the US. Amazing what AI rewriting can do. 

13 minutes ago, Talon said:

Arab Americans support Trump because of his focus on Peace and Prosperity and not bombs and wars.

Almost get the idea that US troops invaded the Ukraine, or attacked Gaza, but no. Only US troops in action are a result of invading Iraq, and destabilizing an entire region. Just another Republican air head did that. 

50 minutes ago, Eudaimonia said:

My take: This article is mostly about citizenship, not taxation, so this part is likely to be the journalist's own (and possibly incorrect) interpretation rather than something actually communicated by the government spokesman.

I agree. However this article, plus the links in it, to older Thai Examiner articles about expat tax, could cause our resident TAX expert shop talkers heads to explode. With luck they will never know this article & the others, exist. A potential nightmare has been averted on Hallows Eve.

Not sure if this qualifies for what people think online voting is. State of Washington; you can download your ballot, must be printed out. You can then, fill it out and mail it in, if you so desire. However you can also take pictures of it, with your phone, all the pages. And e mail those in.  I assume it is statewide, but do not know for sure. It may be the county you are registered to vote in. Note - This must be set up beforehand, designating you as an absentee/overseas voter. 

 

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Thankfully this kind of nonsense is relatively rare in Thailand, I am from the US and we have a mass shooting there nearly every day. Americans absolutely adore their guns and their violence. 

Appreciate your opinions gun violence in the USA, but this is Pattaya. Unless things have changed dramatically, that city is in Thailand. Still kudos for the first 'whataboutery' post on the OP.

On 10/26/2024 at 10:03 AM, CMBob said:

Thanks for the information.  Would note:

(1)  For all my extensions based on retirement here in CM (being 14 so far), I've always got the bank letter and necessary copies the day before I show up to get the annual renewal.  I only mention this as you seem to suggest that the bank stuff has to be dated the day of application but it's never been a requirement for me or others I know. 

(2)  I've given them a copy of my TM30 Receipt of Notification and my rental agreement for all 14 annual renewals and wasn't aware that they didn't need a copy of my lease; in any event, they've never given any of the documents back. 

(3)  As suspected, not a huge percentage of annual extensions involve appointments....given there aren't all that many appointment slots available.  I'm doubtful agents are getting the slots as their clients don't even sit in the main office awaiting their appointment times like us commoners do (agents take their clients to a separate back office for immediate service with their buddy Immigration Officer).  But I do know at least one person here in CM who gets multiple time slots for every annual extension, saying he does this in case he's unable or disinclined to go the first or second dates) (that's just unreasonably hogging a precious resource and I wish Immigration would fix their software so one person cannot get multiple appointments for the same thing).

1) I was specifically concerned, I would be forced to make another deposit, chunk it in the Bank passbook, then make a copy of it, and bring that on the next day when I had my appointment. It was the person at the outside window next to me, who was in a panic about having to get a new Bank letter regarding his balance. The one that you can do in ten minutes or so, at the bank. Truthfully, I do not know how long it is good for but he seemed convinced that was his last day. However, and what I thought pertinent; the check in person at the outside kiosk, stated, ‘if you are pushed over onto the next day, the date he writes on your TM7, is what they go by. Any letter, copy, bank transaction, etc. that is valid on that date, is valid the next day’. 

2) I too have always brought a rental agreement. That said I was told I do not need it four different times and it was taken out of my document stack three times. Why I would reinsert the rental agreement document into the stack after being repeatedly told, first by the help assistant, twice by people in the outside kiosk, day one & two, and finally inside at the extension desk, does require an explanation. I have a high degree of distrust about what they say and do at Chiang Mai immigration. That because of personal experience. I just kept putting it back in my stack. As I stated above, they say now you do not need it and it was pulled. Still, while I mention what was told to me, I will bring a copy next year. I’m just repeating here, for general info, what was said Oct. 17 & 18 of this year. Again I have zero trust in CM IO. 

3) Please excuse the high degree of cynicism. Agents, indeed, do not need to use the online appointment system. However, if agents make it more difficult to get an online appointment, this may very well increase their own business. 

 

Thanks to posters above. 

I walked in a week back, it was a four day week. I was shunted over to the next day, papers checked at the outside stall, they will write a date and ok you (on your tm7 front page) for the next day. With this you do NOT have to get a NEW Thai Bank letter statement of current balance, or make a deposit and then print out of bankbook last page again.  Just turn up next day at 8 AM, put your papers in the tray outside and get in the que call to get a number, when it starts at 830. Then go inside. 30 tickets filled the morning slot. They do a 12 to 1 lunch break.

The only real difference from last year; both the outside checkers, and inside, said, you did not need a rental (residence) agreement copy. They have wanted that in the past. TM30  supplanting that. Still until they state that explicitly, up 2 U. CM immigration has a reputation for asking for that copy you do not have. 

Easily three quarters of the people, did not have an appointment made by the online system, likely more. There is a current OP on a local CM Facebook site, complaining about the online appointment system, and how nobody is getting one. I'm thinking agents are getting them, but who knows. 

12 posts Bday

Obsessed with a holiday few in Thailand celebrate, or too much coffee?

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

In my opinion that's exactly the opposite here. I think most Thai women prefer it if a man behaves like a man, if he takes control, and if the pilots the ship of the relationship. However if he's a wimp coming from the West

This seems to be a popular notion here on Thaivisa, uh, er, AN. Act Like A Man! or she will romp all over you. I'm sure it happens, you know, to wussy boys who marry bar girls. Still lots of Thai women appreciate westerners as mates because, among other reasons,  they do not belt seven bells a heck out of them, or move karaoke singers into the house, and kick them out, after literally kicking them. Both of which happened to some Thai women I know.

I'm sure this is not what you mean, but for some, western airheads, it needs to be stated explicitly. 



 

9 hours ago, JimTripper said:

I saw a movie there back in 2005 called 'An American Haunting'. I remember it being a private screening. There was nobody else in the entire theater. My Thai Gf hated the movie so we left in the middle.

Gotta quit posting by phone  - I don't see the complete post.

 I saw a film there in 03 ? Only ones I can recall are Return of the King, or Terminator from that year which does not seem like movies that theater would have, but yeah, been there done that.  

You caught it on its last legs, it had to be closed soon after 05. 

2 hours ago, JimTripper said:

Isn't there still an old school cinema right across the street from Kad Suan Kaew in that complex of buildings?

There was a cinema across Huey Kaew RD from the entrance of Kad Suan Kaew. That was donkeys years ago. The area was rebuilt and cinema was taken out 20 years back ?? 

On 10/19/2024 at 8:44 AM, rwill said:

Anyway, don't worry she will be back when the money runs out.

I hope that is the case. There is another possibility. 

26 minutes ago, impulse said:

Online sales is a big factor, but crime is (IMO) just as big.  Between fear of being mugged and "shrinkage", brick and mortar is doomed by crime alone.  I blame that on the Ferguson effect.

That is because you are a right winger and part of that food chain. Bartell's, mentioned above, was blamed by our resident state right wingnuts as having torn up shelves with stock gone, on, your guessed it, CRIME. Shop lifting squads you see on FOX news. Turns out RITE AID who bought BARTELL's would not stock all of what Bartell's used to carry. They had not removed the shelves. Halved the staff, mainly checkers were left. So it did look like junk six months to a year before they closed them up, as they went into that final death spiral. Nothing to do with crime or the "Ferguson effect", no shoppers were stopped then shot to death by police. Rest easy gentle poster

Mom, alive & pretty spry in her 90's, never had to fight off muggers or smash & grab thieves; Shock, Gasp Horror. She is however plenty PO'd with Rite Aid.