JackGats

We are lucky Thai babies drink milk too. Otherwise milk would be as expensive as whisky in Thailand.

One Ring to rule them all "What they know doesn't matter". You just inadvertently put your finger on the madness of our time. What they know (and understand and feel and say ....) should matter. It should in fact be what matters most.

I got a TIN free of charge in 20 minutes' time at Chonburi Revenue Office. That was back in 2019.

Bremelanotide has been around for nearly a decade now. It will probably be a non-starter. It is too expensive for a start. It is said to improve both erection (through nitrous oxide) and sexual desire, contrary to classical ED pills like Viagra which only improve erection. But isn't that what Viagra combined with eg cannabis did anyway?

Any sources, or things we can read about this?

Sherrings seem to have changed the last bit on the lower right. The part that says "that is brought into Thailand is deleted). This means worldwide taxation on BC sales for Thai residents.

Do we take the hot women? I thought he Koreans did.

Useful to first learn isolated letters in A FEW different fonts. However the "thaireader" only has "modern font" as alternative to the standard. This "modern font" is essentially the sans serif form of the standard font. Very useful and common but that leaves many common fonts unexplored. A downside of the stories in the thaireader are that they have titles like "The story of the reed and the banyan tree" or "The story of the stork and the fox". Now words like reed, banyan tree, stork and fox can wait for a few years as far as I'm concerned. My memory has no place for them yet. The Aakanee website is down unfortunately, but the texts can be downloaded from the WWW archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20230608222558/http://www.aakanee.com/thai-illustrations.html The recordings and images have been made available on Youtube: I recommend practicing reading the texts while applying different fonts, then listening to the spoken text after each image. Listening and following the written text with the eyes is also good training.

Interesting. This means that for Norwegians an LTR pensioner visa is not that interesting. If you are Norwegians you should instead contrive to get taxed in Thailand at some lowish Thailand rate.

Obviously, but life is not that simple. There are Norwegians who reside in Thailand and get their income neither from Thailand nor Norway, or they do get their income from Norway but free of withholding tax. In theory, it should not be Norway's business if Thailand relinquishes its right to tax, as it has been doing up to 2024 and will go on doing for LTR holders. But apparently Norway sees it as its business to nullify tax privileges awarded by a foreign country. So avoiding double taxation is, alas, not the "whole point" of a tax treaty. Another point is increasingly making sure taxes are paid somewhere. A tax treaty is not always our friend.

Not true. Most countries do this in fact. Your are confusing with paying taxes to your home country even if you don't reside there. That is not the same as paying taxes on your worldwide income in the country of residence.

Not true. Most countries do this in fact. Your are confusing with paying taxes to your home country even if you don't reside there. That is not the same as paying taxes on your worldwide income in the country of residence;

After learning the Thai alphabet there's a long way to go before you can "read Thai". This is because Thai does not really read left to right (nor right to left). It reads back and forth, back and forth ... Many fonts presented as "handwriting fonts" are only typeface fonts trending towards handwriting. The only genuine handwriting font I have been able to download is the "MN Khaochae" :

Except I read that Norway had been collecting taxes from its citizens living in Thailand for years now. The rationale was that if Norwegians residing in Thailand were not ACTUALLY paying taxes to Thailand, they needed to pay them to Norway. I can do without tax treaties of this kind thank you very much.

Recriminalise cannabis while legalising casinos. More undesirable crowds, less fun. I don't like the way things are going.

Wouldn't they simply ask about the earliest applicable tax year? Like if a revenue service requires you to prove you were 183 days in Thailand, this would apply to the already completed calendar year, obviously not to the year not yet ended.

I would assume we have already petitioned our own governments. Not only about cannabis but also about "a balanced approach" to prostitution? Or do we, like many expats, hold Thailand to higher standards than we do our own countries?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13463493/Horrifying-moment-two-British-tourists-viciously-beaten-gang-bouncers-arguing-bill-bar-Thailands-notorious-Pattaya-red-light-city-district.html Quote: " Speaking today, Sergeant Major Arthon from the Pattaya City police station, said that the three security guards have since been warned about their conduct but they have not been arrested or charged. He said: 'The tourist in the video who was attacked has not filed a police report, so we cannot assign an investigating officer. There's no case open until they complain. We've had a look around but can't find them. 'Yes, we're still checking CCTV to see what happened to them. There are rumours that he is in intensive care but we haven't heard anything from hospitals.'"

Imagine the police or security guard doing this to a black man in the US. The whole country would be in turmoil for weeks.

I assume you no longer have your old passport to show the bank. Does your new passport not have an immigration stamp transferred from the old passport where it states the number of the old passport? If the bank takes a look at it, putting 2 and 2 together regarding your driving license should not be difficult.

Replying to my own post in order to include a font page that works even better than the previous one. Here all the fonts seem to be downloadable for free: https://thaifonts.org

So the young are at risk from cannabis. 10 million young Thais riding motorbikes without a helmet or a driving license is ok though.

At 59 minutes, there's a discussion about a so-called mistranslation in the English version of the tax agreement. Now any tax agreement between France and Thailand will be signed in French and Thai only. Only the French and the Thai will be valid. Any translation in any other language will be for information purposes only.

One of the most difficult steps in Thai is getting your head around the many fonts. Thai fonts are not optimized for legibility to say the least. The only way is to open texts in a word processor and apply different fonts. I have had success downloading fonts from the page below. Once you've downloaded the fonts you need to transfer them to the font registry on your device. I use Pages on a MacBook and the whole procedure was not too much of a hassle. https://thaifaces.com/?page=5

I think Thailand should only allow alcohol in public hospitals for medical purposes (wound disinfection).