JackGats

Note how in Thailand an additional layer of damaging crap, ie caffeine, is added to the methamphetamine. As though methamphetamine were not sympathomimetic enough on its own. As far as I know the meth/speed consumed in other countries only contains methamphetamine as the active ingredient. Besides, if methamphetamine is a social evil in Thailand, what about caffeine? If you die of a heart attack from Yaba, do you die from the methamphetamine or from the caffeine? What about the coffee shops sprouting up everywhere in Thailand? What about caffeinated drinks that hook people by combining two addictive substances: sugar and caffeine? The yaba epidemics is bad but I guess the caffeine epidemics is no longer an epidemics as 90% of the population are hooked on it anyway. If you want to rant against drugs you need to wear a good pair of blinders/blinkers.

Duplicate. Tricked again.

Why can't the Burmese manufacture xstasy instead? Xstasy: there, at least, is a drug that has something to it. Yaba is zero euphoria. Sky-high blood-pressure. Sleeplessnes. Meth dick. Of course xstasy has low addiction potential. One consequence of the war on drugs is that the lousier a drug, the more widespread it gets.

Filing taxes and paying taxes are 2 different things. It might be useful to be able to show the taxman back home you filed taxes in Thailand.

This is a question owners of an LTR visa will love to get an answer to by the beginning of next year.

Ok then I think PIN = TIN. Give your PIN to UBS saying it's your Thai TIN. I heard a similar story but the reverse, namely it could work to use one's Thai TIN instead of the Pink Card number, in case one had a TIN but no Pink Card.

I don't know what a PIN is. Is it the swiss taxpayer's number? The TIN is the internationaly recognized format. National taxpayer's numbers have digits that overlap with the TIN. The Thai TIN has 13 digits I think.

Because a TIN is for the CRS or FACTA. Bank data can be exchanged regardless of whether you pay tax. Some banks in Europe seem to make offshore resident status conditional on showing a TIN from the country you say you reside in. A TIN is also required on any W-8BEN form, in case you own US shares.

I think UBS couldn't care less about your LTR visa or the tax exemption that goes with it. Go and get a Thai TIN asap. It will be useful not just this time with UBS. P.S. Show the Thais the letter you got from UBS. They'll understand you need a TIN and will give you one. I got one after I said I needed one to open an account in Europe. I got one on the spot. It took 20 minutes.

You should have told them you needed a TIN to open a bank account in Germany (or Spain or Croatia or ...). I bet they'd have issued you with one there and then.

I cut down on baked beans after seeing on the label how much SUGAR they contained. All the same, food in Thailand is not that great. With less Farangs compared to Asians coming to Thailand, the availability of Western food has tended to worsen. Baked beans and bacon are rare in hotel breakfasts these days.

Why should they be? Thai men knock-up Thai teenage women, then let foreigners give those women a soft landing and take care of their children when they near menopause.

I once booked Premium Economy on an Air France flight to Africa. Never again! For some reason the seat was more uncomfortable to sleep in than a commmon economy seat. It was shaped so as to make any sleeping posture impossible.

Well, I guess Russians prefer to exchange Bitcoins rather than Rubles right now.

"Cryptocurrency exchange". Does that mean "selling Bitcoins"? Is selling Bitcoins illegal?

When I was a boy I was fascinated by the words "plastic surgery". I didn't know what it meant. I thought it involved plastic.

The money hand-out might be self-correcting in that it will cause the Baht to plummet and the people who got the hand-out will find themselves owning a currency that is worth substantially less. They might lose, not win, purchasing power at the end of the day.

Because of wokeism (feminism, minority rights, diversity, LGBT ...). As a consequence for instance you get scifi and war movies where women are commanding officers. Everybody knows that's not the way Society works. Black-and-white film noirs from the 50s and 60s is what I still watch from time to time plus some western movies, where men are men and women are women.

Ah-ah-ah. A flood of complaints. Police hotlines saturated. Snowflakes, busybodies and professional victims getting on the phone to complain. As you sow you shall reap.

I think airlines have the right to reallocate a seat in case of no-show.

Discriminatory tax laws are legion. Take Belgium with: - a 50-60% income tax on wages and pensions - no wealth tax - 1% VAT only on diamond transactions (Jewish tax-haven in Antwerp) It's difficult to imagine a more <deleted>-up tax system than that but still there are quite a few like it in the first world. The peculiarity with the LTR in TH is that the discrimination is linked to a visa. But even that is not so rare. Until recently Portugal had a 10% tax on foreigner's pensions while taxing their own national pensions at over 30%. Note that the LTR would be self-defeating if it didn't include a tax clause as the aim was to attract big spenders.

My plan is managed by Cigna on behalf of my ex-employer. I sent my query to the same Cigna people who deal with any problems arising out of health-care refunds. I told them what the Thais wanted to read on the certificate, ie "insured for life" and "insured for amount greater than". I explained getting this 10-year visa would be invaluable to me as I would no longer have to renew my visa every year.

Antifeminism, anti-immigration, anti-childtranny ... = hate crime.

Incidentally, in most EU countries the number of days mentioned is 183, not 180. Probably in order to make allowances for flight times.

Interesting. What if you have a late flight? Where are you at midnight? Waiting to board? Most flight I took from Bangkok have been close to midnight.