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The butt-spray: one thing about Thailand I miss everywhere else I go! Sometimes in Europe you find a spray next to the toilet. However the length of tubing is unsufficient to use it as a butt-spray. What is it for then? It's for cleaning the toilet! Unbelievable! Why is there a spray to clean the toilet bowl and none to do the more important job of cleaning your butt? This is when I think the Western mind is not as bright as I thought. I find toilet paper AWFUL.
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Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Thank you for spelling it out: "from an employment, or from business carried on abroad, or from a property ". My foreign income is a pension + capital gains and savings, how does that fit in? Maybe (just maybe) part of it is indirectly "from an employment", but definitely not from business or property! The Royal Decree seems to me like it doesn't just leave out a few things. It leaves out a hell of a lot! A far cry from the LTR hype trumpeting "no taxes on foreign assets/income" -
Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
My saga started with my signing up with a tax-filing agency. Said agency not only ignored my LTR status in their filing draft, but on top of that they wanted to file imaginary amounts that matched neither remittance nor dividends! After I decided I'd much better file myself, it was an uphill struggle to get that agency to hand over to me the password of my own eFiling account (loss of face you see). The long and the short of it is, I'm in no hurry to get involved with any (tax-filing or law) agency in TH ever again. In TH you "take a lawyer" and before you know it you find youself having to sue your lawyer. As to the Royal decree being Law, yes it is but what Law are we talking about? With the help of a friend who is proficient in Thai, we endeavoured to find out what kind of income the Royal Decree is actually exempting (quite apart from the "following year" charade). Well guess what? It is as clear as mud. A world away from the blanket tax-exemption on foreign income/assets you see plastered all over the Internet. All it would have taken is for the Royal Decree to specify: "foreign income exempted" (with the possible caveat about the following year). It doesn't though, instead it waffles about "assessable income" and such like. -
Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
I did. I "paid" the tax with the dividend refund TRD owed me. Luckily I had only remitted about 12k USD last year. Had I remitted twice or three times that, the dividend refund would only have covered about 1/3rd of the due tax. This year (2025) I'll duck the 180-day mark while availing myself of my non-resident status to transfer more cash. Next year (2026) I'll thus file no taxes but I'll remember to get a "certificate of travel record" for 2025 from IO just in case. As of 2026 my plan is to live off my hoarded cash for 3 or 4 years. Later, if need be, rinse and repeat. I cherish my LTR visa for the immigration hassle it spares me but I now know its much-publicized "tax-exemption of foreign assets" is a non-starter. -
Tourism in Thailand is finished.
JackGats replied to Cornish Pasty's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Acutally, you can also snort it, smoke it, or even plug it (booty bumping). Even with these gentler methods, overdoses are possible. The media like to project the bogeyman image of the syringe-wielding heroin user. -
Tourism in Thailand is finished.
JackGats replied to Cornish Pasty's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Sniffling heroin hey? (sniffling mind you, not sniffing). I see you're an expert in drugs and harm reduction. -
Tourism in Thailand is finished.
JackGats replied to Cornish Pasty's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
I don't think tourism in TH is finished. All that is needed is international flights and hotels. To the new world middle-class any destination is ok, for example Pattaya as a family beach destination. It's a pity some country doesn't run following live experiment: 1) Set up a huge landfill as destination. 2) Build ramschackle woodplank hotels around the landfill. 3) Build an airstrip nearby with a few charter flights from the Indian Subcontinent. 4) Count the families who come for a holiday on and around the landfill. -
Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Good for you if you can make it stick. My LTR visa was ignored (brushed aside) by TRD when I filed taxes and asked for a dividend refund this year, as described here in a dedicated thread some weeks ago. -
Thailand Tax Return and Refund
JackGats replied to John9's topic in Jobs, Economy, Banking, Business, Investments
That's very similar to what I was asked on my eFiling account by TRD. Points 3 and 4 were a bit different in my case. I was asked for proof of tax paid abroad and for proof I had not imported funds into TH. I explained why I couldn't provide 3 and 4 (I wrote it down on a piece of paper, scanned the piece of paper and uploaded that). As I explained in a previous thread, I ended up paying nothing as the tax on my sole remittance and the refund I was entitled to cancelled out, at least according to TRD's back-of-the-envelope calculation. -
Fun Quiz > Covid-19 mRNA Vax harm denial - At which stage are you?
JackGats replied to Red Phoenix's topic in Covid/Vaccine
I think the OP got a rare nasty side-effect from the Covid vaccines. The vaccines affected his brain so that he turned into an anti-vax bot. This is one the most vicious side-effects from covid vaccines known to date. -
What are the women like in Mae Hong Son and Mae Sariang?
JackGats replied to Harrisfan's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
Yeah, I think I remember visiting a "night-club" right next to my hotel. Had a beer there. Two or three desperate MILFs were serving drinks and giving me and my wingman the glad eye. They were nice enough, at the same time bearing testimony to Thailand's inverting age pyramid and depleted night-life. A kind of experience I usually report as "no action". Anyways, isn't the OP's title missing something? As though we Farangs would still have our pick of the local female talent in Thailand. A bunch of outspent and outbid has-beens, that's what we are now. -
What are the women like in Mae Hong Son and Mae Sariang?
JackGats replied to Harrisfan's topic in ASEAN NOW Community Pub
No action in Mae Hong Song. Typical Thai small town, very laid back. -
Report Thailand Tightens Grip on Retirement Visas Amid Wealth Shift
JackGats replied to snoop1130's topic in Thailand News
Well ... yes! -
The red-pill community has long denounced circumcision as male sexual mutilation, and rightly so. I'm not surprised that men should overwhelmingly support their own mutilation while condemning female's though. Men are such white-knighting self-defeating fools. There's no reason to suppose genitalia as per at birth to need "cutting" in the case of men, and not in the case of women. Why should men be born flawed (and not women)?
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Thai lady and Arab woman punch on in Phuket Bangla street brawl.
JackGats replied to MalcolmB's topic in Thai Language
Impossible! Surely it's a fake! Men are violent, not wymmyns! Notice however how the Thais do not join in to kick the foreigner unconscious. That's becoz the foreigner is female. Being kicked unconscious is male privilege.