JackGats

No. It's 6 months within 1 fiscal year, not 6 months in a row.

Even if you leave Thailand to settle elsewhere, the LTR gives you the right not to worry about the 30 day-deadline whenever you visit Thailand again.

In that case what will happen to those hailing from a country that has a DTA with Thailand, but who have not been taxed in said country because they are de facto residents of Thailand owing to the time they spend in Thailand? I assume the mere existence of a DTA with Thailand would not get them off the hook. They would have to show taxation did occur.

In the run-up to the election I was nearly called names on this forum for suggesting we had nothing to win in any political change. Rants after rants were posted about "the will of the people". Well, there you are folks! The will of the people. The people need your money after they were promised hand-outs of cash.

Could be worse than that, ie considered and taxed as money earnt (without a working permit) from inside Thailand.

Ridiculous sentence, of which she will lokely serve only one fifth. She should have got life without parole for what she did.

Abuse "victims" own the world. Everyone else is either bankrupt or imprisoned or both.

LTR ("long-term-resident"). There's an active thread on Aseanow about that visa.

Outright theft? Alas no, because that's what most countries do these days, ie tax the world-wide income of tax residents (typically people who live in the country more than 183 days). There are few countries left that do not apply the world-wide income principle. One that I can think of is Uruguay. Some countries taxing world-wide income have special provisions that favour of foreign pensions though (Peru, Colombia, Cyprus, Portugal, ...). As regards Thailand, all will depend on what is meant by "brought into the country" and by "resident". If the provision regarding the seasoning of "savings" continues to apply, it may be business as usual for most. Reading this news I'm glad my LTR visa includes a non-tax clause for anything earnt out of Thailand. It couldn't have come at a better time.

The nasty side of sex: not getting enough of it.

So many people just cannot stop milking the Hitler vs Jews virtue-signalling cow.

Which has been known and repeated and taken as read thousands of time by now, but is neither here nor there. The issue is the Palestinian getting vilified for stating trivialities.

What did he say that was so wrong? He seems to have meant the Jews got exterminated on grounds of social stigma and not on grounds of their religion or because the Jews were hated per se for no reason. Another storm in a tea cup. It would be time for the holocaust watchdogs to stop censoring every statement that doesn't square 100% with their own phraseology.

Thank you for the info. The topic was added sugar though.

Again you must mean "in Thailand". Because the process of making yoghurt doesn't involve sugar. Google "yoghurt how to make". Not the same as making beer.

Surely you mean "all yoghurts in Thailand". Any supermarket in Europe stocks several brands of yoghurts without sugar and the labelling is clear. The taste is a challenge if you're accustomed to sugary yoghurt. Breakfasts in European hotels will feature at least one bulk yoghurt where it says something like "nature", which means nothing added. One or two other yoghurts will be available but even they will not be revoltingly sweet. They will mostly be with added fruits (like cherry) which of course contain some form of sugar by themselves. Their texture will be much like the "Greek" yoghurt sold at a gold prices at Tops or Villa Market. EU countries have been waging a low-key war on added sugar for decades now, with mixed results. Thailand has not even begun yet.

Difficult to tell since they are so overloaded with sugar you cannot taste any real yoghurt (slightly bitter) aftertaste. However, their texture alone is suspicious. They have the oily texture of face lotion or shower gel. P.S. Sugar should be the big issue in Thailand, not crystal meth. Sugar is the elephant in the room. Meth is the mouse everyone wants to be chasing around the room.

A major downside of living in Thailand. Sugar in everything, even in "salty" food (salt mixed with sugar and/or chillies for maximum addiction). Fake yogurts (milk of sorts, with a thickener and plenty of sugar). Meat skewers dabbed with sugar sauce. Even breakfast buffets in good hotels seldom have sweeteners available (deemed too expensive I guess).

90% of the population in the US has sugar-and-fat use disorder. This includes symptoms like pork-bloating, developing fat bulges around the waist and neck, wheezing, having to walk with a perambulator, diabetes, impotence, heart failure, early death.

Not all apps work with OTPs (sms-TANs). When they do it is probably safer to have the sim on another phone as the likelihood that someone hacks both your devices is small. This also applies to emails (use for example gmail on one phone and get recovery OTPs on another). The trend now is for banking apps safety to rely solely on the biometrics of the phone.

Yes, relearning science, or even learning it for the first time if you never did before, is a nice way to keep those brain cells in shape. I regret not doing it as intensely as I used to owing to learning Thai guzzling so much of my free time. I try to practice Thai listening using science courses so as to kill two birds with one stone. Suitable vids are not easy to find as most have disturbing background music.

At least here they write "16-year old student", not "16-year old child" like they do in the paedohysteric West.

Stay slim? Do they? Compared to the US maybe. Not compared to western Europe. I'm talking about the younger Thai generation. Lots of fatsos nowadays.

This is what I get when I try to upgrade a Star Alliance flight with Royal Orchid miles. When I wrote to them about it they replied with all sorts of arguments about classes and unavailability.

It is now an airline to avoid. I wish I had switched to Miles & More back then instead of believing in the Thai Airways myth.