JackGats

If the Hollywood film industry wants to make Snow White movies with a black actress as Snow White, even 500% tariffs will not save it.

Check into a hotel where you want to get the COR from. The hotel will give you a letter with which you go to immigration. The hotel is where you live/reside.

Maybe it doesn't apply to Postpaid users?

If you go into your AIS app, click on profile, you will see "Update Prepaid SIM user". It will ask you to scan your passport and your face. I assume this is it.

Maybe because as soon as launched such visas get undercut by cheaper more accessible versions, like the Destination Thailand Visa (DTV).

Really? Europe have ensured a steady predictable supply of weaponry to Ukraine. Not a stop-and-go supply with all kinds of strings attached and blackmail. Contrary to what Trump said this is America's war. America organized the blowing up of the German pipeline so that Europe would have to buy US natural gas at extortionate prices.

Belgians, Frenchmen ... named Mustafa, Mohammed, Mehdi, .... No comment.

I am filing online but I had to go to the TRD since my online eFiling account had been hijacked (no more access, OTP phone number no longer my phone number). Someone had taken over my eFiling account. TRD couldn't tell me what had happened with my account but they did a reset. They had too since I showed up in person with my passport and my TIN. After that I went up to 4th floor at the desk for dividend tax refund. I showed them my single remittance for the year. I was asked about my foreign income and was told it was to be taxed in Thailand! No wonder you "didn't quite understand". I didn't understand either and still don't. I was expecting none of this. I may go there next week and change my request from "I want a refund of dividend tax paid in excess" to "I don't want a refund of dividend tax paid in excess" (see screenshot below). See if that changes anything. The initial filing by the "tax agency" was a catastrophe. Wrong form. Wrong numbers. I can't explain more. They would be the ones having to do the explaining. How could you be a tax-filing agency and do such idiocies? I don't know. I don't put it pass the tax agency to have taken over my eFiling account as they initally had access and maybe some kind of power of attorney on account of my contract with them. After I canceled the relationship with the tax agency I changed the password and the phone number of course. Question: how can you take over an account after the password and the phone number attached to it were changed? And to what purpose? Vengeance? If said tax agency can show up any time at TRD and take over my filing account, I'm not out of the woods. My mistake for relying on a tax agent.

Let me guess, they'll issue drone permits with two prices, 200 for Thais and 2000 for foreigners.

Why "working for now"? Do you think men in the US couldn't do with some drugs and prostitution for a change? Instead of needing to travel half way round the world to get them?

When I read "cannabis concerns" I suspect the news is news manufactured for the sake of sensationalism. What kind of turist will complain about one in ten Indian tailor shops being replaced by a cannabis shop? Maybe I'm optimistic about tourists. Maybe they're dumb enough to complain about that.

What accountant then? I initially entrusted my tax filing to a well-know tax agency which I don't want to mention here. They're well-known and advertise here often. The result was appalling. They wanted to file my revenue under "salary" although I only earn dividends and don't work in TH, they applied the wrong age allowance (as though I was already over 65 which I wasn't), they filled in fantasy amounts I couldn't think where they got them from. They came up with 7K baht tax due although I'm entitled to 25k tax refund. A pig's breakfast. My case was straightforward: only Thai dividends on which I'd pay a 10% withholding tax from which I was entitled a substantial refund give the highish amount those withholding taxes amounted to. The rest was tax-free as per LTR. Now if you mean the TRD has kick-back agreements with the "accountants/agencies" much like IMO has kick-back agreements with visa agencies, you may be right. I'd actually love to spend less than 180 days in TH (and more days in my beloved Jakarta). I was hanging out 180 days and filing taxes in the hope of getting some legit tax residency certificate.

Let me tell the story from the beginning. Yesterday I found I couldn't access my eFiling account any more. It said "credentials wrong". Now I'd written down the password and the user name was my TIN number, so no room for error on my part. As a test I clicked the "forget password" tab. What I got was an OTP but lo and behold, the system wanted to send the OPT to a phone number totally unknown to me. What could have happened? Did the tax agency which I send packing take over my eFiling account again? Out of spite? Or did the eFiling system simply cock-up? They couldn't tell me what happen when I visited today at Jomtien TRD but they were were kind and helpful. My eFiling account was reset with my own password and my own phone number. I hope it stays that way. I don't want my tax ID to be run by some Russians. That's the good news of the day, one problem solved, now comes the bad news. I was referred to floor 4 for the refund on my dividend tax. They were not uncooperative beside sending me to do copies of my passport and bring a more legible copy of my dividend withholding tax summary (the doc from TSD). After that another officer came to me and said this is not enough, we need copies of all your foreign revenues. I politely produced a thai version of the Royal Decree exempting me from any Thai tax on my foreign income, including remitted one. She didn't outright dismiss the Royal Decree, only saying ใช่, but it was obvious she didn't want to go into it. I then asked what I thought was a clear question in Thai: แล้วก็เงินที่อยู่ในประเทศเยอรมันโดนภาษีที่ไทยด้วยไหม (and does the money that is in Germany also get taxed in Thailand?) Her answer was a positive-sounding ใช่. So there it was, I'd come for over 1K euros in dividend refund and I found myself hit with tax on my worldwide income. Of course there's the chance that they only wanted my worldwide revenue as info. But I thought they'd get that from CRS. Wasn't that what CRS was for? Anyway, I'll let the matter hang. No way I'm going to declare 100k USD foreign income only to get hit with a 30K tax invoice which I would then have to fight through the courts. I did my minimal duty this year by actually filing taxes, even if it led nowhere. What I was after was less the dividend refund than the possibility of eventually getting a tax residence certificate (R.0.22). Not much hope of that now after today's experience. I may send a small summary of my case to the BOI but I'm not sure complaining to one Thai dpt about another Thai dept does anything else thand raise even more bad blood on all sides. I'l take things into my own hands and henceforward spend < 180 days/year in Thailand, period.

Ivermectin is not listed in the treatments for this disease. Treatment necessitates heavy-duty medications.

Except for type 4: "For DENV4, cases numbered only 3 among seropositive subjects and 1 in seronegative subjects in the placebo group, compared to none in the vaccine group. This did not provide adequate power to estimate efficacy against DENV4 stratified by baseline serostatus"

Unless you can get OTPs on your Thai mobile number?

I'm not surprised. Acquaintance of mine converted 30k euro worth of crypto into euros through transfer to his EU bank account. He'd given warning to the bank through his usual contact at the bank where he was well known and had been banking for 30 years. All the same, his account was rescinded overnight, no explanation given. They (banks, governments) don't want us to do crypto. Soon the only way will be to own private wallets, buy crypto from one another, never convert to fiat, pay only trustworthy merchands (eg porn website, escort girls, drug dealers) with crypto. If you have crypto on a crypto exchange, it's high time to transfer the lot to a private wallet IMO. The OP doesn't say from which crypto exchange he bought. From what I understand some exchanges are considered more legit than others. On the other hand, this might be a Thailand thing.

I've had more vaccines than you've had hot dinners. I should be long dead by now.

No, I wouldn't have said the same of course. Male sexual consent is worth nothing. Male prostitution is seldom an issue, even in the US. Pussy is what everyone gets hot under the collar about. I don't understand what "young enough to be my Great Granddaughters" has to to with the topic. I'm sure zillions of women are young enough to be my Great Grandaughters. It's not their fault, they'll get over it.

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What I'd like to know is the following: is the high protection (80%) against hospitalisation also valid for seronegative individuals, or does this figure conflate seronegatives with seropositives? If the vaccine does nothing to protect seronegatives from severe illness, or puts them at slightly more risks than non-vaccinated, better wait till you've had dengue once before getting vaccinated.

Sonetel might be worth looking at:

It's an unrewarding language to learn. The time you spend (waste) on learning Thai is time you could spend on lots on more rewarding things. I still can't follow the news headlines in Thai or read a Thai newspaper unaided after learning Thai for 5 years. The reason is 1) I'm getting older and my memory is no longer what it was 2) Thais don't answer me back in Thai never mind how better my Thai is compared to their "English".

I don't remember taking any test when I got my driving licence renewed. Did it through an agency though. It was just a question of getting photographed. Anyway, what does "digitally" mean here? If you have to travel down to the Dpt anyway to get photographed, it doesn't change much whether you need to take a test or two (or watch a video).

It seems now the Qdenga vaccine gets recommended by many countries even for seronegatives. Many countries still recommend against it for seronegatives though: https://academic.oup.com/jtm/article/32/3/taaf023/8064715 According to ChatGPT the vaccine affords low protection (something like 40%) against infection, but high protection (80%) against hospitalisation. This is reminiscent of the Covid vaccines (please no rant about the Covid vaccines!) I'm still sitting on the fence.