JackGats

Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean the Belgian bank sent the CRS report to Thailand? Normally this is done automatically if the Belgian bank has you down as residing in Thailand and if you provided the Belgian bank with your Thai TIN. It is automatic with no need for Thailand to "ask" for it.

Maybe the person you call an idiot needs a tax return to show to the tax man or the bank back home should they ask. A nil tax return is not such a bad proposition.

You mean "should I tell my friend that his now girlfriend was my lover before he got his operation".

I once bought a TAP flight (for someone else) on Trip dot com. I was impressed. I got very frequent reports about the status of the flight (check-in open, boarding at gate X, flight departed, flight landed). I had never been so fully informed about the flights I booked for myself direct from airlines. P.S. I was notified by Trip dot com, not by the airline. In order to get notifications you may have to run the app on your smartphone, even if you booked through the browser. Why book through Trip dot com and not directly from TAP? Because TAP didn't know me yet and I was in a hurry. Had I tried to book direct on the TAP website, who knows what hitches there could've been (credit card rejected, addresses in wrong format etc.). As it was, since Trip dot com knew me and my credit card already, all I needed to supply was the data of the person I was buying the ticket for.

I am an LTR holder but I want to file taxes for 2024 on the basis of the dividends I earn from my Thai broker's account. Has anyone any knowledge of an agency who could file taxes for me in such a simple case. No need to file remittances, no need to mess with DTAs, just the Thai dividends + a cover letter explaining I have an LTR and am thus exempted from taxes on my foreign income as per Royal Decree. I don't want an agency that tells me "you don't owe any tax so no need to file". I want to file and get a tax assessment notice, if only one that says "no tax owed".

My fear is that the Thais would reply to the CRS report: "Please don't send us CRS reports about this person as he/she is not a taxpayer in Thailand". Thus the CRS can be a formidable weapon to expose individuals who pay taxes nowhere. Whether Thailand is already advanced enough in its commitment to the CRS to send such feedbacks is an open question.

Indeed the problem lies not with RD's but with banks. It's banks we mostly have to deal with, not RD's. Would we be committing a crime if we gave a Thai TIN to an offshore bank or broker while at the end of the day staying in TH under 180 days? Good question.

Indeed this tie-breaker aspect is reiterated on this webpage (in German, search for ""Staatsbürgerschaft steuerpflichtig"): https://staatenlos.ch/lifestyle/7-irrtuemer-der-steuerpflicht-in-deutschland/

In my opinion what he was doing was legal, in that he couldn't be charged with tax evasion. However, he could be claimed as a taxpayer by some other country, like his country of citizenship or the country where he was banking. It would be a civil lawsuit, not a criminal one.

Not if you live in hotels or very short-term rentals anyway, like I do.

"Why do unemployed greasy little Thai men always get the hot girls?" They don't. Young two-week millionaires from Korea do.

I have another related query: can I skip the curing stage if the buds are destined for decarboxylation at high temperature? I mean dry then decarboxylate, instead of dry, cure and only then decarboxylate. The curing stage looks to me like some kind of pre-decarboxylation anyway.

With the expansion of the universe, everything is getting bigger, including women.

What is an "ethnic child"? Do ethnic children grow into ethnic adults? Can you die an ethnic man? Be buried in an ethnic grave?

That's exactly what they do and it's well-known. Paracetamol is frequently added as a deterrent to abuse, for example dextrometorphane + paracetamol, in order to prevent people from tripping on dextrometorphane (a cough suppressant). Knowledgeable users/abusers will first extract the paracetamol through a process called "cold extraction". The war on drugs doesn't give a rat's ass about hundreds of thousand deaths in Mexico, you bet it doesn't either about a few thousand of people dying of liver failure following paracetamol poisoning. Staying clean is more important than staying alive. Note that some tablets, like the delayed release oxycodone, cannot be split nor crushed. If you bang with a hammer on the delayed release oxycodone, the tablets flatten like a chewing gum rather than disintegrate. This is to prevent turning the delayed release tablets into immediate release one that can give you a buzz.

The manufacturer wants to prevent abuse. I bet the acetaminophen/paracetamol is only included as a deterrent to abuse. Acetaminophen is lethal at high doses.

As for me, I don't bang people on the head with my degrees too much. They might wear out.

Kratom was legalized in Thailand as an alternative to methadone. Switching from Tramadol to Kratom might be like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire though.

For once the hotel's response was sensible. I guess here the "condescending" tone was the issue. Condescension though does not harm the planet (or anyone except snowflakes). A new toothbrush every day, on the other hand, is a total waste.

"... resulted in the seizure of 0.88 grams of cocaine." Under zero tolerance, the police can confiscate 999 grams and resell them, while still sending the guy to jail for 1 gram. That's why some countries have zero tolerance in place.

One thing I found that helps is eating less. I found that out when I did my Covid quarantine in Bangkok. I was kept slightly hungry all the time because I could not go out and eat as much as I wanted. One consequence was that I was hardly farting at all.

For a second I thought this topic was about masturbation.

If you look at the movie adaptations of great novels, like Dickens', the good adaptations are the older, black-and-white ones. The more recent ones pale in comparison. They butcher the plot and miss the spirit. The same applies to radio dramatizations. Present-day radio dramatizations feel like they were done by people who didn't bother to read the book, or who were hostile to it.

Not what I was asking but thanks for pointing me to decarboxylators. I didn't know there existed dedicated contraptions to decarboxylate herbs.

If I get it right you must first dry your stuff before decarboxylating. You can't put fresh non-dried buds into the oven at 110°C, otherwise they would kind of stew in their own water. The recommendation is to hang the harvested autoflower bush to dry for weeks on end at room temperature. Why so long? I own a kitchen dehydrator like the ones for drying mushrooms, vegetable and herbs. Couldn't it be just the ticket to dry my buds? For herbs they recommend drying for 4 to 6 hours at 40°C. Would that do the trick for weed?