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Geir Rasch

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  1. Normally I understand the need for protection, but when it comes til thai fish, which is an inferior product, Thailand need salmon and cod from EFTA. May be not for the economic, but for the sake of health!
  2. You are right: discrimination and xenophobia exist all over the world, but that does not mean it is ok. I find it disgusting.
  3. I think it is thai country songs. Very common in isan.
  4. And no thai take to the street like they did in Phuket against the Swiss man. Another proof of thai racism. Deport unpleasant foreigner, but do nothing to stop thai from killing thais and foreigners in traffic.
  5. I would like that all people, national or non-national, be treated the same. Every thing else is racism.
  6. If he was a thai this would never reach the media. But a farang: kill, kill!
  7. How about self employd people. How can they control that their tax report are correct? It should be a problem that many million thai never pay income tax.
  8. We saw what happened to the Red Bull heir. I think that tell us all about that kind of people. Sure they can act nice, but I think they see them self as above the law.
  9. In a capitalist world money has always been the definition of upper class. If you are rich then no questions asked.
  10. You are a funny person. Here we have a discussion about tax, and from that you feel competent to analyse my personality!! Well, I think there is a word that describe such people. Have you heard about the Dunning-Kruger effect? You said earlier that you did know that Thailand did not tax your pension, but now they have changed the laws. This tells me you are ignorant about tax laws in Thailand. If you ever har read information from Thai Revenue dept, you would know that if you are thai resident (lived here 180 days or more within a tax year) you are obliged to pay tax to Thailand for the pension you bring in to Thailand. That was the law when you first came here, and it still is the law. Nothing new about that! Every year they make a document in English that describe every post in the tax document ( ภ.ง.ด.91) to declare your taxable income. Another thing is how hard thai revenue dept work to get those tax money. We know that many thai pensioners do not pay tax to Thailand. Many of them because their pension are to low, but others are simply not followed up by the revenue dept. That is the reason for not following up on expat either. I once ask people at revenue dept why they did not follow up on us expat. The answer was that since they don't do that with thai pensioners, they could not be stricter with expats. So there is nothing new about laws that concerns our tax liability, the only thing new is a possible stricter practice.
  11. This subject I have written quite some lines about. If you had read any of those you would not ask me what I think a double tax avoidance agreement between governments means :).
  12. I’m not ignorant about anything in Thailand. There are things I don’t like and things I think is stupid, but it is not my country and accept that I have no say in any matter. Like you I retire in Thailand. I have only lived here for 12 years, but all the years I have lived here I have been aware of thai tax law and paid my tax to Thailand. Yes, like you I find 90 day reporting, double standards and dual prising annoying, but I do not spend energy on those issues. This is a third world country, so there are a lot of issues that is strange for us, but normal for them, so be it! I thing both you and Thailand would be better of if you went back home to us. To much for you to cope with here.
  13. Everybody that make enough money pay tax to the country they live in. We, as expats, also pay tax to our country of origin. This is the way it must be. How much money you spend on other things is irrelevant to tax.
  14. You asked in a post about being offended or insulted by being told to pay tax to Thailand. I wonder, how can one be offended or insulted when told to pay tax to the country you live in? I understand there is no profit for you paying tax to Thailand, only extra paperwork, but you live here by your own free will. Do you feel yourself so important to Thailand that it is insulting to ask you to pay tax?
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