ChaiyaTH

Is a lot of money for Thais, you know that just as good as me. Aside from the fact there just really is no taxi's in most remote places.

Great idea, now if it rains, and some food oils are around, it will be a ice skating track. Who is gonna break it's neck first?

Seems the most sensible yeah, not sure though, for Thais, to get a long-term visa there. They only get 30 days there too, even Suriname (Netherlands) is a better choice then with beers at 40 baht and 90 days on arrival, no schengen needed, but far away.

Plenty of places as in africa, or a country with drug cartels or like kazachstan? Very few places in reality except if it is nearby here.

You are missing 2 zero's + blacklisting. Up to 200,000 baht fine. The 2000 baht fine is when you paid too late aside of 1.5% interest: that means you did file them too in that case, that is entirely different.

Stay in your little bubble then, meanwhile, developing countries work the way they work, and people keep drinking and driving.

That would not qualify as the same, people were not made tax residents here before. It is not relevant at all, but you dont get it. It would technically be a problem for those same people from the first filing next year, if they also lived here 180+ days. Not before with the old law.

Lol are you kidding me or what, are you really that ignorant? You want to tell 80% of the Thai people to relocate? And magically earn more money? Get real.

Is has nothing to do with trying to justify it, it has everything to do with how this country runs and works. To not understand that, while living here, is stupidity. Does that make drunk driving fun or cool? No? Does it make it necessary in a realistic life of the average Thai: Yes. Does it cause accidents and deaths? Yes a lot, but that is how it is. We western countries also justify keeping other continents poor and in war, so we can stay rich. Same same but different.

That short? 250 baht one way to a average remote place of only 10-15KM? That's even a lot for most farangs here. And most times they would not even go there or you would not get a ride from the house to there.

Not sure what the OP suggests, that people who live in remote places, never go out to drink or hire a private driver?

Because there is no taxi to even take to most remote places in the evenings or nights. That is the entire reason I do it as well. That's why Thais do it, to not be aware of this is kind of ignorant. For Thais it is also the taxi costs, that would 2 day wages. Blame the lack of public transport. I never need to do it in Bangkok for example, as there is always transport or a taxi.

This is completely irrelevant and something entirely else. You also don't even know what they did with it or are still going to maybe do with it, reporting people like that, same as for immigration, can take long times before it comes to the right desk, unless motivated with money. The point is that it is a crime to not file your taxes, that means still paying your taxes, a big fine, a possible jail sentence + blacklist forever.

Yeah hence I started this topic and we seemed to have found out the why, but somehow most didn't read it but do comment lol.

You make a big thinking mistake there as the tax reporting systems are global and functional. The immigration system is not bad or complicated because they are incompetent, it is like that due to the corruption and money involved. Just look at the Thai banks, they had more functions like inter transfers 24/7 etc etc since over a decade already, that the west only got since a few years. They are much more modern than the very old systems we still use in the west on all these ends. It's peanuts for them to make a list of each person. Then the next argument is enforcement. They don't need to enforce at all, they only need to catch you on a random check and now it's a crime too.

Yeah but if you have a girlfriend/wife and a kid that suddenly is not as easy, as of passport limitations on her side.

Yeah I think actually usually people are moved to the police station, in that area, after they are processed. From there they are then moved elsewhere.

Oh I meant at home, outside Bangkok. In BKK i always carry it.

Most of them have, I never been there myself in Bangkok but pretty sure there is something. But maybe not, maybe that is why Bangkok is always so much worse in these situations. It would explain the stories.

Maybe read again, what I said, and then you know the answer. Yes I always carry my passport if I go out further than 15 mins from my house, same as my wallet and phone. As well most times my laptop and chargers. I do that since 10 years. Everyone should do what they want but if you go out in Bangkok, specially at night, you are smart to bring it with you. I always have everything with me, to basically be able to leave the country, if wanted or needed. Clothes are easy to buy again anyway. I store my to-go bags at MRT stations. Im used to always carrying my passport as it is a law in my country and I never had a ID card / always a passport.

That's why I always carry my passport, even everyone thinks im a fool, never had issues losing my property, if I go out, specially in Bangkok. Having that during a raid in a club also ensures your the first to be on your way.

I doubt that was about immigration, specially if it was on a bike. That was more likely to collect a bribe lol. They moved a friend of mine arrested for driving drunk that way to the police station too, to then start talking about options on the way and stopping at a ATM... He was on the way a few mins later.

You would be taken to immigration first to identify who you are. Only if that is impossible, you would end up like that in the IDC. But you could for sure end up being in jail over night or even for a weekend, if not having it on your person + no phone.

I spend that every month on restaurants and drinks. I did erase bar girls from my budget since covid, that's why I have more for food now. 5K a night average X 2 per week.

No I don't think it is a lot too, it is quite normal in Europe at least. Most farmers in southern france already drink a karaf by lunch time.