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Yeah even it would be just 5% they can legally steal or claim, it is enough to cause a lot of trouble.

You must be really ignorant if you think it is done better for you in your 'organized pension'. We are just months or a few years away before they do a rug pull on those.

Is nothing to speculate about, deaths and murders happen a lot on all the islands. It happens also much more frequent than people even know, it is just rarely exposed in the media hence Koh Tao still appears to be the murder island while it is just as much Phangan. Why they happen? Foreign guys with big mouths, or part of the drug dealing scene to later get issues or rarely due to some foreign girl aka jealousy. Many other scenario's are ofte just accidents. From all the thing that happen, fights to gun point to a shot gun fired to murder, it often starts with a foreigner (guy) who was warned to fk off, or stop doing XYZ, and not listened.

Phangan has more deaths per day than Koh Tao has per 3 months, just depends what you want to highlight.

Thaksin family is a joke.

Patpong in Silom after a day trip around the river and china town, you will meet some interesting 'people' :D

Well they are only moving people more and more into digital money, here too. So eventually you will already get the issues that specific places require simply digital payments or it becomes a 1 hour process etc. There is tokenized gold that is 1:1 in vaults and regulated by New York and London such as Paxos Gold (paxos.com). I bought some myself as it is simply more liquid than real gold is, you also not deal with the premiums and can buy/sell as little as 1% of 1 ounce. They also provide digital dollars for Paypal. You then have essentially all benefits Bitcoin tells you you will have, without the Bitcoin price changes.

It's still like a wet dream here so I'm afraid that is not lasting much longer indeed. In Europe you already get blocked or issues for just a few thousand euro's or papers with dozens of questions. Here you could deposit a few million baht tonight going to machines doing 100K a go and nobody even asks. It's almost insane actually how easy it is here hehe.

12th year in a row we get the same BS news with zero solution and zero progress. Oh I get it, their solution is that you stay at home 24/7 with air filters in a condo, to work there and not live a life.

Exact what I do since recent times, just as a in between and let's see what really will happen. She gets a good gift and that covers now her allowance, my son, school costs, rent, utilities. I just keep sending a small part for myself, worst case I'm good to pay over that. Otherwise spending at a minimum, no purchases, no extra money into Thailand etc etc. Had a buffet setup prior to 2024 starting as well.

Is no perhaps about this at all, you just have no idea at all how things work clearly. Wether someone is liable for tax is one subject but the only person being liable for it, is the end receiver, not the sender. So the fact that you send it a brokerage send it or jesus send it, doesn't matter at all. Unless you of course send it to yourself but in that case it is not gifting nor paying/sending to a third party (person). Also if a broker sends money, they still do that in your name legally / tax wise, even it comes from their bank. If you instead want to talk about someone who before giftig it to their wife, still had to pay profit taxes in the origin country where it was made, or some personal income taxes over there, that is also a complete different subject as well not related to Thailand itself.

That's why many of those tourist are going to Vietnam since years already... Even Thais start going there for it + sea food + even shopping of clothes etc. Meanwhile business owners are actually workers of landlords.

In the business of taxes that is actually your problem and responsibility. That's the entire issue in the global landscape of rapidly changing tax and VAT rules too, it's hard to keep up as a individual or SME. Same as they can still get back to you for 5 year history in 5 years from now.

LOL wtf 500 baht fine and 5000 baht compensation, how did he get away that cheap. Just a 50 baht difference to define it a real joke.

As always just wait and see what happens. That email I got from kasikorn demanding I would sign some documents, I ignored, and all still works perfectly fine.

LMAO so half of the daily posters here not even live here. That explains so much too lol.

As far I know the nr 1 divorce reason in the west is as much due to finance issues as it is here so knowing that, the only difference is what each person accepts for their life standards, nuff said. It is not that long ago, just like 2 decades, that in the west most often the male would also earn 70-100% income. That they scammed everyone in the process and then let everyone focus on being equal is the real joke. It's not that different materialistic either, you used to fix your pants until it was really done and now you get a new one if there is just a tiny stain on it.

It's an expat / foreigner forum, I guess you really don't get it so never mind.

The idiots are saying this what, every quarter since 2014? Then they made visa's hard to support that idiotic idea, to then now have flooded the country with broke idiots on 5 year DTV visa's while they make it hard for genuine people that lived here a decade plus. I am so disgusted by it that I am just feeling bad to spend money here. They deserve misery.

Ehh if my memory serves me right they have repeated this crap statement since the military coup in 2014. With like zero results today.

Thailand and luxury: we increased the price 10X and now it is a luxury place, otherwise we give you the same crap. Guess they have to figure out the difference between expensive and luxury.

Thailand can't offer luxury, they can't even do basic service properly in any place here. Even at fine dining restaurants it's a joke, like you see someone 'trying to do good' as if it is some new intern back home. If my monthly income only increases enough, I would actually move to another country to get that and many other things on a higher level in my life. Let alone if I would be rich, why would I even bother going here.

Yeah someone is trying to create chaos again clearly.

What are you even trying to say? That is foreign news, they also kill dozens of people daily in 30 other countries. This is a local thing and when a foreigner kills someone on a bike, that is simply news. He <deleted> himself up big time by getting a photo on his knees, now it got media attention big time. If he did not do that or that photo would not been made, people already had forgotten by now.

Got intel that he is needing to pay a lot of moneys to settle. If not jail.