Danderman123

Was this in regards to your visa application? I can't think of any other reason why Thailand would be interested in your Belgian bank account.

What country was your bank account in? How did Thailand locate your foreign bank account?

This is Thailand. I'll wait for money to be distributed to the Thai people via the Digital Wallet before I worry about filing a tax return.

The resources are there to monitor remittances for large transactions. What is lacking is motivation to do so. This year, I have been paying for large transactions in Thailand with my US credit card. Do you think that TRD is monitoring credit card transactions?

You are telling us you have no ideas how elections are conducted.

Trump admitted that he lost the 2020 election. Was he lying?

How sure are you that Bob in the village will be filing a tax return next year?

Thailand wants to be a hub of Common Reporting Standards.

Again, this is the world of the handful of Farangs who have been paying Thai income tax in past years. For the rest of us, even if we wanted to file a tax return, just obtaining a tax ID could be impossible. For most of us, discussions about tax rates and DTAs are moot.

I know one lady who lives off Facebook, she has 5,000 "friends" and messages them for money. She doesn't work, and has a Thai husband. And she's too fat to work bar.

My point remains that a lot of these posts involve theoretical discussions, things that could happen if this weren't Thailand.

I know one lady who wants to take control, not easy to spend time with her. But there are compensations.

Actually, not. So far, TRD has done zero to extract baht from Bob in the village, who still doesn't know about any of this.

Sure. Just show Somchai in the local TRD office those English documents, and everything will be hunky-dory.

Easy peasy. 179 days in Thailand, 179 days in some other country. No income tax.

Is that after they enforce the motorcycle helmet laws?

Yeah, when the bargirls start filling out that form, they can help me with mine.

You mean "loan from boyfriend #1", "loan from boyfriend #2", etc.

As we found with marijuana recriminalization, once real money is at risk, legislative proposals vanish into the ether.

Note that the writer has a picture of Leon Trotsky in his profile and only posts during waking hours in Moscow.

You are missing the point: I was responding to a Russian talking point that Ukraine had to surrender as Russia is too big and powerful to resist. Like Germany in WW2.

One bargirl claims she loves me, and constantly posts photos of me on Facebook. No idea what her Thai husband thinks of that.

Scary brown People! Maybe they will swim to New Zealand and scare you over there.

Except that TRD has no interest in flagging large remittances from abroad. At this time. Which begs the question of how or why they would notice the 50K baht that Bob in the village remits every month. I am bringing up bargirls who receive big money to illustrate the lack of enforcement by TRD. The likely outcome for 2025 is that Bob in the village who never files will be unaffected. Who will impacted by the new tax regulations? Some Swedish guy who is snagged by the police for some financial crime will be audited, and his remittances traced for examination.

Bargirls who are "drinks only" typically have a Farang boyfriend who sits in the bar, nursing one drink during her entire shift.