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Best tax post for a long time. Smart poster and smart tax office. I should move to Samui to file my taxes there.

It doesn't only apply to pension income, but it doesn't apply to all of the various categories of assessable income listed in the RC. This is all listed quite explicitly in the RC and had been posted before by @chiang mai, e.g. on August 23.

Which is exactly why it's implemented

... then that tells you something about that county. (Just as the posts in this thread tell you something about that country)

From the abstract of the article OP linked on Wednesday: "The public blame drivers rather than the state" BTW a good introduction into the subject is the NYT article from 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/19/world/asia/thailand-inequality-road-fatalities.html Not as long and not scientific, but easy to read.

The leader of today's Economist. You get 1 free article, to get another one delete history. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2025/02/06/the-vast-and-sophisticated-global-enterprise-that-is-scam-inc https://www.economist.com/podcasts/2025/02/07/scam-inc-reveals-a-world-of-crime-even-worse-than-the-drug-trade https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/02/06/online-scams-may-already-be-as-big-a-scourge-as-illegal-drugs The Thai government is working very hard against the scammers, who kidnap their victims often in Thailand, ferry them unhindered through multiple police and military checkpoints to a neighboring country, where they force them to work as slaves in the scam center towns using Thai infrastructure (Thai electricity, Thai mobile networks).

The content is not so much outdated (the referenced studies are fairly recent) as debated. As for the usefulness of PSA, German guidelines discuss PSA on 10 pages, without any conclusive result. A bit too much for this forum. Sweden (and Norway) obviously recommends the Stockholm3 test, which is also used by the university hospital of Zurich.

Yes. Easy. But must go to their shop

The call center will tell you if it's your name or the name of your wife. They will also tell you if it's none of these two, and may help you to figure out which name you used (if, for example, it was your grandfather ). They will not tell you the name of a SIM card if the name is completely unrelated to you.

Are you kidding? Just as an example, the last time I drove in Iowa, I was supposed to mostly drive on the right-hand side of the road. I have done this in Thailand, too, but for some reason my TGF protested.

Nowadays, the orange Superrich (at least the main branch) gives you a real nice receipt with your name if you change money. About the green Superrich, I don't know. Vasu does it on request.

And for a scientific approach, I recommend reading the long post OP wrote 51 minutes ago.

From my anecdotal evidence, corroborated by many TV threads, farang in Thailand are disastrous drivers. First, they drive on the wrong side of the road (if they are Americans or Europeans). Second, most don't have a license, ie they don't have the license to drive the kind of vehicle they drive here. People who have never in their life operated a motorcycle do it here all of the time. In their home country, they wouldn't dare to do it without the proper license. Here, I have been asked whether one needs a license at all to drive. And they can't read Thai traffic signs. Then, farang in Thailand are usually old, slow, poor vision, sleepy reflexes, but stubborn. Many wouldn't be considered roadworthy in their home-country. And they are usually drunk. Finally, most farangs know that they are superior beings. They cannot even imagine that their driving is less than perfect. And they are always quick to blame "the Thais". From this not-so-scientific analysis clearly follows, aliens should be relegated to walking.

If you really have to file (that's a big if, there are many threads about it) - do you really need the Dutch documents ? Maybe they are not necessary at all, especially if you do e-filing. - some TRD staff have said a Google translation is acceptable - if you really need a certified translation: Find a translator accepted by your embassy (they should have a list of translators). Have him do the translation, then get the translated document stamped by your embassy (for a fee, the translator will get the embassy stamp for you). Then make an online-appointment at the consular service at Chaeng Wattana (there are threads how to do this) and get your last stamp there (for an express fee of about 800B, they offer same-day service)

So e-filing is the way to do it?

3M official store in Lazada and Shopee don't have them. Because most masks in Thailand are fake I don't want to buy from an unknown seller. I lost the name of the company where I used to buy them during the pandemic. As gf is spitting blood from the smog I would be happy to find a reliable source. Thx

No. Absolutely not necessary. I don't know where you are from, but countries like Australia, North America, Western Europe don't work like this. If you live there as a tax resident you owe taxes, nobody is going to tell you this. You are supposed to know it.

OP is full of fallacies, factual, logical and statistical. Just 2 of them, at the beginning: Bangkok has a very distinct smog season, which is now. Air quality in September is not bad. It doesn't make sense to average Bangkok air quality over the whole year. "Life expectancy of Bangkok residents": Bangkok is not a city of Bangkokians, born there, living there, and dying there after 79 years. It's a city of migrants, the vast majority of residents weren't born here (especially if you define Bangkok as the area inside there city limits), didn't even grow up here. The concept of "life expectancy of Bangkok residents" is nonsensical. Later on, he excuses PM 2.5 with the fact that Westerners used to smoke...for heavens sake! Who paid for this apologetic nonsense?

Tadalafil is also cheap in Europe. OP pays 80 B/5mg Apcalis is 25 B/5mg (buy 20mg and a pill cutter), easy to find in Bangkok or Pattaya. Price in Western Europe 10 B/5mg, Eastern Europe cheaper.

OP should get a new culture with sensitivity test. Culture should be done after prostate massage (not every doctor will do this). Ask to include sensitivity test for - doxicycline (won't help by itself, but may be added to fosfomycin) - fosfomycin (if sensitive, discuss with your urologist the length of treatment, 3 doses is not very long) - sitafloxacin (some ESBL are sensitive to high-dose sitafloxacin) These 3 are conspicuously absent from your posted antibiogram. Taking any antibiotic without a new sensitivity test would be stupid.

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The whole idea of price discrimination (nowadays often a different price for every customer) is to be unpredictable and thus squeezing the last 1200 baht out of the customer.

I have lots of experience with them and 3 to 4 days sounds right. Having said that, yours are quite impressive lesions, might take a bit longer. You should have started treatment sooner. What a doctor calls "heal" and what a layman calls "heal" is not the same. You will probably see harmless skin discolorations for months.

Any Thai skin doctor can recognize a paederus (ด้วงก้นกระดก) dermatitis. OP got very good explanations. Treatment consists of steroid cream and topical antibiotics (eg Fucicort cream). You can have it at multiple sites if you inadvertently spread the poison (by just swiping away the insect) or if you have been exposed to several of them (I have been in rooms with 20 of them). Nets or window screens protect you. Once they are on your skin, you will usually automatically swipe them away (often in your sleep when they are near your eye - the result is called "Nairobi eye"). So @Sheryl's cat is excused.

Visa debit cards from Kbank have limits that are preset by the bank and that the customer can adjust. There are 3 types of limits: Limit for ATM withdrawals. Limit for ATM transfers. Limit for spending (ie swiping). There are maximum limits, you cannot raise the limit higher than the maximum. Maximum for cash withdrawals is the lowest, 200,000 iirc. Maximum for ATM transfers 1,000,000. Maximum for spending 500,000. Bangkok Bank has a similar system. So, yes, you can use the card for hospital deposits in most cases. 1,000,000 deposit is very high, but even this would be possible. Most people don't have more than 1,000,000 in a savings account anyway.