Lorry

You keep willfully confusing 2 things: What a government can do - what it is interesting in doing. Thailand doesn't tax bargirls, I don't know why. About taxation of foreigners, Srettha said: we couldn't do it, because we didn't have the information. Now, with CRS, yes, we can.

In my home country, bar girls do pay taxes, like everybody else who works. It doesn't matter at all whether the money they receive comes from abroad or not. If they receive a gift, they don't have to pay tax on it (no conditions like "customary" etc, as in Thailand - but the threshold is much lower than in Thailand) My tax advisor in my home country also has clients who are bar girls.

If the bargirl is the spouse, mother or daughter of the remitter - yes. But somehow I think, these are not the typical cases. In other cases, there must be a moral obligation for the gift, and it should be customary. You could argue, that gifts to your dek are customary in Thailand, but the TRD would not appreciate you saying this. Money given to bargirls, as well as to freelancers with a day job, no matter remitted from where, is taxable income. @Danderman123has a point here. Tomorrow I will apply at Soi 6, seems to be an easy way to avoid taxes.

But they always charge me 35% for tax!

Some posters are not very smart. No smart poster has ever said that. They COULD monitor, yes

Girls in Bangkok with a regular day job, whose taxes are withheld automatically, who also have a sponsor (or several sponsors), should add the sponsorship money to their assessable income. Do they do that?

Most girls in Soi 6 let the customer sign a gift contract for every st. Otherwise this would all be taxable income, taxes on top of the payroll taxes they pay as bar employees. (Disclaimer: not serious)

I have thought about this one, too. Looks like TRD doesn't care

The effect of your horse medicine has been extensively studied. The effect is zero. Paxlovid does have a very measurable effect. But, of course, you are free to eat horse medicine. Bon appetit!

Paxlovid is meant for light or moderate cases. This does not necessarily mean hospitalization, not at all. Of course, if you don't test positive, don't take Paxlovid. Just saying for others who might read your maliciously misleading post.

Please elaborate?

Thx for stressing this.

I see it the same way. But I noticed he said "if... your wife is outside [Thailand]" I didn't want to open this discussion again. We only have these words, everybody can think whatever he wants about them. Sorry for posting it in the wrong thread.

HMRC I don't deal with them and couldn't remember the correct name, i remembered a C, but thought why should there be a C? Now I know.

It never "becomes savings." @chiang maihas explained this very well. But it is income you gained in a year you were not a tax resident, no need to pay tax on it (first Q&As of TRD, 9.) (For double security, I would remit it in a year I am not a tax resident, either. @sometimewoodworkerhas criticized this as unnecessary. He is right, of course. I am just too anxious)

An American prescription won't help you in Thailand. You need to - know in which hospital to get Paxlovid - know where to get a test fast, with same-day results for PCR if needed - be prepared to pay. During the last 5 days, I payed 2x3500 for PCR, twice, and 4500 for LAMP test. And, of course, 156 baht for 4 ATK. Everything was negative and I stopped testing now. But I was prepared to pay 25,000 for Paxlovid. (I will get reimbursed, that helps) I would never dare to advise a patient to carry Paxlovid just in case. People will take it without testing, because they feel "sure it's covid". And people won't check the interactions. These really can kill you, e.g. Rivaroxaban.

Re: gifts For another reason I listened to the Swiss Embassy video one more time. #AskTheEmbassy with Khun Nathanan Junprateepchai, Revenue Department 41:05 starts about gifts. Kh. Nathanan: "so, example, if you have Thai wife, and you are Swiss, you give Thai wife support, right, then Thai wife will be exempted from tax. Or, in another case, if you stay in Thailand, and your wife is outside, and pay[s] you money inside Thailand, i[t']s a foreign source, right, will be exempt up to 20 million Baht per year" I don't want to open this can of worms again, but as the videos have disappeared in the tax threads, here is the Swiss one for everybody to watch. The French one, is verboten, obviously.

The idea not to discriminate against foreigners will sound very weird to Somchai

You magically invented this number. It's still a lie. Those are the hospitalized patients. Even patients with the plague are not always hospitalized.

Correct. I know Paxlovid is good, and I make sure I always have fast access to it. And because it's a race against time, I do test a lot, starting with an ATK at the first whiff of sickness (it actually was positive once), if negative, followed by express PCR on the same day (it was once positive one day before my flight to Thailand, at a time they tested every incoming passenger and put the positive ones in quarantine, at their own cost. I was glad I did that PCR and didn't fly). I stop testing after day 5, because I wouldn't take Paxlovid after day 5, so test for what.

Doxazosin is similar to Tamsulosin, but it's not the same. It's cheaper than Tamsulosin (that's why it's preferred in Thailand), so you can't compare the prices.

There are no tablets of Tamsulosin 2mg. Maybe you mean 0.2 mg. Often prescribed for Thais. I don't your race, neither your size and weight. For caucasians, the usual dosage is 0.4 mg. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4740534/ If 0.2mg helps you, just stay with it.

Phramongklutkao. Good hospital. I doubt you will like it, government hospital, Sheryl has often written what to expect.

Dr Google is NOT recommended for anything. And in this specific case, relying on Dr Google can easily kill you. Many people take regular medications they really, really need, but which cannot be combined with Paxlovid. So a doctor has to decide how to handle this: reduce or stop the regular medication for a while? Monitor the patient closely? Don't use Paxlovid?

Siam Drug doesn't have it, it's only available in hospitals. The reasons are the mentioned interactions, which can be deadly. It would be irresponsible to let people by this OTC. Good point. Paxlovid is available in the big government hospitals. Of course, don't expect it to be available in small places like the military hospital in Surin. Price in the military system is 9961B. You need (obviously) to see a doctor first. I don't know, how willing a doctor there would be to prescribe it for a foreigner, and I don't know how strictly it is rationed.