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I am vaccinated, what makes you think I am not. Paxlovid is not questionable at all. Like @ArkadyI have very good experiences with it. No side effects at all. Of course I wouldn't take it if I were a healthy 30 y.o., it goes without saying it's only for risk groups. Paxlovid does have lots of interactions with other medications, so you can't just buy and take it. You have to know, which medications you are taking already, and how to handle this. So, you really need a doctor. You are not interested in a rational discussion, but others may read this.

@Arkadyanswered your question. You misunderstand 2 things: an infectious disease may become rare (covid isn't rare at all) or less serious (covid is usually less serious than 4 years ago), but it may still be deadly (thousands of Americans died this summer from covid, but they were weak and old, so many people don't care) and may still require treatment Example: the plague (the Black Death) is quite rare nowadays, and rarely deadly (and only people who had contact with animals, so I don't care). In the US, if you get the plague, you still get treatment. BTW most members of AN are weak and old, as are many farang in Thailand

That's true. I have said that yesterday already. But that doesn't make it a copy and paste, as you misleadingly wrote. BP may not be amused if people claim their articles are copy and paste.

Oh. Good post, but not what I wanted to hear. But do you live with a Thai female? Does she accept that you don't eat the cr@p she cooks? Are you ever in the village? You don't let them, eg MIL, cook for you?

Agreed. Unfortunately, bureaucrats all over the world don't always do what makes sense.

The TRD's viewpoint as of now is "mutual funds means Thai mutual funds".

No, it's not. I searched for the article from June 5th and found it using the BP site search function, its not the same article. Afaik I am not allowed to copy them both here, and it would be a boring exercise, anyway. I advise everybody to ignore this troll.

Rice, bread...same as sugar Canned tuna ...in Thailand, probably contains a lot of sugar, i will check

Kegel exercises are recommended for men, too. I was recommended them, and I hope nobody's girlfriend looks like me. I was too lazy, though.

Yes, I misunderstood. What you say is my experience, too.

Thx for telling us, I didn't know this, as you can see from my post above yours. I am sure you don't mind to tell us the source of your insight. Some think, something might change because the rules have changed. They also think that the TRD is looking for lawyers to employ them, lawyers that know about DTAs, is indicative of change. Some people have been told by their local tax office that things have changed. The TRD has also given public guidance, in English F&Qs and in embassy interviews, saying things have changed. That is true (no sarcasm). And there was no statement saying "hey, guys, time is up. From now on, you have to pay taxes like Thai people do. We won't overlook your tax evasion anymore" ( no sarcasm) It would be a very pleasant surprise if it turns out you are right. But it would be incredibly stupid to take it for granted.

I had hip replacements on both sides. I did both in my home country, for 2 reasons: 1. I have seen many hip replacements done here, and the results were quite often not satisfactory. Having said that, from my 2 hip replacements, 1 was botched. And the usual international hospitals do have surgeons who do a good job. I did consult them, but I did the procedure in Europe. 2. The main reason I haven't done it here is the complete lack of post-operative aftercare and rehabilitation. Here, they send you home after a couple of days in hospital, and then you are on your own. What you really need is intense physical therapy for weeks and months. This includes ergotherapy (like learning how to get into a car or how to have sex), teaching how to walk (with and later without crutches), later adequate strength training. You do need professional guidance for all of this. This is just as important as the surgery itself. In Bangkok, you can't even walk with your new joint, let alone with crutches. You need a stretch of even ground, as long as possible (100m would be boring like hell after a while, but where in Thailand do you find 3km even, walkable ground?) (Small things: in Thailand, I couldn't even find a wedge shaped cushion for my body weight - more than 50kg. Hard to find decent crutches, too.) Cost in Thailand in a private hospital in Bangkok: 350,000 - 400,000, Bumrungrad or Bangkok Hospital 500,000. I would not choose the cheaper options. In theory, you could stay in the top floors of Bumrungrad for postoperative care for a long time. They have a roof garden, too. People have done this successfully, cost over 1m.

I always do them during my weekly MRI.

I recently inspected our kitchen - and I was horrified. I thought gf is cooking reasonable food. How wrong I was!!! Yeah, I noticed already how reluctant she is to buy fruit (I have never known a Thai who eats fruit), but never mind, I buy and eat it, no cooking required. The vast amounts of rice she serves with every meal end up in the toilet bowl (secretly, of course). But what I found in the kitchen...pounds of sugar, salt and MSG - none of that cr@p I have ever bought in my life. This ends up on my dinner plate! Has anybody ever had success teaching an adult Thai the most basic things about healthy nutrition? How?? I can't cook, and I guess if I tried it it would ruin the relationship. Like all Thais, she drinks basically only water, so that's good. And she doesn't buy sweet things, so that's very good.

No, wrong. Watch the first couple of minutes of the video @BigStarjust posted. Or watch the obesity lectures of Jason Fung (mutch more detailed), I think he posted the link, but easy enough to google them anyway

Thx for posting. I just read it. Nothing new, except they really mean it. For me, this would probably be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Pollution already means I won't spend the EU winter here anymore - but it's a bit weird to spend only the EU summer here. Ever increasing bureaucracy (online 90 days never working, now TM 30 again, soon ETA...) ... this used to be a country where I never saw a bureacrat in my first 10 years, that was very nice. It's not the small amount of taxes I might have to pay. It's the amount of time I waste with bureaucracy.

You have said many times that hardly any farang files taxes here. You may be a bit mistaken. I have friends who think 200 B is a lot of money. In Pattaya, and in the villages. And I have always been surprised, how well they know how to get back 185Baht 27 satang yearly WHT. These guys are worthless for TRD. But others in the villages have learned how to buy Thai government bonds. Now we are talking real money. I have no useful statistics, but neither have you, I guess. Most farang I know do file, which doesn't mean much, and I guess most farang you know don't file, which doesn't mean much either. We just don't know.

anrc's response "it is allowed" is irresponsible, dangerous and - in this generalized form - wrong. From the TRD themselves we have only heard in one video that credit card transactions count as taxable remittances. It was either the Swiss Embassy video or the French Embassy video, I tried to find it for you but couldn't, sorry. (Your question has been discussed on AN many times, as have those videos, and unfortunately AN isn't easily searchable. I don't keep a database of links to answered questions). It was not one of the multitude of useless vlogger videos jumping on the bandwagon, and the people speaking were officials from the TRD. Quite the opposite to what these officials said, is what an Italian from Mahanakorn partners says in a vlogger's youtube channel: only money remitted from abroad into your own Thai bank account will be taxed. When the video was discussed here, nobody took him serious, too much does it contradict all the TRD has ever publicly said. There are however good, real reasons to argue credit card transactions shouldn't be taxed: credit is not income ( @JimGanthas explained it very well). We don't know what the TRD thinks. BTW you should read the pinned tax thread.

To answer my own post: Samitivej promotes their LAMP test (easier for them to do, took 4 hours, 4500B including doctor's fee) which also test for influenza and RSV. (Fortunately, all negative)

PP = Phnom Penh

In this discussion about what TRD knows and what they care to know: My experience with them is, first of all they know very little. And they don't want to know more. If I prod them to dig in their computers, or if for reasons unknown to me they start digging by themselves - it's quite amazing what their computers can do. But digging really means manually digging, using spade and shovel, wasting spare time they could use to eat somtam, and asking colleagues and bosses how and where to dig. But they CAN do it.

Summarizing what we know so far: you probably may have to pay tax on those 300k+, nobody really knows for sure. For the moment, they cannot check it. But in 2027? (they can always audit 3 years back) For myself, I just assume that medical care just got 35% more expensive. BTW 300k+ is not expensive; add a zero and it's expensive, but common; add 2 zeroes and it's unheard of - expect to see it rather sooner than later.

I guess you are right. But I always found HMRS' view that all money used for goods or services used inside the country of tax residence, are taxable remittances, an extreme overextension of "logic". All the money I spent to buy clothes in my home country that I wear here - taxable remittances? Are they going to tax my underwear prorata? But I will stay on the safe side and won't use the shenanigans suggested. Way too blatant, in-your-face tax evasion. It may be they don't care. But it may also be, their reaction is "do you really think we are that stupid?"

Do you mean no questions asked by the Thai Revenue Department, who knew about these transactions because you told them, and who accepted them as gifts that reduced your tax burden?

How does tax work for people in Thailand on the DTV? like for everybody else, see post above. The only visa which gives tax exemptions is the LTR. No imho Same in Thailand. Until now, you needed a WP to work here. DTV doesn't need a WP. They think if you are employed by a company abroad, you have to be a tax resident to be taxed, so 179 days tax-free. Because they look at Sec 41 (1) of the RC . Sherrings mention a case from 2009 - those guys needed a WP which you don't need as a DTV holder. https://sherrings.com/thailand-source-income-personal-tax.html Good luck with that, I don't know whether TRD will agree This whole logic doesn't apply to freelancers.