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Your mistake was asking the hospitals. Just ask a couple of pharmacies as the other posters told you. @how241is spot on. Don't fly throug Dubai or Abu Dhabi (or Egypt, for that matter).

I do have a very good understanding of IT guys Just read your own posts and see them oozing intelligence

555 The smart IT guys in our company have been solving these problems for the last 30 years. It's us working people who have to deal with the consequences of their "solutions".

Good point. In Bangkok, I have encountered blatant corruption only once (about a grand total of 250B). Idiotic bureaucrats, bending the rules, sometimes in my favor, sometimes not - lots and lots of them. My guidance comes from Thais in Bangkok, and by and large they do follow the rules, About the same as in my home country. But friends of mine in Pattaya tell a very different story.

Sorry, if I came across as sarcastic. I wasn't sarcastic, I was really speechless. I understood your logic, it's just that this idea never occured to me and... honestly, don't know what to say. Maybe you are right??? I don't dare to believe it, I would still follow @chiang mai BTW in the embassy videos, TRD has said ATM withdrawals, even using a CC, are taxable remittances. Have they ever been asked about sending one's rent directly to the landlord (especially if he has a foreign bank account)?

If the customer later wants his WHT back - for which he has to get a TIN first -, there are triplicate forms for this from the bank. TRD then enters these manually into their system.

The TRD system doesn't work with often changing (as opposed to Thai ID) passport numbers, and certainly not with weird foreign names, like Ilan (that's all, only one name) or Pedro María Alvárez Gonzáles (can you parse it?)

Because you have a TIN

I don't travel there

I missread "...in your brain" Would be more convenient, wouldn't it?

I had to read this 3 times. So, a remittance is a remittance by the receiver, not by the sender. Now, that's an idea.

I didn't say that. They do send. But that doesn't mean the resp. foreigner "is in the RD system", whatever that may mean.

Yanhee?

There is generally no need for foreigners to report interest they received from Thai banks to the TRD.

Sounds reasonable, but it's not the case.

I wouldn't have wanted cortisone in the first place. And I would not have an invasive procedure done by someone who doesn't trust his own sterility. But some doctors wouldn't tell you before (I once had this experience, and paid the price). But anyway: the person who knows best how sterile his work was done, is the doctor who did it. So I would follow his advice.

I haven't considered this, it's not exactly the typical constellation. The poster didn't hint at this possibility. I do consider it now, and can tell you this: we don't know, what the TRD will think about it or whether they even care. If they care, they won't like it. Whether they would consider it tax evasion? HMRS would (rules posted in the 1st thread iirc), but TRD hopefully wouldn't. I wouldn't do something so blatantly showing them you consider them a banana republic when they can audit me 10 years back. "The transaction has bypassed Thailand" - no, it hasn't. The service has been delivered in Thailand. Only the money flow has bypassed Thailand. People devise many "smart" tax evasion strategies of dubious legality. How smart these people are, shows the fact that they publish it on the internet. Many ideas posted are so stupid and outlandish that it makes me cringe.

Are you kidding? This is so obviously tax evasion, it should be clear to anybody.

Nice. My home-country is a world leader in many much less enjoyable things.

You don't understand what kicking means to Thais and how serious it is. Kicking for them may not even involve bodily contact. Try kicking a motorcycle guy. But write your last will first.

It wasn't his "garden" It wasn't even fenced in, and whoever built these stairs knew very well why not to fence it in. Anybody who has lived in Thailand for longer than a couple of weeks knows that you cannot legally build like this. And if he was too thick to give a shït, his wife and her high contacts in the police could have told him. But reading your and many other posts, there seem to be an awful lot of ugly foreigners who think and probably act like him - exactly the reasons the Thais are so upset.

Has that one been acqitted, too, or are they still discussing the price?

So, has he been acquitted yet? Maybe he slipped...

You can't see he kicked her. And the way she walked away, any kick couldn't be have been very hard. But what you can see, he keeps insulting her (a compoundable offence also in Switzerland) before and after the " kick". If someone slips, there is a break in the flow of speech. And if someone slips and accidently kicks someone, even in Switzerland people would apologize.

It wasn't she who was compensated