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Not all carbapenems are brand new (imipenem 30 years), and the most common one - meropenem - doesn't have to be imported (Siam has it, for example). They are available at government hospitals. But you wouldn't get them there. Yours is a very unusual indication (as you should know by now). You can try to find a doctor willing to follow your wishes. Or you find a doctor experienced in urological infections who might have other ideas, still. With a prostate infection you will need weeks of antibiotic treatment, maybe 6 weeks. Carbapenems may not be the right choice. 2 alternatives spring to mind: combination of antibiotics, like doxycycline plus moxifloxacin; Japanese antibiotics (not easy to get tested for them in the West and very difficult to find some of them outside Japan)

Taxi from BTS Wat Phra Sri Mahathat to CW Building B is 60-65 B. Pink line about 20 baht, motorcycle 20 more. You save 20 B. If not rush hour, taxi is a lot faster.

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A friend is in CM on 30 days visa exemption. He had an operation on day 25, will be discharged from hospital and the doctor says he is not fit to fly for one week. So he has to stay a couple of days longer than 30 days. The hospital told him he will get a letter from the doctor to show to immigration at Suvarnabhumi I think he should go to immigration at CM and get a real extension (actually he is in Bangkok Hospital and I think they have this service) I worry what will happen otherwise at check-in in CM. Do I worry too much?

Just called Lazada and asked. They say, they definitely want my passport to activate the wallet. I tried to activate the wallet anyway, but I must take a photo of my passport. My passport is worth a lot more than 600 B. They say there is no other refund possibility. So the people who say it's a scam seem to be right, and the ones who give Lazada all information for free are just digital naives.

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Cabb you use the contents of the wallet to buy stuff? I was told that's only possible if I give them my passport number

I just got cheated out of 650 B by at seller selling fake goods (electronics). I have never applied for a refund. Refund policy is very complicated, no wonder people don't understand it. What I understand is: Don't communicate with the seller, apply for a refund through Lazada. But still, the seller has to agree to a refund (why should he do that??). I should prove the item is fake and not working, how? Judging from the purchasing procedure (complicated) and the delivery (the delivery guy disappeared in our back yard so we couldn't find him) this will be a lot of work. Then I don't get my money back, I get brownie-points in a so called "Lazada wallet". How to set this up? If I really want my money back, there are 2 ways: "activate" my wallet by giving Lazada my passport number (I won't do that), then I could use the wallet for further purchases, or applying for a refund in real money and giving them my bank account number (also dangerous). Can I give them my girlfriend's bank account? (not dangerous because empty) Did I miss something?

That is not expensive for carbapenems (BTW it's an iv drip, not an injection)

It depends. Some poster in some of the many tax threads did a calculation, and for him, it is worth it. Many snowbirds will just go home after 179 days instead staying a couple of weeks more. Doesn't cost them anything.

Yes. Generally, I try not to learn bad expressions. They are dangerous if I use them with the wrong people. I just scold them in my native language, they get the message.

Seems to me like a good solution. Someone who does this may still have to handle the taxes of his home country (depends on his circumstances, Americans for instance) but they are probably easier to handle than different Asian jurisdictions, and the "known unknown" of Thai taxes.

In this case, see gift tax He doesn't have to, I didn't say that I answered before, simple answer You stick to the formal set-up, whose account is it? etc What you don't want to understand - or maybe pretend not to understand - is that the formalities don't matter in the end. Not whose bank account is it, but whose money is it? Who controls the account? Who is the beneficial owner? Reminds me of the set-up of the people buying land through nominees. It worked for a while, but in the end you run the risk that only economic really counts, not the set-up on paper. I won't answer more because I think you pretend not to understand.

That doesn't matter at all. What matters is: does the resident use this account to remit his own foreign income? Then this income is taxable. Or does the resident withdraw money from this account which had been deposited there by the non-resident? Then see my last post. If the resident uses the non-resident's account to remit his own income and hide this fact from the RD, that would be illegal tax evasion. If the resident uses the non-resident's account for other reasons (e.g. this bank won't give him an account but it's the only bank in town) but honestly files taxes, it's not illegal. Mule accounts are a big topic right now, I would be careful. NB now you know why they don't let tourists open bank accounts anymore. Banks in the West have long become branches of their tax offices. Thailand is following suit.

That would make you a tax resident in Vietnam. Vietnam taxes global income

So the resident gets income from the non-resident. Is it a gift? > proceed to discussions about gift tax Is it not a gift? > treat as income and follow RC. No need to apply P. 161/2567 as the money was not remitted by the resident

Same situation, 3 years ago at CW: no problem, no fine

Covid started in China in the last months of 2019. The news about it came in the last week of 2019, when Taiwan warned the world, but the world chose to ignore the warning. The first country to do surveillance and impose restrictions was Taiwan, starting in the last days of 2019.

Thank you very, very much for never giving up and still keeping people updated. I got a little bit more relaxed than you about masks, but I got scared last week when a friend got covid 2 days after we met. It was a timely reminder that covid won't disappear. I wear a N95 in lifts, taxis, public transport, 7-11, usually also in shopping centers. Hardly ever eat out anyway. Where did you get the vaccine? I got it abroad, and last week's article in the Bangkok Post didn't sound like it would be easy or cheap to get in Thailand. BTW I also make sure I have access to Paxlovid 24/7

Youth are right about the spelling. But NEVER add คน (or a name) in front of it, it makes it sound even worse than without คน

Airfares are not subsidized? Building airports isn't cheap. In my country airports are paid for by the taxpayer.

The articles reporting the ideas of the General Director of the RD sounded indeed as if she would like to introduce taxation on worldwide income in 2024. That would be retroactively, but nothing hinders a sovereign state to introduce laws retroactively. My home-country does this regularly. But as of now, these are just wishes of a senior tax official. Forget about 2024, and most probably 2025. It will probably happen imho, but not so fast.

สาระเลว [să:rá le:w] (r is pronounced l by Lao speakers) This is much worse than คนเลว (which nobody uses) Don't ever use it, you will get a beating.

That's wrong, it IS usually taxed. For SEA, this has often been discussed in the main tax thread. The consensus was that only the Philippines don't tax foreign income that has not been remitted to country of residence. (I think, HK and Singapore too, not sure - but these are financial centers with very special laws and anyway no alternative for someone who is looking for an alternative to Thailand). Taiwan has a very high limit (200,000 USD). Vietnam taxes worldwide income. Malaysia in principle, too. Cambodia, according to the letter of the law, too. In Europe, it would be difficult to find a country that doesn't tax worldwide income. Germany and France do it, the UK has the non-dom rules but normal residents pay tax for worldwide income. The country most mentioned on AN is Portugal, Residents in Portugal for tax purposes are taxed on their worldwide income at progressive rates varying from 13.25% to 48% for 2024. https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/portugal/individual/taxes-on-personal-income

To take the US as an example for how most countries do it usually doesn't work. If the US really tie tax residency to immigration status, they are certainly the odd man out. In Europe as in SEA, tax residency is usually well defined and has nothing to do with visa status. Of course, Thailand can introduce whatever tax laws they want. Let's hope they follow the American way of tax.