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Not so fast!!!!!!!!!!! The 276.5-billion-baht project, now fully prepared for construction, awaits Cabinet approval and is expected to launch soon. Completion is targeted for 2029. The high-speed rail project connecting Suvarnabhumi, Don Mueang, and U-Tapao airports in Thailand, worth 276.5 billion baht, is currently on hold awaiting the appointment of a new chairman for the Eastern Economic Corridor (EEC) Policy Committee. The Eastern Economic Corridor Office (EECO) has announced that this appointment, which requires approval from the yet-to-be-formed new Cabinet, is expected within the year. don't know if i can post a link to thaitimes, so googles it. first we need a new cabinet. maybe in a year. has to approve a new committee chairman. and then the committee can maybe approve the project. and din't i read on this very forum a couple days ago that construction in pattaya on the line, or at least the access road to where the line will be built someday, has been stopped?

Local staffers aren't all up to speed. Get a fluent Thai-speaker to call the help line #1161. Explain exactly what you need to know to your helper prior to the call. Draw pictures with countries and banks with big arrows. Have a list of questions to ask, precisely worded, with a simplified version of the amounts and income types, with a blank line drawn for filling in the given answer.

Should Cheney and Bush be worried?

This is still unclear. "Cash in the bank" prior to 2024 is definitely exempt. As to other forms of savings, CD's, brokerage accounts.........no guidance has been given. We would hope an account balance or NAV on Dec 31, 2023 would be the valuation, but nobody knows yet. If cost basis for the sold/remitted funds is purchase price, some of the paid services are advising that any remittances are a percentage of exempt original capital and a percentage taxable capital gains. But no case on this here forum of anyone paying tax on remitted stock sales. Not yet.

Oh, I see. No benefits have been cut. You got nothin'. Just more mongering of fear. Sad. Bigly, bigly sad.

Please cite actual cases of grandma's benefits being cut. Thank you.

According to the regulations, if you have zero assessable remitted foreign income, your total assessable income including earnings in Thailand was under 60K baht (120K married), so no need to file or apply for a TIN. I believe from a previous thread you have a rather large investment in Thailand with dividends that would put you over the filing threshold. Your situation is unique, so it may be advisable to contact a tax accountant. It may be that because withholding tax was deducted at source, you can omit them from your tax filing if NOT requesting a refund, and perhaps not be required to file. Or maybe not. Or you may find that the dividends received are below your TEDA, and you may be entitled to a full refund of withholding tax for dividends and bank interest, which should cover your accountant fees. You own a condo..........do you have a yellow book and pink ID? If so, the pink ID number is your TIN. Have TRD activate it for use in the system, tell them you want to file online to request a refund. Show them your dividend statement from your Thai broker, not your bank statements or passbooks. ***OPINION ONLY. NOT ADVICE.***

Projected cost is 271 billion, which is ~$8 BILLION, assuming no cost overruns or delays or "enhancements" to the project. And that's with 40km Phaya Thai to Suvarnabhumi already built, approximately 20% of the total length. Consider the Chinese built the Kunming-Vientiene high speed rail, 1000-km, thru mountains, with hundreds of kilometers of bridges and tunnels, ahead of schedule and within the $6 Billion budget. As to high-speed.........................short answer, no. There might be a few short stretches where the trains can pick up speed out in the rice fields, but thru any built up areas, speeds drop to 80-90 kmh max. Article reminds me of magazine articles in the fitties promising household nukular reactors, flying cars and robot maids.

Way to make a mountain out of a gerbil-hill. "Flagged for removal" and "Deleted" not same-same. In this newfangled world, they has this thing called computaters, and they can write programs what do automatic searches. Ya gets to add a bunch of search terms, and the computater will go through the entire daterbase lickey-split, and print off a list of all the items that matched the search terms. These items are now considered "flagged for removal." Not deleted yet, just marked for someone to check them. Now some human bean will go lookie-lookie at each item to confirm whether each one should be deleted. Enola Gay dropping nukular bombs incinerating 100,000 civilians - good. Air defense operator with two mommies marching for sociable justice - bad.

Of course they did. It was "reported." And here you are, admitting Putin never said it. The 3-day timeline all goes back to an alleged quote by General Milley to congress, leaked by "sources", that has been repeated endlessly in the propaganda screeds, such that many believe it came from Putin. But sure, let's assume some POW's "freely" admitted it... And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn’t really mean it. But that isn’t true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there’s no other way of saving yourself and you’re quite ready to save yourself that way. You want it to happen to the other person. You don’t give a damn what they suffer. All you care about is yourself.

Where's the "should"? There was supposed to be a liberal-head-shattering "should"! Kaboom! There it is!!!!!!!!!!!

🤔 Well, of course Putin said it! It's in all the opinion pieces, and so many people like to repeat it online, so gosh, it's gotta be truthy. "I want to believe."

Citation needed. Please provide quote from Putin declaring intent to take Киев in 3 days. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told lawmakers that Kyiv could fall within 72 hours if a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine takes place, multiple congressional sources tell Fox News.

Add hominy for the winning!

Putin didn't want any of Ukraine. He wanted the Minsk accords to be implemented and an end to ethnic cleansing.

I'm sure it was. But did it happen?

Who was president in 2014 and orchestrated the regime change? Absent that weak fecklessness, Crimea would still be part of Ukraine, and the Russians would still be paying the annual lease on Sevastopol.

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Ummmm............that's how the system works.

"Talkers are no good doers." ~William Shakespeare

Oh, now it's "a document"? They received the normal tax receipt everyone gets upon filing. No reports of anyone getting the coveted "Tax Clearance Certificate." Sure. Plain old ordinary tax receipt. I filed already, sweetie. Got me refund, as well. How 'bout you? Gonna submit a return and get the majikal certificate, or just continue to monger your scares?

Easy. Live off her pension in her house. Leave your SS in your offshore bank, keep it secret, keep it safe. You're welcome.

It all comes down to whether you as the donor are receiving benefit from the gifted funds. However, it's all a gray area and very much up to interpretation. Clear cut examples are easy. If you gift money that is used for daily living expenses for both of you, that should be disallowed. If you gift money used for daily living expenses for your wife's mother, allowed. Houses and cars are..........complicated. I would say if the house and/or car is put in her name, then it should be allowed, regardless of whether you incidentally live/drive within. Others argue the opposite. The system is primed for corruption as ,in my opinion, that was the original intent. The laws are written by wealthy politicians to protect their wealth and that of their wealthy acquaintances. No need for a 20 million baht gift clause in a nation composed mainly of subsistence farmers. Same reason capital gains on stock and mutual fund sales are tax free, and why Thai mutual funds (holding foreign funds that pay dividends) don't pay dividends. We'll have to wait until someone gets flagged for an audit and has to document their gifts.

Yes, like those. Your particular TRD staffer was misteaken. Just as the one earlier who had someone declare their non-assessable income, and then fudge a makeshift method to deduct it...... Don't expect all the staffers everywhere to be up to speed on the new laws. Do your own research.