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The same logic that lies behind "all expenses paid" vacation packages bought in western countries. Tourist wants to relax, so lets the travel agency handle the details. Pay one price for flight and hotel and meals and ground transport and entrance fees. Same concept, same implementation, but in this case it's political. China bad!

Capitalism bad! Cronyism good!

Why not cut out the middleman? Issue everyone 125 lottery tickets.

So he'll have to fork over an extra couple hundred for the durian fruit basket?

Sure, easy to miss with these AI-generated wall of text articles.

Keep reading........... The hairdresser managed to lock the door and noted the car’s registration number.

I believe there is also a handicap exemption available for under 65'ers. 190K. Not applicable ot over 65'ers that already have a 190K exemption.

Go ahead. School the test proctor on physics and engine earring. That'll end well. Live stream it on YouTube. Shirley, as a former cop, you had methods to handle.... "You can't arrest me! I know my rights! I demand to see your supervisor!"

Nobody cares, 'specially the proctor. Being 'right' won't get you a license. Playing the game according to their rules will. Memorize the answers.

What is this logic thing you speak of, B'wana? That's crazy talk. If a bus pulls out, it's biggerer than me, so it has right of way. If I hit it, my car is totaled. If a scooter pulls out, I'm biggerer, it gets knocked into the ditch and I can continue on my journey. More crazy talk. Speed doesn't cause accidents. Hitting stuff causes accidents. Stop tinkin' too mutt! Memorize the danged answers!

Ask the copper. He knows. "I'm a flesh and blood man, not the upper case corporate entity. My conveyance doesn't fall under your jurisdiction."

"I don't need a drivers license......I'm traveling."

The test is super easy, barely an inconvenience.......(Chattuckak DLT last year)...fifty multiple choice questions that all appear in the study guides below. I got 50/50 on the car exam, then half an hour later 50/50 on the motorcycle test, both exams had the same questions. This is standard military-style "test-and-forget", where you memorize the field manual for the test, then immediately afterwards revert to reality. https://thaidriveexam.com/ https://traffic-rules.com/en/thailand/practice-test https://dlt-elearning.com/ https://move2thailand.com/driving-license-exam-in-thailand-2020/16/ You're in Thailand, study the Thai laws Forget what you think you know about driving. Answer their questions with the answers they want. Forget logic and reality and experience. Remember..........."ignorance of the law is no excuse!"

Well, if you have ฿800,000,000 in a fixed account at a Thai bank earning a princely ฿4,000,000 then you probably have an entire fleet of tax accountants on retainer and won't be worried. As for the rest of us, it seems interest earned in Thailand is taxed at 15% with no upper limit. I assume it's entitled to a rate lower than top tax rate to incentivize savings....but that's just a guess. With my measly ฿4,000 interest on retirement bail bond, I get a refund. I'm not for shirley, but I believe some DTA's specify maximum tax rates on dividends and interest. Foreign interest and dividends? I dunno.......are they taxed as regular income?

Those income streams already have special rules. Interest is taxed at 15%, dividends at 10%, and zero tax on capital gains from stock sales (SET listed).

Okay, so here's the deal. Up until now, and probably into the foreseeable future, TRD will accept our SELF-ASSESSMENT of the funds we remit. You declare what you want to declare, just be able to support that in the unlikely event TRD has questions. I don't know your finances, but shirley you can't mean you sold stock and the entire proceeds are gains! I know some knowledgeable posters claim that funds are remitted as percentages of gain/principal, but it seems fair to self-assess that gains are kept offshore, and only original principal is remitted.

You still haven't told us how much of the 500K is income/gain.

Self-assessment by 4MyEgo. He will decide which and how much of his remittances will be declared on his tax form under whichever classification. TRD never sees any documents.........under normal circumstances. Maybe Mr. Ego sold a condo. That would incur agent's fees, which Mr. Ego would deduct from the proceeds along with purchase price.

How so? "Savings" is not income, and is not assessable. There is currently no space on the tax forms to list all your remittances, only your assessable income. The 500K savings is essentially invisible. You determine which amounts are assessable, which in your case is 500K investment income MINUS cost basis and expenses.

Are you remitting from a sale of an investment? Does that 500K include both original capital and gain?

Yes, I've heard about that.

Excellent refutation, dude! I can see why you were the captain of the debate team!

It's cosplay, dude. Same as dressing up as a vampire or mummy or doctor or footbawl player or plumber or news anchor. It's not like he "identified" as a freak. It's a costume party. You never went to a Rocky Horror theme party in college? It would be different if he dog-whispered leather boys and stole luggage from airports.........

We've got a rice field behind us that fills with water, which then runs down in a small gutter a hundred meters to the road, then beside the road 100 meters to a low spot where it crosses the road and dumps into another rice field. Rainy season last year, spotted three of those black chin fishies flopping up the soi gutter traveling between the rice fields. This year honey-bunny found a fish underneath our porch following a heavy downpour. Fish had crossed the road, entered an outflow pipe from our property, swum up 50 meters against the flow to a drain box, jumped into a higher pipe, swum up that pipe to another drain box, jumped out of that to the ground surface, and followed runoff from the other side of the house to the porch.

Who's The Old Guy With Dimentia NOW? They say it's the ability to remember how to spell that goes first....