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"Go ahead and keep repeating the communist (now also progressive) propaganda talking points."

Well, you can post those isolated incidents. I did a quick googles, and it was about 1) lack of ID/proof of citizenship, and 2) voting in a state never a resident in.

Makes sense. Think of all the additional emergency crews, tow trucks and ambulances, fire fighting equipment, doctors and nurses, blood transfusion devices, etc will be needed! Then you can factor in the new insurance adjusters, road repair crews, auto repair shops, auto parts suppliers! Imagine the "hub of chaos" as half the country drives home after work hammered! Why, just the spending on additional body bags could bump the GDP a couple percentage points, assuming they aren't shipped in from China, but even then Thailand can collect 7% VAT.

I'm almost shirley foreign pensions will go in line 1, as pensions are considered "income derived from employment." Pay attention to which lines to TRD officer fills in. You can do it online next year and save the trouble of a visit to the tax office. Only takes ten minutes. Most of the form is pre-filled, you only add pension and bank interest.

As you're married, your TEDA increases. Check the list of allowances for health and life insurance (paid to Thai companies), support for parents and children, payments to social insurance, certain investments. You might also get another 190K if wife is >65. You'll likely never pay tax.

Interesting that you bring the Iran problem into the debate. 1953. We regime-changed Iran's democratically-elected leader, installed our puppet, and put Mossad in the embassy basement to train the Shah's secret police. My, how history rhymes.

Add hominy. Now I'm beginning to understand the term "jingoist."

How nice of you to be so generous with other peoples' earnings! I can fix it! Let's just take more of that guy's money and give it to that illegal alien guy over there!

Nice talking point. Problem is those states are doing outside the US what they do inside the US - not requiring voters to document citizenship in order to vote, or permitting citizens with no connection to the state to vote in the state polls.

Huh! Ethnic cleansing has consequences. Who knew!

My, isn't that convenient! "We had to destroy democracy in order to save it!"

Russia held elections. Donbass and Crimea held elections. Why do you hate democracy so?

So was that other little nazi fellow who liked to wear military garb.

So cancel martial law. Easy as piroshki!

Loss of a quarter of your territory, economy dependent on foreign begging, and an entire generation under ground is wi....i mean, doing a good job? We have different standards!

Next time you're at CW, and IO wants you to hand-write something, they don't hand you a fresh sheet of paper. Turn it over and you've got someone's passport ID page or their bank statement. If I'm remembering correctly, stacks of recycled foreigner paper was set out at the front sign-in area for doodling and notes.

You are aware that cartons and cartons of confidential identification and financial documents are recycled by immigration offices and used as copy paper or handed out as note paper? I wouldn't worry about the banks.

I signed W-9's at BKK Bank, Krungsri, KrungThai, my Thai brokerage, at Schwab International last month, and ten years ago in China at Bank of China and Agriculture Bank. Interestingly, as of 'bout 5 years ago, Bank of China, Agriculture Bank, ICBC all dropped the requirement for Americans when opening accounts.

My point is the main actor that signed the agreement, failed to implement it, bombed the Donbass for 8 years. So, yeah. It was useless. Had the Minsky agreements been implemented, or Istanbul followed through, none of this would have happened. FAFO.

Thankfully, there’s an IRS amnesty program called the Streamlined Procedure that allows expats who are behind with their US tax filing to catch up. They simply have to file their last 3 returns and last 6 FBARs as is applicable, and self-certify that their previous failure to file wasn’t willful avoidance. The Streamlined Procedure also lets expats claim the Foreign Earned Income Exclusion and Foreign Tax Credit, depending on which is more beneficial for their circumstances, which mean most expats won’t owe any US tax, although they still have to file. https://brighttax.com/expats-irs-streamlined-procedure/

I'm shirley the W-9 is the FATCA form. FATCA requires foreign banks to report their American account holders’ name, address, account details (including balance), and US tax identification or social security number. Form W-9 allows banks to know this number. https://brighttax.com/blog/us-expats-receive-form-w-9-from-foreign-bank/

Approx. 350K remitted. All non-assessable by DTA. No need to file. But let's assume you have a weird pension that IS taxable. You would be over the 60K (unmarried) income threshold and would technically be required to file a return. You get 60K personal allowance, 190K old fogies allowance (*), and 100K pension deduction. That coincidentally brings your taxable income to exactly zero. No tax. Had your income been higher, your first 150K above 350K would be taxed at 0%. The next 150K above that would be taxed at 5%. You can still file and get your interest withholding tax refunded. (*) Anyone know if the 190K old-age allowance is added to the 60K personal allowance, giving you 250K, or does the old-age allowance replace the personal allowance? Do you get both, or only one? ***OPINION ONLY. NOT ADVICE. DO NOT TAKE INTERNALLY.***

Is this about FATCA or CRS? The Kasikorn emails were sent out at the end of January for existing customers to update records if their home tax jurisdiction information had not been entered. Came about with Thailand implementing CRS. Shouldn't be FATCA. Americans have been filling in IRS forms around the world when opening foreign accounts for many years.

If the signatories don't implement the agreement, what are non-signatories to make of that? Never implemented, never took deflect.

Deflect, deflect, deflect! The Minsk agreements were a sham, never intended to be implemented, were simply killing time while Ukraine killed more Donbass ethnicans.