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Lets axe 'em! But better make it an AUDIO survey. On average, 79% of U.S. adults nationwide are literate in 2024. 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2024. 54% of adults have a literacy below a 6th-grade level (20% are below 5th-grade level). Gosh, the fine folks at the Department of Edumacations got us ranked just below Zimbabwe and Zambia! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! Less bang for the buck: In 2019, the United States spent $15,500 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) student on elementary and secondary education, which was 38 percent higher than the average of Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member countries of $11,300 (in constant 2021 U.S. dollars).

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Half of the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention's Epidemic Intelligence Service officers — a group known as the CDC's "disease detectives" — were among the cuts made Friday by the Trump administration, multiple health officials tell CBS News. As part of the fellowship, they serve for two years around the CDC or deployed to health departments across the country, often on the front lines of public health responses. Many go on to rise through the ranks at the agency after being selected for the program. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-disease-detectives-doge-cuts-health-agencies/ The Trump administration has laid off approximately 1,270 employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amounting to nearly 10% of the agency's workforce. https://www.btimesonline.com/articles/172843/20250215/trump-administration-cuts-nearly-10-of-cdc-workforce-eliminates-half-of-disease-intelligence-officers.htm Cutting in half a 2-year fellowship training program ≠ scrapped, and cutting an entire department by 10% isn't exactly earth-shattering. We may not like what Trump-Musk are doing, but let's not lie about it.

This is the Korat immigration office with their own rules. Korat requires a new TM-30 each year when you apply for extension. TM-30 desk is in the next building over, takes 5 minutes. My wife does it for me and makes a copy while I'm in the documentation check area. Yes, every year the same, just as at CW with their 3 extra pages. But Korat has their own versions. I included CW copies in my package first time there, which were not accepted. Shouldn't be, unless you have two separate sheets where theirs is double-sided. I prefill with blue ink.

Millions and millions of voters agree: He's not Harris.

In a press conference, the Prophet Elon proclaimed "There's crazy things… cross re-examination of Social Security, and we've got people in there that are 150 years old." So that much is true. A "cursory" examination of the data is of course, "cursory," and some records indicate an age of 150. Did the cursory check include birf'dates or just age? Either way, why are we still using a decrepit COBOL system, and why are there records without birf'days? No, let's not investigate waste, fraud, abuse, mismanagement, just let the program go insolvent................like a Trump casino.

SOP for law enforcement. Got picked up for trafficking drugs? We have bigger illegal alien fish to fry. Go have a chat with Lt. Doge from the persecuter's office, and maybe you two can work out a deal. Say, you're not allergic to wire, are you?

30K interest should result in 4500 baht withholding tax at 15%. (I think there may be a limit to tax free interest of 20K baht.) The following forms of interest income may, at the taxpayer’s selection, be excluded from the computation of PIT provided that a tax of 15 per cent is withheld at source: interest on saving deposits in commercial banks if the aggregate amount of interest received is not more than 20,000 baht during a taxable year Don't know if that means you can't get withholding refunded for amounts over 20K, only that it must be shown on the tax return. *********** You haven't filed for 4 years, I assume you earned similar interest in the past. Why not stop by your bank and get withholding statements for the past three years, free of charge. Then file 2022, 2023, 2024 returns online, only needing to upload the bank withholding statements, not claiming any remittances. Your cost will be an hour at the bank, 200 baht late filing fee (only charged once), and an hour at the computer filing returns. For that, you get ~12,000 baht refunded. (If the tax-free limit for interest is 20K, then your refund would only be 9,000.)

Under the old rules, wealthy Thais could invest offshore, make $Millions in capital gains in the US and repatriate the earnings tax free the following year. Capital gains for non-resident foreigners are NOT taxed in the US, only interest and dividends! They had their cake, and then they ate it. Now they'll have to use gifting rule, and worry their soon-to-be ex-wives don't run off with the cash, or pay lawyers/accountants to set up family trusts and front companies to get their cash in tax-free. This, I believe, is why the rule interpretation is being reconsidered.

If you make online appointment, expect to be called ~30 minutes before scheduled time. You must get a new TM-30 receipt before having your documents checked. IO will give you a new 90-day receipt when you do your extension. Everything done in one go: extension/re-entry/90-day. Small shop across the street has copier and will make passport photos. Bangkok Bank a couple KM north of immigration, just north of HomePro, will prepare bank letters in ~10 minutes. Parking inside the compound beneath the building.

If you had ever held a TS or higher, you wouldn't be asking that question. And consider many of these were new hires still in the probationary period.......FBI would have recently been updating their case files.

Probably. And they probably don't have a personal cell phone/email for personal use, they probably just hand out their TS/SCI numbers and emails to everyone, and they probably don't have a physical address, at least not in the US..... Perhaps they were the ones who ordered $400 million in armoured Teslas to drive to their puppy training retreats.

I won't be worried until the tax-grifters start posting YouTube videos.

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), vital for counter-terrorism and nuclear weapon transportation, is recalling employees due to their access to sensitive national security secrets, sources revealed to Bloomberg. ...these positions often require "high-level security clearances and extensive training of at least 18 months... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/embarrassed-elon-musk-hastily-rehires-fired-nuclear-employees-after-dreadful-doge-error/ar-AA1z6ZvO However, officials noted they did not have the personal contact information for these individuals. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/nuclear-agency-struggles-to-contact-fired-employees-to-inform-them-their-termination-was-rescinded/ar-AA1z7EL0 This is............strange. Top level ueber-secret clearance guys overseeing critical nukular infrastructure....................don't have a valid cell phone number on file? Can't be reached? In that case, they should be fired! Maybe the FBI could try adding prefix +86 10 to their number on file.

According to the article: An email obtained by NBC said the letters for some NNSA employees "are being rescinded, but we do not have a good way to get in touch with those personnel". Must not have been essential personnel if they don't have a phone number on file. "Hey Lenny, what's this red line on the dial mean? Why is that light flashing? Somebody had covered it with black tape." "I dunno, Carl. I'd ask Homer, but Mr. Burns got Smithers to fire all the deadwood."

Not really misleading. TRD actually ruled on pre-2024 income, remitted in 2024 and beyond. I'm shirley it could be possible to come up with some circumstance where this was not the case, such as a tax-resident in 2017 remitting 2017 income in 2017, but of course the comment and this thread are not concerned with that. It's all about the change to prior year income now being assessable. We're speaking specifically about the time after the change, that being after 01 Jan 2024.

I won't post the video, just the Youtubes title. Zookeeper Films Himself EATEN ALIVE By LIONS After He Went Into Their Cage TO IMPRESS GIRLFRIEND"

If state charges, Trump would have no say over New York persecutors. These are federal charges in federal court with, umm, federal persecutors defying their DOJ leadership. But apparently Trump is not so corrupt as to give his crony a 10-year 10%-for-the-big-guy-so-never-even-gotta-go-to-trial-card.

Buy a handle before you leave, made in Poland.

No, that means the current case is not justified by the (lack of) evidence. Without prejudice means they can re-file the case if they feel they can prove it. Shirley, if Trump was as corrupt as you say, he'd simply pardon his crony for all crimes, even if not yet uncovered, going back ten years. That would be corruption!

Generous? The rule wasn't made for you. The law was written by those who often bring in 20 million baht income from offshore investments, and need a method to avoid paying tax.

That is incorrect. All income pre-2024 remains exempt, regardless of tax-residency. In 2026, 2025 and 2026 income is taxable (depending on tax-residency). Pre-2024 income remains exempt. In 2027, 2025 and 2026 and 2027 is taxable (depending on tax-residency). Pre-2024 income remains exempt. All they've done is close the "only current year income is taxable" if tax-resident loophole, effective for income earned after 2023. And now it appears they may be going back to the previous interpretation.

They are currently experimenting with FAFO.

Not sure what that has to do with remittances IN to Thailand...... Tax man said "...the global economic landscape has shifted, with some countries no longer adhering to the original OECD rules. This necessitates an adjustment..." More likely has to do with President Donald Trump on Monday declared that a global corporate minimum tax deal "has no force or effect" in the U.S., effectively pulling America out of the landmark 2021 arrangement negotiated by the Biden administration with nearly 140 countries.

There are no columns for NON-assessable income, and no provision for deducting if declared. But go check out this other thread. Looks like this may all turn out to be just a bad dream.