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Easy-peasey. He's 60 and single. A nice furnished 45-meter studio or 1BR can be found for 5-6000 bath. Utilities a couple thousand, phone+internet 500. That leaves over 50K for food and transport. Seems he's not interested in booze, hookers or blow.

Had a similar problem when living in China. Horrendous noise for a couple hours at night when the pump came on. But there are solutions. The pump might have an integrated timer that the owner/staff never bothered to turn on. Get the maintenance staff to go up and take a look see. Ask to accompany them and take lotsa photos. If it's got a timer, set it to run during the workday hours. If not, ask them to install a timer, set to run during the workday. Tell 'em you'll buy it if they'll put it in. Depending on the plumbing, you might be able to get them to install some isolation bars or plugs or mat to dampen the vibration. Not these in particular....just examples. https://www.lazada.co.th/products/-i4735312137.html https://www.lazada.co.th/products/532x15-dropshipping-i4758813055.html https://www.lazada.co.th/products/4-m4-m3-m5-i4773092404.html

That's ridiculous. Annual expat insurance is often not included when posters list their monthly expenses. It's usually considered outside of the daily budget. If I'm referencing a product or service bought outside of Thailand with foreign currency, it's pointless to convert to bath. Everyone on the planet knows what a $ is.

My expat international insurance purchased from London is priced in dollars. Valid worldwide, except in the US (and a few other high medical expense zones). Can you guess what kind of dollars? Am I expected to convert the copay and coverage amounts into bath, too?

We can see from the photo in the linked article, he has a yellow tag. We can learn from the text of the article that he did not pass through the checkpoint. He dumped the ladies and then did a runner. It was only after he was tracked down that they found his tax payments were in arrears. Had he taken the stealth maneuver with the ladies still in the vehicle he'd have collected the fare and continued to avoid the tax, as well as the 5000 baht fine.

You seem to be the only forum member unable to understand. In country daily expenses quoted in local "bath." Foreign transactions, not deducted from the 60K bath budget quoted in foreign current. Any quote in $ is assumed to be the US kind.

In country daily expenses would be quoted in "bath." Expat foreign insurance would be quoted in currency in which purchased in which.

The dodgy agent (I've read here) will cost 20-40K/year. Reasonable health insurance at 60 around $2K/year.

No problem living comfortable on half that amount. But will he have 800K to leave in a bank, or will he xfer 65K/month? He can afford almost anywhere. What are his interests/requirements?

Prolly knot.

So he drove off without the passengers. How does that avoid driving through the checkpoint? There are two options here: He drove through the checkpoint without the tourists, and was fined for not paying road tax, regardless of tourist passengers. He unnecessarily dumped the tourists, then took an alternate route without going through the checkpoint to avoid the road tax fine. What does the presence of tourists got to do with it? I tink me tink tu mut.

Small yellow card? Prolly your TIN used for your tax return.

Because the headline reads "Taxi turmoil......in Bangkok" The writer (or intern) does a quick google image search for "Bangkok taxi" and grabs the first photo that looks pretty.

What exactly do you want to know? We have a new regulation going into effect soon. Some news articles report it one way, others report it differently, maybe. Afraid I can't give you any definitive answers. We'll just have to wait and see. I am hoping for the best. I am planning for the worst. I have low expectation for the hub of failed policies.

Thailand’s revenue departments has released new guidelines which will see all income from abroad taxed as personal income tax regardless of whether it was earned income or savings. A senior official at the Ministry of Finance confirmed a document released by the revenue department over the weekend was accurate. According to the document, “…those that have earnings from occupation or business abroad or wealth that is located abroad…and has brought these assets into Thailand…must factor this into their personal income tax for the year.” https://www.thaienquirer.com/50744/thai-government-to-tax-all-income-from-abroad-for-tax-residents-starting-2024/

Depends on what services. Want to rebuild a wall? How can they give you a reliable quote if they don't know if the old wall needs to be dismantled and carted off, whether the foundations have to be repoured, whether tree roots that destroyed your old wall need to be removed, whether the poor fill dirt the original contractor used is sinking. Same with painting or plumbing or electrical.

I don't know what to speculate.

....and apparently the new law says...... As stated previously, we don't know nuttin' yet. How will this be implemented? If wealth abroad brought into Thailand, whether earned income or savings, will factor into personal income tax, how will the authorities handle this? They certainly won't wait until the following year to get their cut, knowing the funds are liable to be sent out of Thailand just as easily. If it's too cumbersome (for them) to make the determination for each incoming deposit (over a set minimum I suppose), then better to tax everything and let the poor plebes deal with getting the overtax back next year.

In some cases, they already do. Your Thai broker credits your account for dividends, after deducting tax. Your Thai bank credits your account for that splendifourous 0.5% interest, then deducts 15% tax. "Only the shadow knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men."

This is from the original announcement It seems, from the article at least, that any money that "comes in" to Thailand will/may be considered as "in-come." At this point, don't nobody know nuttin'. Hope for the bestest, plan for the worstest.

For the same reason Americans (and I suppose anyone with tax residence in the good old USA) have to claim foreign income on their American taxes, whether or not they brought said funds into the USA. Thailand is following the US example, claiming sovereignty over all global income.

It all comes down to implementation. It would be easy for the government to decree a 15% withholding on all incoming foreign deposits be collected by banks. At the end of the tax year, it will permitted to apply for reimbursement. But then what sort of documentation will be required to "prove" the imported funds were previously taxed?

Hooooray! Another $trillion in debt, AND more money for nazi ethnic cleansing! What's not to like?

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