NanLaew

The definition of a tax payer in Thailand as it CURRENTLY stands. 1.Taxable Person Taxpayers are classified into “resident” and “non-resident”. “Resident” means any person residing in Thailand for a period or periods aggregating more than 180 days in any tax (calendar) year. A resident of Thailand is liable to pay tax on income from sources in Thailand as well as on the portion of income from foreign sources that is brought into Thailand. A non-resident is, however, subject to tax only on income from sources in Thailand. https://www.rd.go.th/english/6045.html It's the same criteria that the US, UK and many other nations use to determine your income tax liability. It isn't your pension status, age, height or haircut that determines whether you owe the revenue department any money. It's the simple metric of how many days you are physically in the country. The US, UK and others determine this by having access to immigration databases (airport, airline, port and border passport desk data).

If your friend can afford a Lamborghini Huracan GT3, he can afford to pay however much they asked to allow him to breach Thailand's prohibition on importing a used car.

Good point, but isn't that typically a one-off, lump sum levy in that you can only die once? Those who find it too challenging can't be bothered to work out their Thai tax liabilities (if any) should try harder. They'll probably be pleasantly surprised.

Fundamentally correct. Reading between all the lines of legalese on taxation, dual taxation and tax treaties, the message is clear, if you are alive and breathing anywhere on this planet, you must pay tax.

I paid tax while working under the H1 visa scheme in the US. Didn't afford me any "rights" beyond a smaller pay packet.

Ask someone you know and trust? Or just any old Tom, Dick and Bignok?

If they relax the law so that the private individual can import his Suzuki Jimny, it leaves the door open for the bulk importer to bring in hundreds of Suzuki Jimnys which would kill the well-connected 'grey marketeers' monopoly. They need to charge ridiculous prices so they can cover the costs of being allowed to remain 'grey' (if you know what I mean and I think you do).

I am older than my mother-in-law.

I remember a crazy Kenner Taxi Co driver with a big red Oldsmobile cab waving a gun around at NOLA one time. Apparently, his fare skipped paying and ran inside the terminal. Airport cops came running out, waving their guns. Nobody got shot though. Fun times.

No it isn't.

Can you even use that terminology any more? I mean 'man'?

You havent seen how he dresses yet On no... don't get 'im started or 'e'll be posting fuzzy pics of some fancy motor from his yoof again.

I guess you would know this.

Try harder? There are loads of them on the market and on lazada.

Advice to the OP. It is perfectly safe to do so, right up until it isn't safe to do so.

Whoop!...there it is. Keeping in mind that at any one time in this enchanted kingdom, 73% of CCTV cameras are either misconfigured, disconnected or broken, 18% aren't being monitored or recorded and the remaining 9% aren't pointing in the right direction anyway, who's being stupid?

No it isn't. It's about great ac warranty service.

OMG, you're in Thailand.

No, @johnnybangkok simply suggested that you either chose to lurk in <deleted>holes or you are trolling. I reckon it's a bit of both.

Rice is the equivalent of the potato to (most) white folks squatting in Thailand. Cooked potatoes don't keep well outside the fridge and even when refrigerated, better to consume the next day. Our tribe also keep the cooked rice from the night before in the cooker, but anyone using it for breakfast or brunch gives it the careful sniff test first. Otherwise, it's binned by midday. Being in Isaan, our Yai makes the khaoniao (sticky) rice fresh every morning before the rest of the house rises and that's pretty good for all day use if the lid is kept on the bamboo pots.

Me too, but I honestly didn't enjoy the Thailand work nearly as much as the gigs in Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar. Maybe because Thailand was where I came home to from 'overseas' work? For me, working while living in Thailand wasn't so rewarding, both professionally and financially.

I worked here for 30 years, did very well, thank you! But it is possible that if you had worked somewhere other than Thailand, you would be (at least) 5baht, no?

There's a no-charge affidavit that you sign that says the money's a gift and you have no legal claim on the land. It's been that way for decades. Sounds like your local land office maybe wants a "consideration" for doing something that's already perfectly legal and within their remit to do for free. Are we talking about Phuket? The island province where there were already more registered chanotes than actual plots of land decades before the Russians "invaded"?

Wow! That makes a change from the usual "Thai male's fragile ego" denouncement.

Only if you have to sleep in the wet spot.