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Also, if one has stumbled home winless and alone after a night of bar trawling and still hankering for some distaff company, a tiny dab of nam pla on the upper lip, just below the nostrils, will help you when you crack one off at the wrist thus ensuring a good night's sleep.

Plenty of new "inactive posts" then?

You got that right Toby. Mate of mine who has been a Thailand "two week millionaire" for the past 15 years or so was looking forward to retirement earlier this year, selling his house in the UK and doing the beer and skittles thing until sunset in Thailand. He finally got an accountant to sort out his pensions who gave him the same advice as I was giving him in DO NOT sell your UK property and bail out too soon. Too many have crashed and burned in Thailand, due either to a profligate lifestyle or bad (uninsured) health issues. Some of the latter that were availing themselves of free NHS treatment (you know who you are) can no longer afford the air fare and live a perilously unhealthy existence here. Anyway, we came to a win-win deal where if he does lose the plot and sells his UK home. I will buy it and when it's time for him to come home with his tail between his legs, I promise to be a decent landlord.

If you are talking about taxed earnings from employment, then the reciprocal taxation agreement means if you have already paid tax on the earned income, it won't be taxed again. If it's pension income you are referring to, I thought all UK pensions, be they government or private, were subject to taxation when disbursed?

Cool! When're you leaving?

Not quite. The Revenue Department Order being discussed here is not a law. The order is guideline for Revenue Department officials. Wasn't it also published in the Royal Gazette? That's usually as official as anything gets around here.

If ever there was a candidate for the perpetual door warning... Mind how you fly.

The great majority of us don't live here on retirement visas. We live on yearly extensions. And you know what retirement visa holders and yearly extension holders have in common? Living and breathing. Whether it is obtained from an embassy or consulate outside Thailand or from an Immigration Office inside Thailand, the immigration entitlement of a person living in Thailand has no bearing on tax their liability. None whatsoever.

What more of a clarification can anyone need? You are 'tax resident' if you are living and breathing inside Thailand for 180 days or more in a year. If your country has a reciprocal (dual) taxation agreement with Thailand, and you have been paying tax in either one but not both, your tax obligations remain unchanged. If you believe that any reciprocal (dual) taxation agreement means that you aren't liable for taxes in either and don't have to do anything, there's a problem with your comprehension. If you think that nobody can tax your pension, either in the country that pays it, or the country where you receive it, that is also a problem with your comprehension.

Why so coy? Since this UK banking malaise isn't unique to Barclays, please post your experience with NW.

...but have failed miserably at exercising that right for over eleven years already. In fact, "we in the UK" have been a stellar example of serial electoral failure every couple of years since 2015.

Are you one of those guys that like to watch other guys grind mechanically in one position like a robot?

Well that does it for me. I'm moving all my Barclays money to my Coutts account.

You just shush now, you're getting @Celcius all aroused.

The more I travel, the less enamoured I am with airports and layovers. The IAH-NRT flight was a godsend when I was living in the US and working in Vietnam. My poor opinion of Qatar economy cattle cars to the UK is tempered by their thankfully shortish Doha layovers. A couple of ~6 hour flights back-to-back with just enough time to change gates is almost perfect. Before the Ukraine ruckus queered their pitch, Finnair's +11 hour non-stop in Business Class was great with KLM's similarly lengthy jaunt via Hamsterjam a close second even in Coach as that's a decent airport to kick back for a few hours. My 'trick' for long haul flights is to stay awake as long as possible in the 24-hours before departure. Check-in, board and drag yourself to your window seat but tell the crew supervisor you do NOT want to be wakened up to eat. I'm fast asleep before push back and awake and refreshed well before the serial movie, nap and a crap breakfast crowd block up the bathrooms before landing. Airplanes are for sleeping in, but you need to be tired. Airports are for passing through, but you need to be wide awake.

Forget about what @bkk6060 said, where were the 'facts' in your puerile comment? (rhetorical)

No worries and agreeing to disagree is fine. Some of the BKP's most virulent commentators are all about shooting the messenger with ad hominem attacks that suggest they know more about the commenter they are assassinating than they probably do, while offering nothing with regard to the subject matter. The moderation here seems to take that aspect off the forum which, in my opinion, serves the forum's functionality better? It's about having opinions on another member's opinions and nothing to do with the member's intelligence, sexual proclivities or online personality, be it real or affected.

Regards Worgeordie

Too much information...

So a grown woman that is the victim of rape isn't left with "psychological trauma for all her life, with consequences which we men can barely imagine"? All rapists, regardless of the age of the victim, should get the same punishment.

That's not a forum. That's a self-centred posse of over-opinionated and laughably ignorant blow hards who like to post school yard insults about fellow contributors, mostly alluding to some sort of criminal activity with minors. They wouldn't probably didn't last a week over here in "ignore list land" but somehow they seem to thrive in the shallower waves of self-aggrandisement that the bangkok post readers comments offers to these otherwise insufferably nauseating, Thai bashing soap boxers. Using the collective "we" suggests that you are part of a clique.

You can ignore people in a public setting but ignoring unknown persons on an otherwise anonymous internet forum seems all a bit strange. Unless the forum is where you spend too much a lot of time.

Oh look! Here's the ever-helpful @Nick Carter icp again!

All right bob, what have you gone and done now?

You hang around the knocking shops watching the guys? I see.