3 hours ago, thesetat said:

But, in all reality. Soi 6 just lost a lot of customers from tourism for this.

Whats the attraction with Soi 6? I see it mentioned in different places from time to time and from what I gathered its possibly the street to go to in Pattaya for a higher level of degeneracy compared to other streets?

9 hours ago, stoner said:

worth 10 mil because of 300 percent tax. 

There is a massive glut of Taycans in the UK. Im sure they are a great car if you want an EV, just expect to lose well over 50% of your money after 2-3 years ownership, thats if you can find a buyer at all. They look great, thats alot of bang for your buck but nobody wants to touch them for some reason

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/16753392

Cant say I've heard of many go up on fire though. 

On 5/21/2024 at 8:19 AM, Presnock said:

Well, I am not so sure, I still see some asking particular questions about documentation for qualifications, plus clarity in this new interpretation of the tax laws and how they might or might now affect one's quality of living due to taxation or problems associated with the interpretations of the TRD, some might just decide then so that they don't have to think about it for an extended period of time, they might

go ahead and apply for the LTR.  I only go mine a couple of months ago (MARCH) as I have not had any realproblems with my retirement O for 20 years and even with the new tax bit, I only have a US govt pension so felt pretty confident that the DTA would mean no effects from the new interpretation but then looked closely at the BOI LTR and realized it fit me better than any other visa.  Glad I changed.  Happy to stay another 10 years and hopefully worry free as TIT and one never knows...just like this Thursday we might see some unhappy people.

Let's think about this rationally. There are alot of different circumstances but anyway….


 "The personal remittances received in Thailand declined to 8.92 billion U.S. dollars in 2022. Nevertheless, the last two years recorded significant higher personal remittances received than the preceding years.
A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a nonresident worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country. Workers’ remittances are a significant part of international capital flows, especially regarding labor-exporting countries."

So roughly $9B coming into the country that needs to be tracked under these new rules. Excluding use of credit cards and maybe ATMs? There is said to be 300k expats living in Thailand
 

Let's be generous and say they average $100k p.a brought into Thailand. Thats $3B. So that leaves another $6B from Thai/Foreigner abroad sent to Thais in need of money.

I can say with a high degree of certainty the bulk of this would be to people who don't even file a tax return let alone go out of their way to declare money from abroad. How many employed Thais file a tax return anyway, none that I know of I suspect the company deducts tax from the pay and declare a small portion of it and even that likely doesn't happen much. 

The only way this will be enforced is through people voluntarily filing and declaring they remitted money themselves. Filing a tax return would be right at the bottom of things to do for any local living here who are living week/week month/month. Is The government going to go after all of them, they will be waiting a while to see any of it. 

So the RD will be hoping that the potential changes of rules will lead to self enforcement or they will target a select group of people who qualify in the new rules, maybe. Maybe they will target foreigners, Pick a few people off to scare everybody into self enforcement. 

Which brings me back to a post I made in another similar thread, send your money to a Thai friends bank account and withdraw it from the ATM. These rules will be unenforceable for the locals. If you're still worried, Bring a toke amount into your own bank account to show something and do the bulk to a friends. 

I wonder how many threads like this are being started in Thai forums panicking about these new rules, lol, zero. 


 

On 5/18/2024 at 5:23 PM, Presnock said:

If one qualifies, get a BOI LTR - check the benefits and qualificatons.  A wealthy pensioner can avoid having to pay taxes on foreign remittances into Thailand.  The BOI will assist with getting a work permit if the applicant wishes to work in Thailand and by getting the LTR can pay lower taxes on the salary from the employment in Thailand.  Just saying.

Anybody who could qualify should already have it, it's the best visa available in Thailand if you qualify but only suits a very small amount of foreigners that come to Thailand. 

Oh dear, those health experts are at it again. This time Pfizers A-Team Dishing out cancer causing products.

Quality control at these pharma companies seem to be on par with your local fentanyl dealer. Safe and effective

"Zantac became the world's best selling-medicine in 1988 and was one of the first drugs to top $1 billion in annual sales. However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration asked drugmakers to pull Zantac and its generic versions off the market in 2020, after a cancer-causing substance called NDMA was found in samples of the drug."

$250m to settle lawsuits on a many multi billions of sales is a win. A few thousand cases of cancer the cost of doing business.

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/pfizer-offers-up-250-mln-settle-thousands-zantac-cancer-lawsuits-ft-reports-2024-05-16/

1 minute ago, connda said:

The drug corporations don't give a flip about you!  If their product kills or injures you but they still make a substantial profit even after paying out damages?

Correct its all built into the cost risk Analysis. The cost of doing business. Anybody who says any different has not researched the matter. 
Very good podcast on this that digs into the deception of pharma companies and their fairytale studies. More interesting than any action movie but it's not fiction. 

Dr. JOHN ABRAMSON has been on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for twenty-five years, where he teaches health care policy.  He also served as a family physician for 22 years, during which he was named a “top doctor” six times in local, state, and national surveys. He served as an unpaid consultant to the FBI and Department of Justice, including in a case that resulted in the largest criminal fine in U.S. history. 

t Harvard Medical School and a family physician for over two decades. He's the author of the new bke American healthcare and how we can fix it.

In the latest major pharma fail, to put it mildly - 

"$6.48 billion proposed settlement of tens of thousands of lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products contain asbestos and cause ovarian cancer."

https://www.reuters.com/legal/jj-advances-6475-billion-settlement-talc-cancer-lawsuits-2024-05-01/



Another unsafe product dished out with zero quality control it seems from big pharma. Cant even make safe baby bum powder. 

This comes hot on the heels of their Covid vaccines been withdrawn a couple of years ago.
The experts seem to be making a hell of a lot of blunders. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/13/us/politics/johnson-johnson-vaccine-blood-clots-fda-cdc.html









 

12 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Does not gouge

Not yet because it still has competitors. They offer a good service to most people but many people have had issues with account closures too. It looks to be about a 40% price increase for my aud - thai transfers. Another price hike in a long list of price hikes that are well above the official inflation figures. Those figures are total garbage. 

12 hours ago, Skeptic7 said:

Does not gouge

Not yet because it still has competitors. They offer a good service to most people but many people have had issues with account closures too. It looks to be about a 40% price increase for my aud - thai transfers. Another price hike in a long list of price hikes that are well above the official inflation figures. Those figures are total garbage. 

I guess there was no way for Astra Zeneca to know that the vaccine was going to cause people harm? 

But 24 studies said this would never happen again……

Get nailed on changes to income taxes now another 7% slug on foreign products on top. Fabulous 

Show me one person with "long covid" who is unvaccinated, I beg you.
Rarer than bigfoot and the lochness monster combined 

On 5/7/2024 at 7:41 PM, wordchild said:

HK and China will be the best markets to be in for 2024 and 2025, My Opinion FWIW

They have been beaten up for a long time now. Just looking Unicom already bounced back strongly. Power assets holding also which looks very cyclical. These markets seem a good contrarian bet. Why those companies over any others? Alibaba being the most obvious

Some of the ones you mentioned are trading on more than one exchange, why did you choose the exchange you did?

2 hours ago, Sheryl said:

Mood changes linked to drops  in  blood sugar are a common

I was thinking similar but I would be checking to see if she is pre-diabetic. Get some blood tests to check.

HB1AC is a good marker but even better is fasting insulin which will tell you earlier if you are heading in the wrong direction.
Id argue everyone should be getting these checked as a marker for health annually from age 30 onwards and earlier if your overweight. 
Diabetes/blood sugar fluctuations are reversible (diet not pills) and its the root cause of so many issues.

I know for me if I sleep soon after eating I always wake up hungry.

If I go to bed a little hungry Im never hungry when I wake up.

18 hours ago, AnotherOneHere said:

I lived here for 12 years. Never owned or used an aircon. 1 week ago I got one installed. 🥵 Which sums it up for me.

Yes sums up that you're now old, soft and lazy. 😉

2 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

If one wants to make money off weather it's apparently quite easy to BS enough people to mint it.

The propaganda machine is working overtime to convince people that it's all our fault and if we buy an EV and pay more tax the weather will change to utopian.

 

Baaah baaaah.

22 minutes ago, Stevie559 said:

Hi 👋😉
I'd like to do the following:

- Enter on a tourist visa, multiple entry . Use the time to find a condo, etc.
-"Switch" to an investor visa, elite visa, retiree visa, etc. Depending on what's possible - financially i can afford any of these.
 

BUT -
1. is this allowed? And would I need to move out of the country before 'switching' visas?

2. And if i'm NOT in the country,  does it imply i should be in MY home country (the UK&France) or can I apply from ANY other country (i'm thinking vietnam)

The reason I ask is that I don't have 'home base' the moment i leave for SEA, so I have to plan my moves very carefully. I have lived in the PI for a long time so travelling around SAE doesn't scare me, but getting 'stuck' does 
 

Cheers!

Whats an investor visa in Thailand and since you can financially afford it Im guessing you know the requirements?  

Every visa has different requirements but I know with the elite visa you dont need to leave the country. 

When a candidate is as hated as RFK is by the mainstream media (propaganda) then there’s a good chance your on to a winner. Almost as hated as Trump.
The only candidate that I know of that looks to have some integrity and an independent, not part of the uniparty. 
 

I met one of the smarter British tourists here the other day he hid it up his arse when he went on a flight. 

38 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I see a lot of propaganda about how "dangerous" he is but never anything to support it.

Perhaps you can explain just how Trump is dangerous, as I have no idea what you mean by it- is he going to create an army of Brown shirts ( in the next 6 months ) to arrest all the liberals and put them in concentration camps perhaps, or invite the Russians to take over the US, or some such?

 

I suspect you don't actually have anything to back up your rhetoric, so I won't hold my breath waiting for an explanation.

EDIT

Cut her off. Block all comms. Move elsewhere if she knows where you live because you dont want her showing up out of nowhere after a few weeks. Otherwise shut up and deal with it, it's your choice.