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Internet descriptions of the documents required to get a Tax Identification Number (TIN) for a foreign individual vary.  Does getting a TIN in Bangkok (specifically at the tax office in Khannayao district) require a residence certificate from Immigration? I really don't want to have to go to that ghastly place more often than I need to.

1 hour ago, ballpoint said:

Funny. He doesn't look catholic.

Oh, pay attention.  His targets were little girls - not little boys.

The online pharmacies tend to be rather expensive.  You would be better to contact the likes of PB Pharmacy and Diamond Pharmacy.  Both have large operations with relatively cheap prices.

The official price is shown at https://www.goldtraders.or.th/

The site is in Thai, but it's the third of the quotes - currently 41,000.00 baht per baht.

4 minutes ago, hkt83100 said:

The sound samples are so wrong in every way 😞 Mozart would revolt in his grave.

Mozart, a composer, would decompose in his grave.

5 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

Probably trying to stay awake as there are no restrictions on who many hours they drive.

I thought that was why they took the yaa baa.

10 minutes ago, Hamus Yaigh said:

Liquidity is what drives markets

If that were true, the UK market would have performed far better than it has.  Since the start of the millennium the FTSE 100 is up about 25% - pretty much 1% per year.  And it's on a P/E ratio of 14.2.

What you're seeing in Thailand is almost certainly False Ashoka (Monoon longifolium), rather than Ashoka (Saraca asoca) which is a rainforest tree.

I suggest you work your way through the reading course at https://thai-notes.com/reading/index.html

There are so many irregularities and idiosyncrasies in Thai that you'll struggle if you try to work it out for yourself.

9 minutes ago, Yumthai said:

I'd personally rather invest into USD S&P500 or Nasdaq-100 ETFs, more liquid and internationally diversified.

S&P 500 only includes companies listed on American stock exchanges.  Nasdaq 100 is 95.3% US companies.  Not quite sure how you could consider either to be "internationally diversified".

38 minutes ago, Yumthai said:

Maybe because US stock market has historically (and still) outperformed any other stock market over the long term.

Tosh.  The Australian market has outperformed the US markets over the last 120 years.

https://www.quantifiedstrategies.com/best-performing-stock-markets-in-the-world/

I presume you're an American who has American "exceptionalism" banged into their brains since birth.  Just ain't true.

3 minutes ago, Yellowtail said:

How are they dangerous? 

Think about the enormous amount of safety testing that a vehicle has to go through before being put on the market.  These tin sheds have no testing at all.

6 minutes ago, Digitalbanana said:

Generally, US estate tax applies to assets physically located in the US, and stocks are considered intangible assets that are not subject to estate tax based solely on the location of the issuing company.

Pretty sure that's wrong.  To quote KPMG

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Non-US persons are subject to US estate tax on the value of their tangible and intangible assets located in the United States ... Intangible assets in this context most often refer to stocks in a United States corporation ... Ownership of these kinds of US assets triggers US estate taxes on the value of these assets, regardless of whether their owner resides in the USA or abroad.

 

https://kpmg.com/ch/en/insights/taxes/us-citizien-estate-tax-implications-non-us-residents.html#:~:text=Non-US persons are,the USA or abroad.

 

I recently was dealing with a lawyer who specialised in domicile matters and he advised me to avoid stock market investments in both the US and the UK since both these countries impose death taxes upon in situ assets such as equities registered in the respective countries.  The US tax threshold is very low US$ 60,000, and the UK one GBP 325,000.

One often sees pickup trucks with a tin shed fitted over the cargo bed.  This seems to me to be dangerous.  Is it actually legal in Thailand?

Why to Thai truck drivers blow their air horns rhythmically all hours of day and night? Anyone know?

15 hours ago, Gaccha said:

I'm searching for a brokerage for Thai residents that gets access to the widest variety of American ETFs for a non-American & non-Thai, and that can be opened in Thailand. 

I'm left wondering why?

(1) Why opened in Thailand? Did you mean opened from Thailand? If so, then any of the large US brokers which accepts overseas clients would do the job.  My first choice would be Interactive Brokers.  I checked on two of the ETFs on the list, and it has them.

(2) Why would a non-US person invest in US domiciled assets when they would face death taxes on any amount above US$60,000?

3 hours ago, SouthThailand said:

Get your own transport.

But don't expect to be able to find anywhere to park.  There are massive works going on at the moment.  Several of the roads are shut.  And parking is currently incredibly congested. 

The link in the first post is wrong.  It should be 

https://loyaltylobby.com/2024/08/22/bangkok-airport-removes-fast-track-immigration-on-arrival-for-first-business-class-travelers/

1 minute ago, recom273 said:

a hoopee, which I love to see

Do you mean hoopoe? The colourful bird with the spectacular crest?

I'm guessing that such money would be distributed through the local kamnan who will take a large cut for doing the distribution.  It's happened before.

From the description, treeshrew or moonrat.