lordgrinz

Don't give them any ideas!

This is Thailand, the land of corruption, accepted by all levels of society.......I'd be more inclined to believe it's from ill-gotten gains.

I am in that not rich enough (actually just staying afloat) to make a difference, but enough to where they hit me with taxes that inconvenience me. Lets say my wife makes 1.4 million baht per year, she reduces her taxes to 860,000 with deductions .......where she pays 86000 baht with me on her taxes (all deductions applied), then I add say 1,000,000 to the tax return for the year, I calculate we would pay 245,000 more baht in Thai taxes. That 1,000,000 will probably be tax free in the USA, so I am paying money I don't want to pay to Thailand. Not liking the future here, not that I like it now.

Yes, these are the same idiots I see speeding in and out of traffic, only problem is that a pickup truck is very light in the back....making them highly unstable when jerking the wheel side to side like they are in some type of cup car race.....do that in the rain with wide tires? Well, then you have a new news story for Thai rags of a pickup slamming into a multitude of inanimate objects or pedestrians with disastrous results.

Remember, they want you to pay exorbitant amounts of taxes while 90% of their citizens don't, so you can then pay 10x what those freeloading citizens do to enter these parks, along with other perks paid for on your dime. They should be worshipping the ground we walk on, not treating us like indentured servants.

They should also take away their ability to operate as Taxi drivers, they've proven themselves unworthy.

Watching the drama in the RTP Mafia is like watching a daytime soap opera.

I fully know where I am, Thai Bureaucratic Hell.

Yup, not sending a single baht into my Thai account until I am in danger of falling below the 400,000 level.......crossing my fingers that I have enough to last me a while, or at least until all the smoke clears.

Like you, I don't understand the attraction here, if not for my wife and daughter, I would be out of here forever. This is the biggest cesspool I have ever seen, I mean there are some horrible places (inner cities) in the USA too, but I lived in a rural town in the NE where comfortable/safe living is the norm. Now throw these Thai tax changes in the list of annoyances of living here? This place then becomes what I can only describe as Hell on Earth to someone like me, I hate it here with a passion!

Welcome to the 3rd World.

The RTP is the "hub" of corruption, Big Joke is no exception, its endemic (not only in the RTP, but in Thai culture).

"...I never broke the law, I AM THE LAW!"

I'm calling BS, I'll believe it when I see it, I haven't seen a single vehicle or driver enforced rule/law since I got here 8 years ago......this is a declaration to please the masses, but has no teeth, especially since there isn't a police force to enforce it.

See this behavior every day, I assume most Thai drivers are trying to commit suicide. Until proper road tests are conducted and administered by qualified instructors/evaluators, this bloodbath and property damage will continue. But none of that will matter if they don't make the RTP get out of their air conditioned shacks and on to the streets enforcing road rules/laws.

The Royalist Elite, and their military muscle.

That doesn't look like a "Tuk Tuk" it looks like a "songthaew".

If the perp were snuffed out tomorrow, I wouldn't lose a second of sleep over it, no matter who did the good deed.

So it worked exactly the way it was supposed to, good.

If he doesn't watch out..... a black van, a belly full of cement, and a river bottom might be his next stop.

I agree, all countries should not allow foreigners to own land if they are not citizens.

Inching closer to a Civil War, to tell you the truth, I think it's inevitable......but needed.

I'm biting the bullet too for now. Cleaning the house and cars, doing laundry, walking the dog, exercising, taking care of my daughter through middle school while my wife gets the glory working as a director in higher education at a hospital in Bangkok. But I am now catching up on a lot more reading, just purchased a new Kindle (6 books this month alone) 😉

I don't even understand what the endgame in Ukraine is, they aren't going to win, if anything this could eventually spark a World War (with a NUCLEAR POWER!). If the West had stayed out of politics in Ukraine back when it was under different rulers, this would never have happened. We shouldn't have been screwing around in Russia's backyard to begin with, anyone with half a brain would have known Putin would annex Crimea where he had an important military base to protect. This whole thing at this point is nothing more than a cash grab for the military industrial complex and politicians looking to grab their share of loot in the process. Meanwhile people are dying in this lost proxy war, and the cost to rebuild after it is all done will be worse yet.

10,000 Euros a month? Out of my league....LOL But yes, worried about the cost failure, family hating it there, and me being 55 is not exactly a great age to find work after spending the last 3 years unemployed (My employer got bought out while I was here as a digital nomad, I was let go in the transition - took 3 years for the new owners to get rid of me though....LOL)