Ben Zioner

https://www.facebook.com/reel/1105640914525858 Very pleasant to deal with, fluent english, but according to his own words he is running into a brick wall with the Urologists.

Permanent residents and anyone working here should pay tax. But IMHO everyone else, including tourists should pay a "per day" tourist tax. 200 Baht a day would make sense I reckon. Would be so easy to collect too, pay when you leave or extend. And no DTA, no LTR, etc.. Isn't TRD rather dumb?

I don't.

And yet you use plurals...

My wife called admissions today and they confirmed that SIPH requires a relative full time in the room, as well as the 25% surcharge for non Thais, the latter bing already included in the amounts quotes. So I will have to cancel, as I can't trust a hospital that charges a 30000 a night but cannot provide nurse call bells. So, sadly, I have to go abroad or wait until PAE becomes available in other private hospitals, which I doubt as urologists will be lobbying against it.

Don't like the big ass Phillipinas. Likem slender.

Naahh, he just got peculiar priorities..

Smart, be proud of him.

There have been all sorts of answers, but none in writing. So those who'll get audited in the forthcoming years and a found liable for undeclared income will have to cough up tax + penalties. My wife inquired about me, and the guy said "UN pensionsnot taxable in Thailand", I had never heard of that before... On the other hand he had never heard about the LTR visa, so he took note of RD. 743 and said he'd look it up, which is doubtful.

Reading some of the posts here we have Interesting times ahead, I can tell you...

Yes you are are right, but you may note that in my post I didn't make any discrimination between slobs and rugby players. The latter might be an even greater burden for nearby passengers as they have invasive shoulders. Only laws of physics should apply here, I guess you are aware of the facts that the aircraft take-off weight is factored into the flight fuel consumption.

Yep passengers should have to disclose their weight when buying their ticket. I don't think it is fair to accomodate people weighing over 95 kg in a single seat.

Not if the "elected President" is a KGB plant and had his campaign funded by Russia. BTW the same may happen to Donald once his links to Poo Tin get clarified.

Cigna isn't listed. And is was definitely Siriraj Private. It is a nonsense place, period.

You know that we hack the Pentagon's computers anytime we want?

Unfortunately we got 36 of those potential bricks, and also the smartest engineers on the planet. But this will be more difficult than adapting/copying the Mirage, which was just a couple of steps above the Spitfire. F35 is science fiction of the seventies. Gen 6 will be Star Wars.

Who can brick them anytime he likes. F35 is a system.

Yes and that not only in the US, the whole planet is on the brink with this rogue idiot in power.

Yep out goes Democracy. Within 5 years the world will be back a 1000 years.

Just to illustrate the level of opacity and nonsense of this place have a look at the pearls of idiocy on my admission/cost estimate form. The room charge is 8625 but for two days of hos[italisation they charge 60000, for recovery from what is an outpatient procedure anywhere in the civilised world. And then after paying 30000 a day tou must provide you own nursing care, as in a remote district hospital. Preposterous. And the way this rubbish has been redacted I don't know if I am supposed to pay 360000 of 450000 as they, very officillay, overcharge foreigners by 25%. None of that, ever, at Bumrungrad but saddly they don't do PAE. My most likely alternative will be Prince Court who accept direct payment from Cigna.

It is relatively easy to OCR and edit a statement while editing a copy of a bankbook require artwork. I guess they want both because the banks would probably charge a hell of a lot to verify/certify a dozen of pages of bankbook copies. While a yearly statement is usually 200 Baht.

I dispute that. Thursday I was quoted 60000 only for two nights in their cheapest room. The room per se was about 10000, on which they slap 20k of other costs. And of top of that you MUST have one person, relative or other, with you in the room at all time, preposterous. All that for a procedure that is OP in EU and US. The procedure cost itself (2 hours OR) is 3000000 while in western hospitals (or Radiology clinics) is costs about half the price of a TURP. Also got the blunt statement: "we don't deal with insurances". And on the cost estimate they candidly state that they charge an extra 25% for non Thai citizens. I'll look at Malaysia, or India, again. A bit said because the young Doctor and nurses were great to deal with. They should look for a job at Bumrungrad.

Teasers.

Interesting, it confirms todays reality that Canadians are a lot smarter than US people. Also, but this has been known for a long time, the French are smarter than the Brits.

The ones who owe something (IT) to Thailand are the naturalised citizens and permanent residents, all the others, most of us, are just glorified tourists. Getting us to pay income tax is an aberration. But I could understand a flat rate tourist/residence tax something like 200 Baht a day for all; countries like Bhutan charge a lot more. Such a tax would also have the benefit to deter lots of the undesirables we have now.