Ben Zioner

I have a list of adjectives, you can PM me if you want to know.

But I and my pension may well get caught in this amateurish fiasco. If I had to pay Income tax it would cost me 850000 a year, I'd be glad to contribute this to help make Thailand a better country my girls could grow and live in. But we all know this money would only feed more lazy and corrupt government agents.

Yes, couldn't boomboom for about a week.

Thanks, I attach the text of the Decree. I have no idea it this has, will, can be repealed by the tax change. dc743_ENG_Google.pdf dc743.pdf

There's a lot to fear for the Thai middle class from a billionaire populist Prime Minister. Buy the masses and don't offend your peers will be his motto.

Also, now that the Government wants to tax my pension I have explored the deductions that are allowed for family support. I found out that the maximum deduction from taxable income for one child is a preposterous 30000 a year. That's some incentive, isn't? Nappies and formula alone will cost over 100000 a year.

Ridiculous editing once more, it can't be a rate of [1.5] 2.1 per 100,000 population. Must be 21 per 1000 [or 1.5 per 100]. But I know thai Thais have problems understanding the meaning of zeros.

Numbers likely to dwindle if they renege on the tax advantages. Yes T.I.T.

Please read again and ponder over the meaning of "in any tax year".

You are right, it is income earned in the "said year" brought into the kingdom in "any year", after January 9 though, that becomes taxable. Thanks google translate. So the poster who suggested to transfer one or two years income before January 9 was right.

Maybe, but the LTR/WP differs from other visas such as Thailand Elite in that tax exemption is advertised as one of its main benefits. None of the other retirement visa offers such benefit. Until now all pensioners who transferred their income in the year of earning were technically taxable, but the Tax Office chose to ignore this situation and might to it again. Thais would say that pensions aren't taxable, but that only true as their miserable benefits are, for the vast majority, below 150000 per annum.

BOI/LTR WP

Do you really think that economy class passengers are getting ripped off by airlines? It is the First and Business class passengers that make the profit (if any) of the airlines.

Reckon this would be unfair?

Well they have been doing this for decades. It is calle business class. Can't complain about leg room when one pays 800 USD for a GVA/BKK.

About 10 Satang a Calorie.

For an individual of this quality, joining the ADF would make more sense IMHO. He might not end up caught on the wrong side of the fence. Also, Australia flies the F35 and doesn't cry for Diesel submarine engines.

Hardly luxury at 3364 Baht per night. But that's no excuse for not giving proper compensation. Giving 100000 is an insult in this case.

Hilarious. Just said that their service was outstanding. No one could expect a free outstanding service. Would you? And don't know of any other IT brand who systematically replace damaged or faulty gear.

Well, my guess is that any sensible person would buy an Apple care + plan. Just as anyone in his right mind would make sure to have proper health cover. But I am not sure it is wise to say so here.

Doesn't matter, it was indeed covered by Apple care+. But the point is that they didn't replace the screen, they took a brand new Ipad out of stock, sent us off to have a coffee somewhere while they copied all data, settings and apps from the old tablet to the new one. Apple doesn't tinker, or rarely, they replace damaged units and sent the old ones to factory for refurbishing. Also I had a Macbook pro that got badly damaged by a swollen battery, keyboard, and full body needed replacement, they asked me to pay 7000 Baht for battery replacement and replaced the unit. Took a while because my keyboard showed hebrew caracters.

I guess you in your usual state of abject belligerent drunkenness.

I know the topic is Iphone 15, so this just a short story for the Apple haters. My 8 years old somehow broke the screen of her Ipad, so off we go to the Central World Apple store. There they check our appointment and Apple care status, look at the tablet and their computer system and after a couple of minutes: "Lucky you are we got one in stock, you get a new one". Tell me if you know another brand with a service like that.

Abject failure of a dog.

OMG, I can see how difficult this is going to be..