TroubleandGrumpy

There is plenty of details - a nutter tried to kill Trump - I also do not think he was a right wing supporting Jan 6 invading election denier.

They think they can change what the definition of a woman is - therefore they think they can change anything that does not fit their 'narrative'.

I have an estimate from 2 tax companies - including the use of a DTA - and their estimates ranged from 70K to 90K. I think a simple basic online lodgement would be 20K - not one involving as DTA claim for exemptions/allowances as per my estimates. But as I said before, the 3rd company I asked actually said that because I had no taxes to be paid, there was no need to lodge a tax return.

No need for them to keep spewing their hatred - Trump has now experienced first hand what it results in. Unlike Reagan who let it go, Trump will become emboldened and will be embarking on a serious campaign of 'removal' unlike any POTUS before him. The Swamp and the Dems have come back hard, and their supporters have created an atmosphere in which a nutter has decided to take action. This will be a turning point in USA politics and I just read this quote and it is perfect:- “This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can’t be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won’t be done. The Founders’ Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.” “But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.” ~ Mike Vanderboeg

Nothing has changed as far as the Thai tax system is concerned - the rule change affects Thais who have been claiming tax exemptions. Last year it was the same rules - technically we Expats who remitted over 60K PA were supposed to lodge a tax return. Does anyone really believe that TRD are going to audit all Expats living in Thailand? TRD have no idea if anyone is Working, Education, Married, Retired, etc. If they do, then are they going to go backwards for all Expats who have lived in Thailand and have not lodged a tax return for the past 10 years? Obviously not. Going forward the TRD may take a more proactive approach - maybe. We have to wait and see what TRD provides by December 2024 - until then we do not know - no matter what the rules state - they have stated that since decades ago. Wait and see how it goes if/when releases their 'instructions' on how to do a tax return in 2025. I hope they will be giving retired/married Expats the same leeway that Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam etc. offers - you are free to bring your money into our country and spend it here - we dont provide you any services and rights or representation - and you do pay VAT and other taxes when buying things. Thailand taxing Expats makes as much sense as Thailand taxing Tourists - we are technically and legally the same.

Nothing has changed as far as the Thai tax system. Last year it was the same rules - technically we Expats who remitted over 60K PA were supposed to lodge a tax return. But TiT and the rules are a guideline. Advice I have is simple - no taxes to pay - do not lodge a tax return. Does anyone really believe that TRD are going to audit all Expats living in Thailand? TRD have no idea if anyone is Working, Education, Married, Retired, etc. If they do, then are they going to go backwards for all Expats who have lived in Thailand and have not lodged a tax return for the past 10 years? Obviously not. Going forward the TRD may take a more proactive approach - maybe. We have to wait and see what TRD provides by December 2024 - until then we do not know - no matter what the rules state - they have stated that since decades ago. Wait and see how it goes if/when releases their 'instructions' on how to do a tax return in 2025.

Mate - IMO it will be difficult to 'declare correctly' any financial information to TRD under a global system - let alone a brokerage account. Just look at all the impossible BS Immigration requires from us with regards to their forms and documents - and from Immigration, Foreign Affairs, and the Amphur when we get officially married. I cannot see that TRD will just accept a bank statement made by a foreign bank printed out from an online download - just look at what they demand from their own banks. How about 'taxation records' from your home country's Tax Dept - from January to December when their financial year is July to June or May to April - and getting that in an approved format and quickly enough to lodge before end March? Good luck with getting all that done - I know mu Tax Dept in Australia will say No - because I already asked - and fair enough, imagine all their work if every taxpayer can get detailed records from any month to any month - they aint gonna do it. IMO under a global system it will be extremely difficult to provide 'correct' financial records to TRD for those reasons above, and because under the PIT system in each Province the TRD Officers have little to no understanding or knowledge of how overseas financial arrangements work in each country. If Thailand goes to a global system of taxation, and therefore taxes are liable on all money overseas, not just that remitted into Thailand, then that becomes a whole new level of difficulty. My advice from one of those legal/tax companies was that companies get that all done by accredited tax/legal agents (and pay big for it) and that TRD rarely ask for further details - but those same TRD Officers are not those in the Provinces doing PIT returns.

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True and a lot of Expats who live/visit Thailand (for the bars, girls, drugs) definitely match your description. If the same thing had happened to Biden and right wingers said what lefties are now saying here, they would certainly be attacked relentlessly (and deserve to be). But those with <removed> and other delusional liberal views, have no Metacognition - which is also very common in Feminists and those suffering 'gender dysphoria' and other loony left wingers as well.

Mate - they have no idea. They are like those delusional idiots protesting against oil by blocking roads and those supporting Palesinian terrorists, and they are about to get a wake up call - big time. The games as you said are about to begin ..........

The POTUS is Head of DOJ and FBI etc - and can sack or hire staff as he/she sees fit. I know most posters dont know SFA about USA but surely you know that one bit?? Bidens' appointees are all liberal left-wing supporters - they have been pursuing Trump and Jan6 protestors and anyone attacking the 2020 election and any other Trump supporter they can get at - they have been politicised/weaponised - and Trump is going to do it back at them. Elections has consequence - the Dems are going to know exactly what that - both sides are now playing dirty and it is going to get ugly.

I hear your sentiment - but your 'answer' is 100% wrong. Many reasons but number one is that making a law and enforcing that law, does not stop people doing it - drugs, murder, rape, etc. Chicago has a lot of shootings and killings every week - 100+ last weekend - but hand guns are outlawed there. The problem is mentally unstable people being allowed to stay in a society where guns are very prevalent.

Dont waste your time mate - block and live in peace never seeing the rubbish he/she/it writes.

Was. They are now officially copulated at the ballot box. They will either try some other distraction (Ukraine) or they will start preparing for when Trump's DOJ and FBI comes after them. Trump's DOJ and FBI will be managed by very few of the current senior people in charge - they will also be investigated.

Lets agree to block each other - but first - do you remember the funeral processions of Reagan and Thatcher? You know, the ones where all those lefty political protestors shouted abuse and threw things at the processions?? THAT is what left wing people do - and I guarantee that it never happens when a lefty President/PM dies - because right wing people are not mad as hatters.

All the way mate - Trump is the enemy of the swamp and they fear his 2nd Presidency more than they fear anything else, because they are going to be investigated and charged and completely decimated. They should have down-played 2020 and not used the Covid situation to allow their demented supporters to create so many fake mailed-in votes. We all know Biden was not supposed to win - it was his 'reward' for decades of support and for being depositioned by Killary as candidate in 2016. Trump has had 4 years to plan what he is going to do when he becomes POTUS again - and they are scared to death. No they did not plan this - nor did they plan what happened in 2020 - they created the atmosphere of hatred to wards Trump that lead to this shooting - they did the same for Reagan and it failed then too - but it worked for Lincoln who took their slaves away and destroyed their corrupted system of State Governments. I fear that they will next try to start a pseudo WW3 by inflaming Ukraine to do something seriously stupid, and thus generate the ultimate distraction to Trump destroying their entrenched corruption.

I can see why you are nobody's friend mate. Trump is going to think about it for sure - and his response is going to be to double down on everything. The GOP itself will also be re-thinking their internal politics - time for all the RINOs and Trump haters to go the same way as Liz Cheney and all her corrupted war mongering mates - out the door.

Make no mistake about it mate - left wing people are in the majority, are not good people. That is why so many of the ***bags and sexpats that infest Pattaya are left wing nutters. Absolute proof is their attempted jokes and support of the assassination attempt - contemptable people. I certainly am no fan of Biden or Clinton and Obama, but I do not want them killed by some random right wing nutter (maybe Killary).

Just block and ignore mate - total nutter/troll. This thread is revealing them all. Lefty or Righty is does not matter - they will react to this story like they always do. Dont argue - just block them - life is too short..

Blocked left nutter - this thread should reveal them all I hope.

Because the nutter left wing supporters have views that are all because of their emotional beliefs - they will never understand what has happened until the outcomes smack them in the face/rear end. The People of America (the ones with most of the guns), have now had enough of the duplicitous lying attacks on Trump and the constant race baiting and gay issues baiting tactics used by the Democrats to marginalise the people. IMO they are going to pay big time - it is the Dems that has caused the divide in America and unlike in that idiotic movie - the 'right' side is going to win and end this divide one way or another. The gloves are off - they tried to kill the people's President - and the people are going to make them pay.

While claiming all far right nutters represent MAGA lefty nutters deny one of your own - they need to own it and grow up and face reality. Biden made a speech saying "Unite This Country" - what a effin joke - this demented lunatic and his political Party and their media mates have been attacking Trump relentlessly for years. Remember this 'speech' below where he claimed MAGA was a threat to Democracy and the American people? If you stir up your supporter base with hatred and lies - this is what happens. Same thing happened to Reagan - and Lincoln.

IMO based upon current TRD 'practice' they dont want 1 or 2 - which does ignore the technical BS literal rules - but that is their decision. Immigration and TRD also do not enforce the Law that states all Foreigners must get a tax clearance certificate before leaving Thailand. Immigration does not enforce the literal words in the TM30 Law and many other Laws. Police do not enforce the rules (much) regarding wearing a helmet - and many other traffic rules. Thailand does not follow the centralised nanny state government process where every single thing they do is written down in a rule or in a regulation, and where every single person can challenge them if they do anything that is not strictly within those rules and regulations, or challenge them if they do something that is contrary to those rules and regulations. Compliance with every single literal rule and regulation, and armies of bureaucrats constantly updating and amending those rules and regulations, and another army training all the bureaucrats on any new changes or amendments, is NOT how Thailand operates. That is why in Thailand, the reality is that Officers across all Government positions have full legal autonomy in their interpretation and application of the 'rules'. TRD has made it clear what they want - they do not want 10s of millions of unneeded tax returns - but they are not going to rewrite the rules - but they can change that at any time - stay tuned folks.

More confirmation that the advice I got, not to lodge a tax return is correct, and that TRD does not want people to lodge a tax return if they are not employed and if they have no tax to pay or to claim back. That is why as advised by the other tax expert, TRD does not chase retired/married old Expats living in Thailand or all the 10s of millions of Thais that do not lodge a return. No is that official -= NO - but it is how TRD has operated with regards to filing a tax return. Will that change this year - maybe - stay tuned. As stated before, I have calculated that I have no tax to pay in Thailand, after allowances, exemptions and DSTA provisions, so therefore I will not be lodging a tax return - and I will be keeping detailed records of those calculations and the financial records used - unless TRD states that I and 10s of millions of other Thais must lodge a tax return.