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Well, I have made it a hobby to follow retirement visa programs all over the world for over 20 years. I'm here to say that by no means is Thailand the only country that makes policy changes and it isn't the worse case either. So you really never know what you're getting yourself into wherever you move! The worse case that I recall is when Colombia used to have a "lifetime" visa and people had such stamps in their pasports and overnight they downgraded "lifetime" to five years.

What I did was change my finances in such a way that I had a few years to see how this actually shook out. Under the current rules, there are still definitely a lot of expats who are technically in a position of needing a TIN, filing, and paying.

I'm sure glad I didn't fork over 50K baht to Joe Schmoe "Fine" Taxation Advisors for a consultation! Think of all the people who have left Thailand or are spending over half the year outside Thailand to dodge a bullet that apparently isn't coming. Thailand -- never a null moment.

You mean the American left that loves Bernie Sanders?

Yes an alien species dependent on eye liner.

A totally insane trolling post.

Wine should not be a luxury.

His amoral narcissistic impulses combined with creeping mental deterioration as happened to his racist father are controlling him.

Yep.

Just words. Let's see ACTION!

Small self correction. That Trump clip posted was recent That doesn't change my message one bit though. Trump is still Putin's poodle unless and until.he actually DOES stuff to alter that narrative. To wit.

Some do. Being a Jew doesn't necessarily mean following Judaism. Santas aren't exactly about Christianity anyway!

Passport same day impossible. Maybe for an emergency travel passport if you've lost your passport. 6 to 8 weeks is the standard info but many reports of passport applications by mail turning around in a month. It's possible unfortunately that things might be slower now because of deep staff cuts at the state department.

A good summary of the new tax news so far.

Don't be absurd. Are you that dense that this old news fools you!?! It's just a game he occasionally plays for political cover because he knows the majority of Americans support Ukraine. If Trump was really ever to stop being Putin's poodle he would Ally with Europe to put on bone crashing sanctions on Russia including countries that buy Russian oil Commit to arming Ukraine to the point they could win when combined with Russia falling apart economically. Officially acknowledge that Putin doesn’t want peace or even a ceasefire. He only wants total surrender and/or total victory to erase Ukrainisn sovereignty.

So like Trump you appear to blame Ukraine for this. You know this was where Russia invaded Ukraine (starting in 2014).

Putin uses nuclear threats to neuter weak minded westerners.

You would have said opponents to Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh were narrow minded.

Yeah. I consider him a traitor. But really these are different topics. Trump's perverted alliance with Putin vs. Trump's attempt to be the American equivalent of Putin in his own regime.

There have been so many ways and words to try to describe the absolute FACT that the Trump/Maga regime 2.0 is some kind of flavor of extremely corrupt anti-democratic authoritarianism. Has Garry Kasparov come up with the best fitting word yet?

The ugly bill adds trillions to the debt.

Thick with ignorance and bigotry.

Not in effect yet and may never be, but IF it does come into effect it would shocking if it didn't apply to Thai tax residents as well (expats).

Yeah that surprised me too. But I think it was only 2500 dollars and he's doing quite well on his channel and is good for it. Or at least he better hope so! Local mafia? What ISN'T mafia here? He is crazy into cars but he really does need them as he does content on them on two different channels and also he needs to drive around alot for content for his daily vlogs. He's really a very funny, likeable, and entertaining character mixed with a sophisticated sarcasm uncommon at his young age. He puts it all out there. Very different people except both being Russians, but I think he has NFKRZ international youtube star potential. Both started getting heavily into youtube at a very young age. Ivan started while he was a student in Ireland. And it doesn't hurt that many watching his channel tend to perv on his very pretty Russian girlfriend (current away on trip).

The Lancet Medical Journal.