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The CRS form is for all foreigners.

To add, the recommended Thai restaurant above is in Jomtien if you didn’t know those streets. So delivery to Jomtien and south and central Pattaya should be good. To most easily find it on Grab search for ห่อข้าว

But filing requirements are different from paying tax requirements.

You're saying it's written into law how many days to fly the flag at half mast at official locations after a president dies? It's still about three weeks until the dystopian American Carnage speech 2.0 so unless there really is such a law I would say no.

Why should he have been trusted after Syria and Crimea?

I recall the unsuccessful rescue attempt of the hostages in Tehran. I wonder how things would have been different if it had succeeded.

His one term in office wasn't great. The country learned about grits and gas lines. After his term, he became a humanitarian icon. What's not to love about Jimmy Carter? What a sweetheart. Showing in his deeds the good side of Christianity as opposed to the current dominant toxic hate filled fundamentalists. He said he had stayed alive to vote one last time for Harris to try to beat the incoming autocratic demagogue president elect Trump in his beloved swing state of Georgia. Character-wise Trump and Carter are polar opposites. So the timing of his death now is no surprise. He had been in hospice care since February. Will Biden and Trump both show up at his funeral together? Awkward.

Best Pad Krapow in town! (For my taste) Pad Krapow may be the national dish of Thailand but it varies quite a lot from place to place. Years ago the version at the long closed Boat Restaurant on 2nd road was my ideal Pad Krapow. But since then I eat it less because I haven't found a place that does it my way. Well now I have. Not only does this place have the best Pad Krapow in town (for my taste) but is also in the running for an exceptionally good basic Made to Order restaurant in general (with a few odd quirks). The place is called Heo-Kaow Kitchen aka Hor Khao Restaurant no English sign on Thepprasit road beach side in the same block coming from Tappraya. But you don't want to eat there! Why? Because it's a smoke fest in there from all the cooking although you might want to go once to meet the wonderful friendly proprietor lady chef. No English menu in the restaurant. Order on GRAB instead which has an English menu. Same prices as the restaurant. Typical Thai style price level like 60 baht Pad Krapow rice with egg and 150 seafood tomyum which might seem a little high but it's packed with seafood. Everything I've had there so far is very good and expect that will continue. But here's the glitch -- no salads (yams) and no curries. But other than that the menu is robust and tom kha gai might substitute OK for a curry. Also no pad Thai which I give it points for. On the grab menu there is a spice level list in Thai. The top one is no spice The next two are low spice (fresh or dried chile) The next two medium spice The last two very spicy Special requests are followed precisely. Such as runny egg (I wrote in Thai on Grab) and minced meat (if you choose chicken, you need to say, pork has the option). One thing that really amazed me is that on one order I asked for no spice on one dish and top spice on another and that's how they came! Almost all Thai restaurants will peg you spice wise and do all the dishes one way or the other. In other words if you ask for mild pak boong and spicy tom yum you'll likely get mild everything or spicy everything. I don't know that she really needs the extra business, but now you know. Don't all order at once.

It tasted deep fried to me.

Fancy some Persian food? Israeli food isn't Palestinian food. It's a fusion of different cultures with of course Arabic origins being important. I like the spicier Yemenite Jewish origin dishes. Israeli kids are crazy for chicken schnitzel. Does that sound Palestinian? I can understand in the current environment why some Israeli restaurants might want to play games like the Iranians did with Persian. Nobody owns foods. Does Italy get a commission for every pizza?

It wasn't hit intentionally. But once hit they wanted to bury the evidence in the Caspian sea.

Generations.

Vladimir thanks you.

The accidental targetting was somewhat understandable and excusable in the fog of war (although there should be no civilian aviation in such areas) but the refusal to allow landing and sending it over the Caspian Sea hoping to sink it was a crime of unspeakable evil.

This video speaks to this topic and yes it is critical of both red and blue but is clear that giving power back to Trump was definitely NOT the answer.

It's basically hopeless. An American politician can't even whisper economic inequality without being red baited.

It is. Yiddish shvartze is now a slur though. But in the context of native Yiddish speakers speaking among themselves שוואַרץ is neutral as black. A grandfather of mine native Yiddish speaker worked with black people and used the S word. He wasn't Martin Luther King but the tone and context that he used with the word was kind of ambiguous, like in between neutral and slur. Meanings of words change over time. Mel Brooks is funny and that joke was funny. Often with comedy it works to be edgy. A comedian today wouldn't go there of course.

I have worked closely with many Indian engineers on such visas. All very competent and more hard working than Americans. Interestingly though I did notice that the super star super creative most valuable employees were generally Americans and sometimes Russians.

We can no longer say Trump was a fluke.

Propaganda.

The topic here is the Russian war on Ukraine.

You won't accept anything negative about Putin.

That is very true but as I'm in Jomtien (Pattaya) there must be thousands of U.S. expats remitting non-exempt retirement account money. So here and at other expat havens details about how the local TR offices are dealing with these very common vehicles have a better chance of being revealed before too long. Another fun thing which is being emphasized by the Integrity Legal guy. TR is NOT in the business of helping people to pay less tax. So in this example if you file traditonal IRAs in full (ignoring treating them as capital gains situations or subject to 2023 valuable exemption) they're not going to complain especially if it results in you paying tax. Which is a reason to seek expert advice on such matters, but of course, at this point it's wise to consider that "experts" don't really know enough about many details yet to be worth their fees.

Lots to digest. If I decide to treat my IRA end of 2023 valuation as exempt, I would simply not file at all as that and Social Security (exempt) are my only remitting income. But of course they're seeing remittances from the banks, and if audited, unlike you, I would have very little confidence in asserting that 2023 valuation theory. I wouldn't really expect an audit at my modest levels of remittance. However, at some time in future I may need to remit a very large one time amount, and then I would see an audit as veering towards probable. I also find it very hard to believe that IRA withdrawals can validly be treated as profit/loss situations as are non retirement account investments. So I'm afraid my current still held understanding (basically from an online tax info source) is that: Withdrawals from Traditional IRAs are about the FULL amount (remitted), not capital gains. The 2023 exemption rule probably does NOT apply to retirement accounts That the income is viewed by TR as non-exempt PENSION income. My action now is that I won't do an IRA withdrawal until end of next year and before then I have a Thai tax lawyer in mind who I will consult with before remitting any of that . And/or this issue will become more clear over time with some kind of consensus info gleaned from the experience of others.

That's a theory but as it's closed it's understandable that people that previously ignored Thai taxation are feeling that it may be unwise to continue to do so. As I said before, we can't predict the enforcement going forward but now if you ignore when you actually are liable for tax, the audit letter might actually come, when before this you knew it wasn't coming.