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I will purchase a new car one day and there's a good chance it won't be a Mercedes due to the irrational amount of attention they get from the local morons.

There's nothing special about a Mercedes at all, they're a very ordinary car - but not here, if I were ever to crash into someone I wouldn't want pictures of myself plastered all over the media just because I happened to be driving a Mercedes instead of say a Toyota camry.

On 4/26/2024 at 6:48 PM, Ralf001 said:

 

Wow ok 24yrs ago.

 

Sounds like piss poor planning from those whinging about it now !

Labour government in charge then, Tony Blair and his mob.

On 4/26/2024 at 4:24 PM, bkk6060 said:

Sounds like a terrible place the management should all be terminated.

It should be shut down for a year, that would make them learn.

Aren't these thing like rats which attack and tear your place apart if you so much as accidentally leave a window open?

Or are these particular 'monkeys' well behaved?

From what I've heard this is the kind of animal that gets chased away with a broom when it comes.

Then it steals the broom and tries to eat it while one of the accomplices is raiding your fridge and food cupboards.

I'm still taking the long holiday option and keeping my days below 180, I'll learn from the rest of you what happens.

I'm off to Cambodia soon.

Some people get ill and require hospital treatment. This has always been the way, always will be.

Nothing changes really, not in the grand scheme of things.....and for the most part, nobody cares.

4 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

A local official speculated that gases from the large heap of garbage possibly triggered the fire because of the exceptionally high temperatures that day.

Nonsense, it was caused by an arsonist. Always is.

2 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Giving visa free entry to the UK will result in a great many Thais staying and working illegally.

Well everyone else from around the world is at it so who really cares?

They reckon they need more people.

Also it's not my problem, they have border force who can sort out the miscreants.

2 hours ago, Goat said:

Does your country give 60 day free entry to Thais?

 

Nah

No they don't but perhaps they should do so.
 

Sow it, reap it, simple.

2 hours ago, BritManToo said:

Don't think they have 20TB ssd either.

You don't need a 20TB SSD.

There's nothing wrong with a few of these :

45 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Do they have 40TB ssd at a reasonable price?

Yes, of course, if you need 40 TB then you can get it for a reasonable price unless your need isn't really a need.

Just setup a RAID6 array with a bunch of 20+ TB drives and you have redundancy as well - that is my preferred config on a proper server and it can be done at home.

I did notice the price of these high end enterprise class drives was rising months back.

I doubt it's got much to do with AI.

12 minutes ago, Freddy42OZ said:

I'll be stuck if I can't access my money.

On 4/23/2024 at 2:09 PM, freeworld said:

Thai SEC urged crypto investors to withdraw their funds from unregistered platforms before the ban takes effect

There's your solution - withdraw it and use a local exchange.

I'm sure they have Bitcoin exchanges, if you must trade the absolute sh@t they have on Binance then do so and move the Bitcoin from there assuming Binance continue to allow to use it.

Remember, a 'ban' in any country will generally just cut off the banking system from sending and perhaps receiving wires from Binance but you can still normally use it. If you can't even use it then there are others.

What are we talking here? Unlicensed Thai exchanges or the major foreign exchanges like Bitstamp, Coinbase, Crypto.com and Kraken?

Yeah, and that guy in the picture definitely has at least 2 legs, perhaps more

4 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

It is not clear when or if the withholding tax will be implemented.

Right, so we're in agreement- there is no withholding tax, not at the moment.

3 minutes ago, Mike Lister said:

Which matches what was picked up and reported in the Simple Tax Guide.

 

58) Crypto transactions inside Thailand are subject to PIT on the gain amount, crypto transactions outside Thailand are charged on the amount brought into Thailand, when it is imported.

Yes, it's no different to any other income, they had plans to make it different but for one reason or another they all seem to have been abandoned.

I think it would help to have a reduced capital gains tax for crypto but the plans for that have long gone.

They're not taxing anything realised and remitted during non resident years, crypto or not.

56 minutes ago, stat said:

Great post! Thanks! This is the stuff and info we need!

That page is full of nonsense and years out of date information.

It begins with this

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Essential terms and requirements

1. The Revenue Department currently exempts the collection of 15% withholding tax.

That's wrong as it's been discontinued as has the VAT exemption between certain dates, it was cancelled completely.

It's hard to find any sources on this because people aren't talking about it much but the occasional announcement comes out that some government ministry has scrapped the VAT completely and the withholding tax.

It's probably more widely reported in the Thai language media than English language which is why it's hard to find this information.

There was also some talk of a 15% capital gain tax on crypto earnings, supposedly instead of income tax on the gains but that's also complete nonsense (not mentioned on that page), it's normal PIT rates all the way which can go to 35%.
 

49 minutes ago, BangkokReady said:

Did he actually stop breathing?  If not, chest-compressions are a bit risky.

There's so many red flags in this article it's kind of hard to process it.

Some people have seizures every day, sometimes multiple times each day, especially if they decide not to take their medication for one reason or another.

I can understand that those around them are scared but for the person who suffers from epilepsy / whatever it is that causes the seizures it's a day to day thing.

They don't need massaging or their chest pumping, those morons could have killed the poor guy.

Had they left him alone he may well have been ok after a bried period of recovery.

I had a friend who used to fall to the ground and bounce around for a minute or two every now and again while having a few beers, he had epilepsy, he just told us in advance that there's no need to do anything when it happens apart from make sure he doesn't bang his head into a wall while he's seizing......