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So what? I couldn't be bothered to do a test. Those tests are not very reliable anyway.

My symptoms started late at night on January 3rd, coughing with a runny nose. This is something I definitely caught on New Years Eve, I hadn't left the house for at least a week prior to NYE nor after. The Mrs then proceeded to develop a 'cold' about 3 days after me which suggests I caught it on NYE and she didn't, she caught it around Jan 6 - we were not in the same places for the entire night, I met up with her a few hours after I went out for the evening. So from observations I caught it on day 1, became symptomatic on day 4, the Mrs then became mildly symptomatic on day 6 Compared to when I was last infected in summer 2023 this one lacks any kind of fatigue, malaise / tiredness. In fact I feel normal apart from the runny nose and coughing which appears to be clearing the bronchial tubes of mucus so it has a productive cough and I'm taking an over the counter mucolytic (Ambroxol), the cough has now mostly gone but occasionally returns for a good 10 minutes at a time a few times a day but it's on its way out compared to last weeekend. My father has the same thing in the UK right now - he's had it worse than me and he did a test which tested positive. Same symptoms but with tiredness. I still believe this is on its journey to becoming classed as the 5th known cold caused by human coronaviruses but it's not quite there just yet. To put things into perspective - I have had worse colds in the past, they were not flu (that's much worse).

You absolutely were.

If you have a Thai TIN then are they notifying the Revenue Department of Thailand from a Thai bank? For sure if you have a TIN or not but don't tell your home countries bank then they're not sending anything anywhere as they won't know.

Well today is a kind of special day for Bitcoin if you follow it due to an ETF approval deadline in the US. In the future a huge proportion of Bitcoin will be traded on NASDAQ / NYSE and others assuming todays announcement goes the way people think it will. Officially one ETF either needs to be approved or rejected today (ARK) but there's about another 10 which have until March for approval - reported SEC movements all point towards them being approved at the same time which the good people over at ARK are probably not too pleased with - after all they got their ducks in a row first. Still - if 10 ETFs launch this week / next week for Bitcoin - everything changes and it's the beginning of a new era. TODAY!

Nonsense, and we're not all old and retired so there's a lot of stuff that will apply to a lot of people - not you perhaps but it will to me and it's important. So fack off and leave him alone.

Lol, I've been getting facebook ads for the various types of cannabis for some time now.

You're supposed to 'transfer' your entry and recent extension stamp over to the new passport at immigration but you can also take both the old and new passports with you when you leave. I last used the two passport method some time ago - like 13 years ago or something, since then I had another new passport and did the transfer at immigration during the covid lockdown periods.

Yeah perhaps, I think they might also report account throughput but can't remember for sure, was a while back when I looked at it in any detail. There's a lot of people who seem to think that whole transaction level bank statements are sent automatically - that's not what happens. There was also something different about the volume of the account and how it's treated, if you have got like less than a million (dollars I think) in or going through your foreign account in a single year then it's treated differently to the big guys. But what exactly are you talking about here? Thailand sending details to your 'home country' or your home countrys bank sending details to Thailand?

Once a year, account balances on accounts at end of year, now this is the important bit this will happen where you have told them that you're a Thai tax resident. If you have a bank account sitting in England with an English address on it like many of us do then they're not sending anything to anyone, ever.

Those two aren't mutually exclusive, they could quite easily both be true

Interesting that they seem to take a 'last in, first out' approach to the foreign account. I can't see them returning to the old style system but even if they do I guess simply paying whatever they deem due will get rid of any restrcition. I read elsewhere that there's something like a 3 year backlog of audits - are people supposed to wait 3 years and travel nowhere? For me it's going to be a very simple calculation, zero tax paid anywhere else so all remittances are taxable if I stay for more than 180 days and get a tax id. I will then pay whatever is due but I'm going to send a massively reduced amount of money in order to control how much I pay.

Nonsense

Perhaps you would like an audited statement of his account? Why? Are you looking for people to rob? That's the first 'vibe' I get when someone asks a question like this.

Yeah, that didn'thappen did it. I went to stock up on Cognac a few weeks back and the whole alcohol section at Gourmet Market was closed off during the prohibition hours. Not planning on drinking any of the stuff for days as I already had some left I couldn't help but feel the rule is somehwat returded.

In fact having read up on this a little more it does look like it was never an actual 'law' to begin with - just an interpretation / ruling by the RD at the time. In other words - this 'following year' thing which can be referred to as 'Resolution 2/2528' because that's what made it the rule back in 1985 is just a memo like the one they recently issued reverting it.

It is not easy to find information about this and why it came into being. I have been looking myself.

Correct, it's going to be interesting once the lawyers do get hold of this though. However I feel that won't happen until well inside 2025.

Not really, the law still stands. The law if I remember correctly is very specific about this subject, it's not some little oversight or loophole, it was addressed directly. Zero taxation from prior years. Signed. Sealed. Delivered. To change a law requires a vote in parliament and there hasn't been a vote, not yet anyway.

Yes, the only problem with that is that it seems to override a law which was voted on in parliament - and you can't do that with a memo.

I don't know anyone like that but you're right, there's definitely a lot of knuckle-draggers out there.

I wonder how many people who took lemsips also eventually died of it?

I went out for beers on New Years eve and developed a 'cold' on Jan 3, it's still going now but not too bad. It is however nothing like the one I had back in July which was considerably worse.

Ah, dual pricing, they don't like it do they?

lol, who cares